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- 1:11Speaker 4: West Virginia, Tom, Good morning. How you doing this morning?
- 1:14Speaker 4: I'm doing okay, I can't. I guess I need a
- 1:15Speaker 4: be turn your mic one.
- 1:16Speaker 5: Well you don't have to, but that'll help.
- 1:18Speaker 4: It helps it.
- 1:19Speaker 5: Doing well. Glad to be here. Brave the cold.
- 1:21Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, man, I am tired of the cold.
- 1:23Speaker 5: I am too. And the good thing. I think it's
- 1:24Speaker 5: gonna be like thirty degrees today and it's all relative.
- 1:27Speaker 4: Uh.
- 1:28Speaker 5: You know, when you've been in ten degree weather then
- 1:30Speaker 5: all of a sudden thirty seven.
- 1:32Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly true.
- 1:33Speaker 5: Like when Dad and I would go, you know, way
- 1:35Speaker 5: up north in the summertime on our fishing trips. Haven't
- 1:38Speaker 5: gone in years, but uh, you know, it's pretty chilly
- 1:42Speaker 5: up there. We go in August and see snow sometimes.
- 1:45Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:45Speaker 5: But the fishing guides that lived up there, you know,
- 1:48Speaker 5: we're on a boat on thirty miles per hour. It's
- 1:50Speaker 5: forty degrees. I'm bundled up and they're wearing short sleeves. Fine,
- 1:56Speaker 5: because they're just used to it. Your body gets used
- 1:58Speaker 5: to it so quickly, and then I know one place
- 2:00Speaker 5: they're not used to. It is Baton Rouge, where my
- 2:02Speaker 5: son goes to school. They've canceled everything for the entire
- 2:05Speaker 5: Yeah snow, yeah.
- 2:07Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure when you're in an area and it's
- 2:08Speaker 4: not used of getting that for sure, kids neat.
- 2:10Speaker 5: I don't know if they've had that snow. I don't
- 2:12Speaker 5: know how long it's been. It's almost inconceivable. But they
- 2:17Speaker 5: did contract some snowplows out of Indiana to go down
- 2:20Speaker 5: and help clear the snow, and it'll melt off in
- 2:22Speaker 5: a day or so. But it was Code red down there.
- 2:26Speaker 5: You know, word power is going to go out and
- 2:28Speaker 5: things like that.
- 2:29Speaker 4: But the nice thing about it here this morning is
- 2:32Speaker 4: it's cold. It's cold. It's not quite as cold as
- 2:34Speaker 4: I think. It's in like ten instead of six or whatever.
- 2:37Speaker 4: You know, right, it's not negative like it or whatever. Yeah,
- 2:39Speaker 4: it's gonna warm up.
- 2:40Speaker 5: And that's the one good thing about living here in
- 2:44Speaker 5: our in our climbate are the seasons. And it does
- 2:47Speaker 5: cause you to you know, those first seventy degree days
- 2:51Speaker 5: and maybe late March or just some of the best.
- 2:54Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I tell you, will you anticipate those Our
- 2:56Speaker 4: boys are out there today. If you've listened to these stations.
- 2:58Speaker 4: We're having the side drop Radio thign today and that's
- 3:01Speaker 4: where we're collecting socks for the needy folks. So our
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- 3:07Speaker 4: If you want to drop off socks, you can do that.
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- 3:10Speaker 4: have to get out of your car. We have folks
- 3:11Speaker 4: there from Union Mission that can make that happen. You
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- 3:23Speaker 4: until six o'clock to donate brand new packs of socks,
- 3:26Speaker 4: cash or checks to benefit Union Mission. Your support will
- 3:28Speaker 4: provide warmth and care to those in need this winter.
- 3:31Speaker 4: Don't wait, you can stop by today. We'll be here
- 3:33Speaker 4: until six o'clock this evening collecting socks around our look cass.
- 3:36Speaker 5: The parking lot was occupied there with some tents and
- 3:40Speaker 5: station emblazon trucks.
