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ourselves on the air here. Hey, Tom, how are you doing.
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It's good, yeah, I hear myself now. This is five d w
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c HS the Voice of Charleston and thanks for joining us this morning. Jeff
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Jenkins with you and Tom Peyton of the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro three oh
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four three four five fifty eight fifty eight three h four three four five fifty
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eight fifty eight. Any questions about the law I've been out of the Peyton
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seat for a couple of weeks. I was on vacation. Last week Chris
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was also I was doing the morning news, so it's good to be back.
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Good. Well, I'm glad your first. I think I missed your
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dad's predictions last week for the matter season. I don't know what he didn't
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hear it, So I did mine, okay with Dale a couple of weeks.
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Two. Okay, what we're yours? Six and six, six and
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six. I'm one hundred percent right now. You are right, you are,
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so I'll take and I'll probably be one hundred percent after this weekend.
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Yeah, okay, yeah, because you go one on one pit wins.
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Okay, we'll see you actually going to town next week, but I'll be
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back for the pit games. I'm gonna go up to Morgantown and watch it.
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I hope, we hope we perform well. I think the I think,
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uh, actually I missed. I'll admit I didn't see the entire first
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half of the Penn State game because I drove down to watch the Herd play.
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That was a real average performance by the Herd. But uh yeah,
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through significant part of the third quarter, we've only been down fourteen seven.
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You get a couple of breaks here there, if we got a turnover,
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you know, might pull something off. I thought that was and and I
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did predict we'd beat the spread, and I thought we were going to until
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Franklin ran the ball in with now whatever. Yeah, she seems like the
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old when I was a kid. It seems like I just coaches didn't douce.
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You were down constantly downing the ball at the end just to get cover
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with. But yeah, you know it was in a game. You know,
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they have playoff ratings that depend on margin of victory and all this other
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stuff, and then you have the seems like with all the sports betting now
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then you know you can't. Probably not, but it's unusual that he would,
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I think running in with almost no time left and that then put them
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over the spread a man. So yeah, uh, fans probably liked it
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for Penn State, but no, I think Dad's prediction though, although he's
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usually were pessimistic than me, I think when it makes it now he was
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eight and four, was he really? Yeah? Not a year which games
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because I wasn't listening, but I state, okay, so the next eleven
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they're going okay, So they're going to go eat and three in the next
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eleven Yeah. Wow, I hear the skepticism in your voice. Oh,
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we'll see. That would be an outstanding season, that's for sure. That
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would be that would probably save Oh, I would save his job, There's
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no doubt about it. That's why I was talking about Dale if they go
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six and said that would save his job too. You do think, yes,
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we were talking. Maybe it depends on who they beat tonight. I
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just really think the cause you show improvement, right, six and six shows
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improvement. Yeah, uh, certainly. I think six and six would be
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overachieving and would be something to be said for Neil Brown's ability to recover from
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a lot of lost players and piece things together in a in a difficult season
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where you can't tell recruits you'll be the coach sure the following year, and
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so that makes it hard. Now, But what do you mean, so
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if he goes six and six way one year contract again, I mean you're
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kind of get in the same situation, you know. If I think seven
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and five, yeah, he's probably keeping his job. Six and six,
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I don't know. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it how it
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plays out, But but I think a lot of it hinges on the pit
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game. It's just such an important game to the fans and to everybody else.
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And so you know, if he can if that, if they goes
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six and six and he beats a pit then maybe knocks off one of the
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Texas Tech TCUs after that those are both important, right, yeah, Texas
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Tech TCU, all the TCUs. You know, after they got beat this
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past, we can look. It won't be a significant of an upset if
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we can win. But you know, you can beat a couple of the
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old time you know, traditional powers in the Big Twelve. That helps if
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you go through and you know, beat Pitt, but then you just kind
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of beat the newcomers in the Big twelve. And maybe who else, whoever
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else from the old Big twelve is on the bottom. Then I don't know,
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six and six may not keep his job. But let me ask you
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this, and we get started here, Tom Peyton with the Peyton law from
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a Nitro. Any questions about the law, Tom can answer it be in
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an autobile accident, yes, go ahead, hold that thought, interrupt you.