- 3:43Speaker 4: But news socks right yeah, only so Robril, who is
- 3:47Speaker 4: his second time back here with our morning station over
- 3:49Speaker 4: or with our country station on KBS. But he came
- 3:53Speaker 4: with several different charitable events that he likes to do
- 3:56Speaker 4: in the areas where he's in and this is one
- 3:58Speaker 4: of the ones that he brings collecting socks for people
- 4:00Speaker 4: that need it during the cold winter time. It's a
- 4:02Speaker 4: nice it's a nice thing to do.
- 4:04Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't know what was happening. I would have
- 4:06Speaker 5: brought some socks with me.
- 4:08Speaker 4: That's all right. There's lots of stuff going on we
- 4:10Speaker 4: can talk about.
- 4:11Speaker 5: Yeah, le legal news all around here real locally. We've
- 4:14Speaker 5: got what the media is kind of labeling the child
- 4:18Speaker 5: trafficking case. I don't know what all that. There's a
- 4:21Speaker 5: multitude of charges. I think they had a superseding indictment,
- 4:24Speaker 5: meaning they charged these folks via the grand jury and
- 4:27Speaker 5: then charge them with something different after the initial grand
- 4:30Speaker 5: jury indicted them. But this is the I think their
- 4:32Speaker 5: lastings white Feather and Lance a man a woman married.
- 4:35Speaker 5: I think yeah, I think they're married, and and it's
- 4:39Speaker 5: it's moved at a pretty rapid pace getting to this point.
- 4:41Speaker 5: I think it was only around last year when they
- 4:43Speaker 5: were arrested and they were allegations that they had well,
- 4:48Speaker 5: they had either foster or adopted children, like five of
- 4:53Speaker 5: them and the parents are white and the children are
- 4:56Speaker 5: African American and they were found in with the media's
- 5:01Speaker 5: kind of character as it deplorable conditions or maybe locked
- 5:04Speaker 5: in a shed, and so the parents were charged with
- 5:09Speaker 5: various crimes and including child trafficking. I assume there's some
- 5:13Speaker 5: kind of abuse and neglect criminal charges filed in the
- 5:16Speaker 5: case and nothing. That case has been in a jury
- 5:18Speaker 5: trial since the beginning of last week, and the prosecutor
- 5:24Speaker 5: arrested their case. Of course, they had. It's funny technology,
- 5:27Speaker 5: so you have video from around the home. I think
- 5:31Speaker 5: it was out in Systamville and maybe a farm type property.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Certainly there was a shed or a barn or something,
- 5:38Speaker 5: and within them they have these security cameras that click
- 5:42Speaker 5: on with motion, may be into or sound. So they
- 5:44Speaker 5: have snippets of videos of the children out there and
- 5:46Speaker 5: the parents. So I think they got directly from the
- 5:51Speaker 5: camera manufacturer. It's all web based, so they were able
- 5:54Speaker 5: to go and get up. But it doesn't the problem
- 5:57Speaker 5: the prosecutor may have is it doesn't continuously record. It
- 6:01Speaker 5: will record snippets and so you don't get the whole
- 6:05Speaker 5: story necessarily. I have them, and I know that sometimes
- 6:09Speaker 5: there's movement or sound, they don't even click on and
- 6:11Speaker 5: record at all, or movement will continue to occur, but
- 6:14Speaker 5: they go ahead and cut the snippet off, so you
- 6:17Speaker 5: get a twenty second clip where somebody been moving around
- 6:20Speaker 5: or milling around for ten minutes or something.
- 6:23Speaker 4: It could be frustrated. It's actually one of the reasons
- 6:25Speaker 4: I went out and got new cameras that record continuously,
- 6:28Speaker 4: so they trigger you on events, but you can go
- 6:31Speaker 4: back to that event and then you can watch an
- 6:33Speaker 4: hour before it if you want to, until it gets there,
- 6:34Speaker 4: and it really helps out on stuff like that.
- 6:36Speaker 5: So what will I mean? This was got a lot
- 6:39Speaker 5: of media attention, and of course the media, like it
- 6:42Speaker 5: does generally, is it's the most sensational points and that's
- 6:47Speaker 5: not evidence, so it sounds like really heinous conduct. The
- 6:52Speaker 5: children testified, I think one of them has turned eighteen,
- 6:56Speaker 5: a girl, so she was able to take justify as
- 7:00Speaker 5: an adult and pretty consistent with what the prosecutor has alleged,
- 7:05Speaker 5: I believe. But then it turned over to the defense side.
- 7:08Speaker 5: You know, sometimes you don't see the defense put on
- 7:10Speaker 5: any witnesses because they don't have to prove anything, and
- 7:14Speaker 5: whether to put if you're defending someone as the attorney,
- 7:17Speaker 5: whether they testify or not, ultimately as their choice. Of course,
- 7:20Speaker 5: you counsel them on what you believe would be the
- 7:23Speaker 5: best strategy in your case. And I'd say fifty percent
- 7:27Speaker 5: of the time or more, the defenders don't testify. The
- 7:29Speaker 5: burdens always on the prosecutor prove every element of the
- 7:32Speaker 5: crime by beyond a reasonable doubt, which is basically the
- 7:36Speaker 5: highest standard under the law. But in this case they
- 7:39Speaker 5: I think both haven't heard any recordings of testimony from
- 7:43Speaker 5: mister Lance, the father. I know that the mother did
- 7:46Speaker 5: take the stand and explained a lot of the allegations away,
- 7:52Speaker 5: although you know, and then they continued presenting evidence. They
- 7:56Speaker 5: presented a CPS worker. This is just like a broken record,
- 7:59Speaker 5: it seems here Virginia. But you know, CPS worker goes out.
- 8:02Speaker 4: Does a doesn't find anything. We use a home.
- 8:05Speaker 5: You know, they had on essence or the basic necessities food, water, shelter, heat,
- 8:11Speaker 5: that kind of thing. What I heard this morning is
- 8:15Speaker 5: that then that report was supposed to go back and
- 8:17Speaker 5: there was supposed to be some follow up which never occurred.
- 8:20Speaker 5: That's the broken record part of CPS here in West
- 8:23Speaker 5: Virginia there, it's underfunded, it's gonna they're smoking mirrors, and
- 8:28Speaker 5: the legislature about they're going to improve it. But I
- 8:32Speaker 5: I mean, I think they all we've heard now with
- 8:34Speaker 5: the new governor is cut, cut, cut, And I did
- 8:36Speaker 5: see there's a they've tried to contract out some CPS
- 8:39Speaker 5: type stuff and it's just awful. I forget where it was.
- 8:43Speaker 5: It's up in you know, Parkersburg, Clarksburg, but just housing
- 8:47Speaker 5: for children, Falster children where they've had Obviously it's just
- 8:51Speaker 5: some profiteering company that has unqualified or criminals. It just
- 8:57Speaker 5: shouldn't be running and running the show up there. And
- 9:00Speaker 5: we're probably gonna see more of that, sadly, but uh anyway,
- 9:04Speaker 5: so we'll see how that that turns out. We'll follow
- 9:06Speaker 5: with the defenses continuing their their case today. Actually, you
- 9:12Speaker 5: know what the prosecutors portrayed is you know, almost like
- 9:15Speaker 5: a like this is au they're taking those snippets and
- 9:19Speaker 5: and some quotes and some behaviors of the parents and
- 9:23Speaker 5: basically painted it as like they were they were racists.
- 9:28Speaker 5: And then they were using the kids almost for child
- 9:31Speaker 5: labor or some kind of sadistic abuse. And then I
- 9:35Speaker 5: know that the mom testified that, for example, that the
- 9:38Speaker 5: shed was like the teenage clubhouse, which is something a
- 9:41Speaker 5: lot of us can identify with, except I think they
- 9:43Speaker 5: were locked in and I'm not sure there was ready
- 9:46Speaker 5: access to a key. There's some dispute about that. And
- 9:49Speaker 5: then she also may have alluded to it as a classroom.