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But one of the things, you know, when you listen to our
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show, you get some legal information and some mildly entertaining commentary helpfully, but
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you also get some giveaways, so, oh, good give away. I
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didn't hear it because he's out of out of town this week and I have
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a conflict this weekend, so we neither one of us can go and use
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our tickets in Morgantown. So we are going to give away our four season
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tickets. It's section two sixteen, press box, side row five, great
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section about forty yard line. It's really you're not close because you're on the
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second level, but you're near the front of the second level when you can
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see the game. Really you see everything. Yeah, you see both sides.
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You can see all the actions. So it's a it's a good spot
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to sit if you really want to see what's going on in the game.
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It's not a great spot to see if you want to be as close as
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you can, like to the bench or something. But and we have a
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bluelot pass to go with it. So here's what it's really difficult to do.
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I like to do drawings, announce it the week draw the name mal
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Now didn't anticipate it, so we didn't get it done. But we'll do
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a little trivia here and I think I've done this question before, but it
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would have been years. So okay, all right, okay, But so
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dad, Harvey D. Peyton played for the Mountaineers. I think he like
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maybe back then they just had like a like the freshman weren't able to play
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with the main team or something. Maybe he played on the freshman team.
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But he played in a Blue Gold spring game in Charleston and it was the
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Bobby balltin era. Okay, and so here will be our trivia question,
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And what number did Harvey Peyton wear in that Blue Gold game? Jersey number?
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Is that on Google somewhere. I don't know if I knew this,
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well, I'll tell you where how I know it. So he played he
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played freshman football there went out for freshman football. Yeah, he was on
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the team. So just the one year, yeah, I think he or
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maybe he played on the freshman team and then when it came to sophomore year,
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maybe he started, not started on the field, but it was on
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the team and then didn't didn't finish it. But the reason I know is
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because we have a really nice framed poster like has the roster on it,
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and I guess maybe it was an ad for the game back. Yeah,
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yeah, but it's got the list of the roster and it's got his number
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right there in our lobby at our office. Okay, he can slide by.
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And he played, he played in the Gold Blue game right at that
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spring he's freshman, yes, and back then also get they played it in
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Charleston Lately. Yeah, I assume, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
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think it even. I think it's it was called Lately Field back then.
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Okay, yeah, I think it's on that poster. Sure, if you
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can give us his phone or his jersey number and during that game, then
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uh, these four tickets in the fucking pass. Okay, we got somebody
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on the line already. All right, well all right for okay, all
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right, so this is she has to give the number, jersey number,
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jersey number. Okay, we're going to the line. Give me your name
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please. First of all, Oh, this is this is Leddie. What
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was I had to radio term down? What was the player? He's a
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player? Oh he was Harvey Payton. He was Harvey Payton at the Payton
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Law firm in Nitro. Did you know how much I've only been here there
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once? Alright? Alright, okay, all right, all, okay,
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we'll pot you down. Now, if you're near the office, you can
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drive over there and pop inside the front door. But all right, yeah,
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no, Dad's Harvey D. Peyton, p e Y tubouy out there.
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The only things now, Yeah, would that roster be somewhere? I
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don't know, I don't know. You know, I never would have thought
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of it. So it's just been in our lobby for fifteen years. And
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okay, but I think I can you give a position? Can you want
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to give a position? Give it a tackle? A tackle? Yeah?
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So that all offensive tackle? Right? Okay, offensive tackle? Yes?
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Offensive. It was surprising because I look at that roster nineteen sixties, what
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was late sixties? Late sixties? Yeah, Bobby Bowden was a head coach,
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right, that's right, Yeah, I think Bobby was, did he
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sixty nine? Was he an assistant? First in the heat the car might
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have still been. I think he was the head coach. He was the
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head coach where that would be because Carmen coaches sixty nine Peach Bowl, right,
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right? Maybe he was an assistant then maybe he was assistant. I
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know Bobby Bowden's name is on the poster as a member of the coaching staff.
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All right, So mighty Carlin, because your dad would he's undergrad end
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did then he went to law school seventy one to seventy four. How about
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that? Okay, there's a real good clue, all right, saying one
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setting four in law school, so that would mean he was they're in sixty
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seven. But it's surprising when you look on that now. Of course,
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dad's big when he was sixty three, and which I guess back then was
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good size. Dad was offensive line size right now. It was six it
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was yeah, yeah, yeah. He went to Saint Albums and went on
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and played in Morgantown. It's funny when you look at that roster because I
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know quite a few of the guys on there, and I know what they
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look like now, and they're like linemen and things, and I'm like,
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oh boy, that guy's only yeah, five eleven. Yeah, he was
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playing either defensive or offensive linemen for the Mountaineers, which shows how it's all
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changed. Oh yeah, astronomically as far as Okay, so we're taking the
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call three or four three four five fifty eight fifty eight, give Ryan our
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producer your name, three or four three four five fifty eight fifty So who
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are looking for the jersey number of Harvey Peyton in that spring game at Laidley
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Field in the late sixties. Right, I don't think he played. He
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didn't play in a mean, that's his only number. So it's not like
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that's not a trick that he had a special number for that game, because
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I don't. I think that was just his number. Okay, now we
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really Now we have a law question. Okay, okay from John. John,
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you're on the air, Go ahead with Tom good Morning at Tom good
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Morning. I have a couple of questions about a person who dies without a
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will. I guess my first question is how does how does anybody know that
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in terms of transferring property and that sort of thing. Yeah, so when
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when a person? So when I have folks come in my office and we
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do their estate planning, and I give them their wills or power attorneys and
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originals, I basically tell them that with few exceptions, only an original will
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will work when you pass away can be admitted to probate. So I tell
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them keep take these originals and don't ever get them out again unless you don't
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want them in more, put them in a nice safe at home or a
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safety deposit box at the bank, and I get copy so they can always
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keep that in their desk drawer and get it out and remember what it says.
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But you really should never get your original will out again unless you don't
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want it, because if you pass away and folks can't find your original will,
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you probably just don't have a will. So you know, if you
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keep it in one of those two places, I tell the family members,
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here's what I told them, so hopefully they put it there, and then
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sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. But I think I think your questionnaire
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was like a practical question, right, Like as far as whether the person
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has a will or not, it's just what or somebody. Now, there's
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a law it says if you have in your possession an original will of somebody
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who passed away, you were supposed to turn it into the Fiduciary Supervisor's office
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or the County Commission within thirty days I believe of that person's death. Now,
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it doesn't mean you have to be the executor where you have to do
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anything with it other than you turn it in like you would come if somebody
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passes away in Kinall County, you happen to have Uncle Bob's original will then
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and you don't want to probate it or do anything with it, then you
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can. You still need to bring it down here and do what they call
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it lodging it. And then there's a vault or something that they have that
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all these wills are lodged, and then if anybody needs to open the estate
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later, they can come and that will is always there and they can go
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probate it. But if you can't find a will, then you probate the
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estate without one, and then sometimes wills pop up later and it becomes more
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complicated depending on how far the estate administration is gone. So every every death
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requires a probate of their estate. No, that is not true. So
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if if if and people say, well the courthouse told me this, the
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cordolse told me that, and they come to me after the fact. Probably
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the cortose is a building and it just tests people that work in it.
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So they finish a supervisor's office, for example, in Canal County, they
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have some ladies that work there have been there for a long time. They're
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they're really good, but they get hammered with a million questions because a lot
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of people don't have lawyers, so they're trying. They can't give legal advice,
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but they can give some information, and there's a gray area in between.
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And so you know, if you're trying to figure out whether to probate
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someone to stead or not, I advise you give a lawyer a call or
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call us before you do it, because no, you don't have to probate
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in a state necessarily. It all depends on what the assets are and how
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they're titled. I mean, if everything's jointly held and nothing really goes through
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inheritance or probate other than some personal items that don't really have market value,
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then there's no real reason to probate the estate. But if you have land
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that passes through probate or intestate or mineral interests or something like that, then
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you then you have to probate it in order to pass title to that real
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to the land to real property. But now you don't. They're most people
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you do have to probate their estate because there's some asset that requires probate.
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But for example, if somebody has a released small bank account under five grands
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somewhere you need access. There's actually an if a data that can be drafted
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based on a stringent code that will allow the bank maybe to distribute that without
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the necessity of opening in a state. Because you got to watch tunnel vision
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two. I just have one another day. Somebody wanted to get in a
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safety deposit box, so they opened an a state for that purpose. But
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that's all they were thinking about. Now they're stuck in an a state trying
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to administer it, and there's no money there, and there's a bunch of
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creditors. So and of course, as has happened one hundred percent of the
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time, when when I've done the states, we're all waiting to see what's
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in the safety deposit box. There wasn't anything exciting in there. So they've
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they've now burdened themselves with a lot of time and money being spent on a
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state that probably never should have been probated in the first place. John's that
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help you here? Well, I'm wondering if my brother dies, I know
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he doesn't have a will and that his estate goes to probate, how do
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I find out who's the probate judge or the probate person is? Is that
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in the public record? Yeah, so's it's it's basically non judicial. But
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once thirty days passes and nobody's been appointed over the estate, anybody can open
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the estate, like I could open it for somebody I'm not related to.
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A creditor could open it because they want to press their claim on the assets.
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But once somebody's appointed by the Fiduciary Supervisor's office that's basically the probate office
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in West Virginia, and we don't have a pro we're non judicial. Mean,
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every transaction isn't governed by a judge. It's all under the I guess
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the umbrella of the County Commission, but it's not really monitored. You don't
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have to seek court approval for a lot of transactions when you're over in an
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estate. But everything that's done at the Fiduciary Supervisor's office, and in particular
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whether if somebody's appointed over in a state without a will, all that those
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documents with them recorded the same place deeds are recorded. And so you can
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go to the old cordose here and type in the name of the deceased person
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and see if an estate's been open. Now, if you're not a statutory
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beneficiary, then you may not get mailed notice of it. So you're gonna
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have to keep monitoring it to see what's going on. But that's so all
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of that's public record and you'll see it. And that's how even without a
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will, during the estate process, the person appointed over the estate as the
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administrator will file a document called an appraisement form. Not an appraisal, but
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an appraisement form. It's supposed to list basically everything the person owned who passed
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away, approximate values when they passed away, and then you can apply that
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to who the heirs are, which is also a public record, and see
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who inherited the land by those documents that are recorded, so you don't need
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generally like a new deed or anything. There will be documents recorded at the
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courthouse. If somebody probates in a state where a person owns land, that
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should let the public know who owns it now as a result of that person's
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death. Okay, John, do you think? Okay? Good? All
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right? Recall, well, take our break. It's eight thirty eight on
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five when you SEEHS the voice of Charleston. Tom Peyton's here at the Peyton
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tickets to the Mountaineer game on Saturday. If you can guess what number Harvey
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and it might just be a pure guess actually what number Harvey was in the
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late nineteen sixty spring game for the Mountaineers at Laidley Field. And I'm not
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sure how they do that, but yeah, even back then they had the
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different you know, you had to have certain numbers for linen. IM sure
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that they're ineligible downfield, same range of not yeah, exactly exactly. I
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wanted to ask Tom a question. This is huge national story. Legally,
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it's one of these things that just captivates people. That's Alex Myrdole. Oh
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yeah, you know you're South. You know you're you spent some time in
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South Carolina, right, and so, but now you know this a lot
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of people know about it, you know, convicted of killing his son and
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his wife. I haven't watched the documentaries on it. Yeah, I completely
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play out before I watch it, but just to fantastical and unfortunate story of
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just he got addicted to drugs and then where he kind of controlled the county
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he had been he's his family. Grandfather was the prosecutor that gets carried on,
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carried on kind of a rural county in South Carolina, and so,
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uh, he had a lot of power and he exploited it basically. And
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he's a lawyer, so he he committed almost every type of unethical, uh
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breach of trust type of including including murder maybe of his including settling cases and
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then not giving the clients just small percentage of the money that he got,
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that's right, and even even I think in one case maybe with the housekeeper,
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even you know, setting up the factual scenario to build the case about
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how she allegedly fell downstairs and then at his house, but then representing you
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know, obvious conflicts and then just stealing outright stealing from from clients or former
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clients, and then ultimately culminated in a trial where he was alleged to have
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killed his son and wife. Right, and then he claimed he didn't do
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it, but his chory story changed every time. But yeah, now we've
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got an issue with the juror, right, with the clerk, with with
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the clerks books deal supposedly, yes, that's it they're claiming, alady,
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Yeah, he does have a book. Yes she already published the right and
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there's she shows her mountain. If there's anything. She says she wanted him
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convince because she knew he was guilty and her biggest concern was that he didn't
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get convicted, and said the clerk and a jury trial, you know,
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a lot of times you'll see the actual clerk, not the deputy clerk,
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come up for jury trials because I like to mingle with the jurors and their
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constituents and things like that, and so they'll, you know, you get
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a jury there and like maybe the clerk along with the bailiff, is the
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one that kind of ushers him into the jury room and here you go this
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way and go get your lunch and come back. So there's some there's some
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interaction there between jurors and the clerk and uh, you know, going down
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hallway, sitting around. So there's allegations now that this clerk was making commentary
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to the jurors that could have influenced the jurors because she was letting them know
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that mister Mordahal's a liar and he needs to be convicted and that kind of
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thing. So and you really can't you gotta be real neutral at that point.
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Now I think Pope's in a book later saying I think he was guilty
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and I was worried he was going to be found not guilty. I'm not
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sure that's improper, but that just reinforces what it all is now alleging,
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is that she improperly influenced the jury panel to make for a better book.
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Yes, because she's she's working on a book. She's thinking about that in
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her mind as opposed to what her job is, which I mean, there's
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nothing wrong with thinking in your mind you're going to publish a book about this
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later. But you certainly can't make improper statements to jurors about the evidence in
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the case or the character of a person. So I guess the judge will
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have to hold a hearing, right probably sometimes if they think that I read
24:30
the article on that. And if the judge thinks that, well, even
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what Murdall is arguing isn't enough to grant a new trial into this circumstance,
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he might rule on it without without a hearing, because they've attached alfidavits,
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and you assume that's probably might be the best evidence they have is what they
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filed with their motion. If it judge thinks that's not enough, they won't
24:49
have a hearing. But if there's enough there in those affidavits to warrant it
24:53
to bring it into question, then they'll probably have an evidence. You're hearing,
24:56
they might bring her in and ask her what she said. And there's
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affidavits or at least two of them I think are by folks that served on
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the jury or were on the initial jury panel who claimed they had some comments
25:07
from her. And the South Carolina is different, of course, every state's
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different with their appeals. And I think you actually appealed to the attorney general
25:15
or something like that. I didn't see that. Well, well, the
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the attorney general will be handling appeal for so they maybe not a not quite
25:26
filing an appeal. It maybe appealing to the attorney genre. Like, you
25:30
need to look at this because as we you know, the prosecutors and attorney
25:33
generals are supposed to do justice and stuff. They see a problem later that
25:37
they agree as legitimate. It's not really their job just to fight it squirsed
25:41
earth. If they think there was really an evidentiary problem and it was not
25:45
a fair trial, they should concede and granted trial. But you got different
25:48
issues. I mean, maybe her conduct was improper, but it's not sufficient
25:52
enough to warrant a new trial because the evidence was so overwhelming anyway. I
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mean, there can be what they call harmless air, and then there's there
26:00
can be something's maybe not harmless, but it's not so so bad that it
26:06
tainted the trial and resulted in a legally unfair trial to mister Murdoch. So
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there's a lot of dynamics to it. But definitely a very interesting situation and
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definitely an issue that I've seen over the year because you also have you know,
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you get folks that if you're always asking when you're serving a jury in
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West Virginia, least did you ask to be on this jury? Because they're
26:25
trying to somebody trying to get on here, you know, well, usually
26:27
it'll be hecked. No, most people want to go back to work,
26:30
are their regular lives versus getting paid forty bucks a day to sit in the
26:34
courthouse. Yeah, we had a case here one time somebody asked to get
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not too long ago, you asked to get on a jury or something something
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close to that. Yeah, And you really can't let them on that if
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they answered the question but one of these big, high profile cases, whether
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people are thinking of media, book deals, how can I profit off this?
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That's a bigger concern these days, maybe than it was before, because
26:53
there's been jurors that have come out afterwards and I think done articles, interviews
26:57
and books based on what happened. I mean, if they want to.
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In West Virginia, once the term of court ends, which is normally three
27:03
months, jurors are free to talk to Lawyers can call jurors and old cases
27:07
and ask what they thought. I've done that multiple times where I've lost or
27:12
partially lost a case, particularly in a criminal case, and then we get
27:15
a retrial awarded for some air and I'll call the jurors and tell them they
27:19
don't have to talk to me, but hey, can you tell me what
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was important to you and that other trial and what you guys were talking about.
27:26
And we usually get a couple that I want to talk to ken It's
27:29
interesting to see what they were thinking about because you figure you're going to the
27:30
next trial, right, here's what I need to concentrate on because that's what
27:33
was important to the previous twelve. Sure, let me ask you a question.
27:37
Tom Peyton's worth this Peyton Law firm in Nitro three or four three four
27:40
five fifty eight fifty eight. Three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty
27:44
eight lines are open. All right, we get this question off the air
27:47
from a caller. How can an insurance provider subpoena a patient without violating HIPPA?
27:55
Well, okay, so that's so if you're in subpoena is they're normally
28:00
issued when you're in litigation, Like I can't just go issue a subpoena because
28:04
I want to get Jeff Jenkins medical records. There's got to be a case
28:07
filed. Now. In civil cases, lawyers can issue subpoenas without having to
28:12
go through the court. I can sign a subpoena asking for documents. Now,
28:15
if I do that and I'm seeking documents from a third party like a
28:19
hospital, I have to send notice I'm doing that to the opposition. And
28:26
now, whether you can subpoena someone's medical records and you don't have a hip
28:32
a compliant authorization to get those records from the patient is a gray area in
28:37
West Virginia. I think that Now, if you're seeking the opponent's medical records
28:45
to subpoena those and the opponent refuses to give a medical authorization to let you
28:48
do it. You know, when you go to serve that subpoena, you've
28:51
got to send notice to their decide you're doing it. Then that patient slash
28:56
party in the litigation can go to court and say, hey, they can't
29:00
access those records, they don't have a release, and this subpoena should be
29:03
quashed. So that's how you do it. If you're a third party and
29:08
not involved in the case and they're subpoena in your medical records, that's different.
29:12
I mean, if I was trying to do that, I would certainly
29:15
send notice to the patient so they would have an opportunity to object if they
29:18
wanted to. But yeah, a lawyer can send a subpoena during a case
29:23
if there's relevant or potentially relevant medical records. They just have to give notice
29:27
to the appropriate parties so they have an opportunity to object to it. So
29:33
that's now normally. Normally in litigation, the lawyers will work it out so
29:40
that either the patient's attorney will just gather the records and send them to the
29:42
opposition, or or you know, they'll sign a limited authorization and just give
29:48
it to the defense lawyer, who then can use that to gather a limited
29:52
set of records that are relevant to the case. Sometimes there's protective orders entered
29:56
so that if they're particularly sensitive, like maybe psychological records or something, then
30:02
all parties and lawyers are ordered not to distribute or discuss what's in those records
30:07
without permission of the court. And you would you would entertain a call to
30:12
your office still with that question? Sure, yeah, yeah, if they
30:15
want to call three or four, seventy five, fifty five, if they're
30:18
the subject of that and have concerns, then yes, it might be something
30:21
we can help them with. Yeah, three five, All right, Okay,
30:25
we've got Greg on the line and wants to try for the tickets,
30:26
right, Okay, Greg, can you give us Harvey Peyton's Jersey number?
30:32
Yes? Would every number seventy three, seventy three close, close, and
30:38
if we don't get another, well, Greg, what we'll do is,
30:42
if we don't get into the call with the correct answer, since you were
30:45
the first one to actually guess a number, we'll give them to you.
30:48
If we get through this broadcast and nobody calls him with the right number,
30:51
how about that? Okay? Greg? Thanks a lot. All right,
30:52
all right, all right, good, okay. So yeah, so the
30:56
question is still out there, what number did Harvey where in that spring?
31:00
Did he get in? I guess he got into the game. Did he
31:03
get into the game. He got into the game. I think I don't
31:04
know if he got as much playing time as he wanted. And I don't
31:07
know the story necessarily. I think Dad said, you know, it was
31:10
just you know, he's trying to go to school. Maybe he had to
31:11
work, and you know, it's just so time consuming and rough. Frankly,
31:18
get a lot of injuries and you're sore and all that, and so
31:21
he did he stopped. But but he did put on the old golden Blue
31:25
for a time. Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah he was.
31:27
He was there very good. Three or four three four five fifty eight
31:32
fifty eight three or four three four five fifty fifty eight. Noticed yesterday that
31:37
the both the Intermediate Court of Appeals and the State Supreme Court opened their fall
31:42
sessions. Yeah, they're rolling her some arguments, no new opinions yet,
31:47
and yeah, they've actually got their docket published I think through mid October for
31:52
the Supreme Court, and I think maybe Intermediate Court has it through into September
31:56
or something like that. Nothing, nothing coming up yet. We don't.
32:00
I don't think we have any real politically hot cases up point Supreme Court yet.
32:06
So yeah, we'll see, we'll see. Give us a call.
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Three or four three four five fifty eight fifty eight three or four three four
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five fifty eight fifty three or four three four five fifty fifty. Notice the
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city of Hurricane got involved in. I mean, there's there's disgusting Hurricane and
32:22
the Putnam kind of Commission. I'm a Putnam County school board. This week
32:25
there's you know, yeah, there was a you're talking about the don't what
32:30
is that the non drag? Well, yeah, it's like don't let don't
32:34
let anybodyder eighteen yeah, perform or something right, Yeah, the Putnam kind
32:38
of Commission passed something that just had months back and then now, so what
32:42
happened was what I understand happened, Uh particular Hurricane High School. They I
32:51
don't know this came from the board or from the principal or what, but
32:54
they had like maybe rainbows and all. This is an all inclusive safe spece
33:00
or something which I guess has to do that generally was lgbtqu oriented safe space
33:09
and so for whatever reason, although I didn't I don't know if there was
33:15
a problem or a complaint, but you know, the school administration went and
33:20
removed all of those signs and that kind of thing. And then I guess
33:23
when I asked, it was something about you can't have political or religious I
33:28
think an existing board of policy. Yes, it's not an old policy,
33:31
just a reinterpretation apparently of this new policy, which sounds like it's I don't
33:36
know why that they're viewing it as political that somebody might be homosexual and feel
33:42
marginalized and might want a safe place. I'm not following that, but that's
33:46
the current situation, so I'm kind of monitoring that. We'll see how it
33:50
goes. I mean, I think they're relying on that old policy or whatever's
33:54
borderline. So we'll see. If you know, the old Board of Education
33:58
in Putnam County and gets themselves another lawsuit, you know, they might they
34:01
might have they might violate somebody's rights. I don't know. Well, in
34:05
the city her can basically just pass kind of a mirror ordinance too that the
34:07
county did, yeah, unanimously. I mean, just you know, Putton
34:12
County does really well. I mean it's I think a lot of it has
34:15
to do with the we're only one places that other than Morgantown at eastern Panhandle
34:21
where Mon County I guess where population increased in the most recent census. But
34:25
and that's good. But you know, a lot of it I think has
34:28
to do a geographic location. I mean, it's flat area right centrally located
34:32
between Huntington and Charleston, and so it's a great place to to live and
34:37
you can commute to Boast, the major city, two of the major cities
34:40
in our all valley region. But that's certainly not a move. I think
34:46
it's going to really cause additional population increases Putton County. Mike's on the line,
34:52
wants to take a guess on the jersey, but if he gets it
34:54
right, he doesn't want the tickets, so they will default to Greg Mike.
35:00
Where you got hey, Jeffrey, Hey, I'm just going to take
35:05
a shot in the dark here, Just him kind of intrigued, was he
35:08
U? Seventy seven? No oh no, okay, good time, all
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right, good good good talk. Thanks for letting me try talk to your
35:17
later, buddy. Appreciate it. All right, three or four, three,
35:20
four five. He wasn't seventy three. But Tom's quote there, his
35:24
tease was, that's close. He wasn't seventy three. They're both in the
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right if you call it decade, but they have yeah, right, right,
35:34
seventies. He's in the set. Yeah, he's in the seventies.
35:37
He was in. He wore the jersey in the seventies three or four,
35:39
three, four, five, fifty eight fifty eight for the spring game at
35:44
Laidley Field. So I guess they got on a bus. And a little
35:45
bit of when was when when ladley Field was even built? I always built
35:50
way back it was yeah, yeah, didn't then it went, then it
35:53
underwent the big When was that probably late seven? Yeah, then the refurbishing.
36:02
Yeah, it was like eighty, like early eighty. I forget what
36:06
the date was when they basically knocked it all down and redid the whole thing.
36:08
Okay, you know that was like early eighties, late seventies. I
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don't remember the original I guess, yeah, yeah, I wat my one
36:15
little story about the original I the original one was there must have been like
36:19
in the like Robert Alexander, the late Robert Alexander was our car. I
36:23
was. I was with a friend and the car car broke down right right
36:28
above it on the interstate on seventy seven and it was on a Friday night,
36:31
and Robert Alexander was playing there and we were there maybe thirty minutes,
36:37
maybe a half hour. He scored like six touchdowns. He played for South
36:43
Charleston. You played for Seuth Charleston. So anyway, so on our tickets,
36:45
because we're gonna wrap it up here. So Greg got was the closest
36:49
unless something I can call in the next twenty seconds, three or four,
36:52
three, four five, fifty fifty. Greg was the closest. He can
36:54
call the office. Yeah, he was called the office. I didn't bring
36:57
the tickets or the past with me this year. Their actual physical ticket it
37:00
again instead of electronics. So they're going that way, I think. And
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yeah, we'll have him at the office. Oh, Eddie's on the law,
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Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, can you guess it? Eddie? Yeah,
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I'm gonna go with seventy two right right? Okay? Three or four
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three if if Ryan can take one more, call three or four three four
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five. If not, we gotta wrap this up because we've got about twenty
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seconds all right, Peyton Law Firm and Nitro. Yeah, you give us
37:23
a call there at three or four seventy five five five five five six,
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or go visit us at our website, which you're revamping right now. The
37:30
old one's still on there, but we'll have a nice new, uh more
37:35
user friendly website maybe here in a couple of months. But Peyton Law Firm
37:37
dot com, all right, Peyton Lawford dot com. Greg called the office
37:40
because you had called earlier and you were the closest, so he was the
37:44
first caller. He's the first caller. Yeah, Tom, good to see
37:45
it. So I guess number seventy one, oh, number seventy one.
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There we go, the great seventy one. Remember that real close. We'll
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