- 9:53Speaker 5: But there's video of the inside and there's just it's
- 9:56Speaker 5: like a plastic line nothing. I mean, there's no there's
- 9:59Speaker 5: no nothing in there. There's empty shelves, So it's I'm
- 10:02Speaker 5: not sure jury's going to buy that. It's hard to
- 10:04Speaker 5: predict when you just get portions of the testimony or
- 10:07Speaker 5: evidence through media. I haven't sat and watched any of
- 10:09Speaker 5: the trial. They've got some character witnesses, though, I guess
- 10:14Speaker 5: you would call them for the parents, a couple of
- 10:15Speaker 5: folks because they lived in Washington State, maybe maybe Minnesota
- 10:19Speaker 5: or somewhere too before they moved to West Virginia. And
- 10:22Speaker 5: they've got a couple at least two already have testified
- 10:25Speaker 5: about uh, you know, acquaintances from the past, that the
- 10:29Speaker 5: parents were cared about the children and tried to help them.
- 10:33Speaker 5: I think one of the boys it's pretty wex I've
- 10:37Speaker 5: hit some fairly severe mental health issues, and the mother
- 10:40Speaker 5: expressed difficulty trying to deal with with with him, and
- 10:44Speaker 5: that's part of the reason the conditions were the way
- 10:47Speaker 5: they were. So there's a lot of charges. I think
- 10:50Speaker 5: my kind of funger in the wind feeling is that
- 10:53Speaker 5: they're probably overcharged, and I will bet they get convicted
- 10:57Speaker 5: of something, but I from what I'm seeing, I doubt
- 11:01Speaker 5: they get convicted of all the charges.
- 11:03Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question from I know you
- 11:05Speaker 4: don't do necessarily a ton of criminal defense, but in
- 11:08Speaker 4: a circumstance like this, and this is such a I
- 11:13Speaker 4: want to talk about it more in the abstract, but
- 11:15Speaker 4: use this as the launching off point for it. We
- 11:17Speaker 4: talked about how you know CPS is underfunded here and
- 11:21Speaker 4: there might be some issues if you track this thing
- 11:23Speaker 4: down where maybe if there was abuses that were in place,
- 11:25Speaker 4: that maybe they should have been caught at some point earlier.
- 11:27Speaker 4: We don't really know for sure. I mean, that's part
- 11:30Speaker 4: of the potential narrative on this. Is there a tendency
- 11:33Speaker 4: sometimes with you looking at this from the perspective of defense,
- 11:38Speaker 4: where there could be the idea to make an example
- 11:41Speaker 4: of these people to sort of cover up the other
- 11:43Speaker 4: deficiencies that led to it happening. You know, you make
- 11:45Speaker 4: this into this huge thing, you charge them with everything
- 11:48Speaker 4: you possibly can. We're going to be tough on this
- 11:50Speaker 4: kind of thing that really you're not doing anything to
- 11:52Speaker 4: the underpendings that led to it not being properly.
- 11:54Speaker 5: Well, I mean, in this case, so the defense called
- 11:56Speaker 5: the CPS worker, not the prosecution, and of course it's
- 11:59Speaker 5: the government prosecuting. It's the government that's the CPS Child
- 12:03Speaker 5: Protective Services, And so I guess looking at it from
- 12:08Speaker 5: a criminal defense standpoint, if you read the law and
- 12:13Speaker 5: what Child Protective Services is supposed to do and supposed
- 12:16Speaker 5: to provide. I mean, the other one I recall right
- 12:17Speaker 5: now is the one down and I think it was
- 12:19Speaker 5: Boone County where a homeschool student basically was emaciated and
- 12:24Speaker 5: died and a complete and utter failure by Child Productive Services.
- 12:28Speaker 5: But from a you know, if you look at their
- 12:32Speaker 5: they do reports, they're in templates that are just filling out.
- 12:35Speaker 5: You know, there's federal law that requires they take certain
- 12:37Speaker 5: action to get federal funding, and there's templates for their
- 12:40Speaker 5: reports that they fill out, but you know there's language
- 12:43Speaker 5: in there. They check boxes like children not in iminent
- 12:47Speaker 5: danger and things like that. So I'm sure that the
- 12:52Speaker 5: one of the parents is represented by Mark Plants. He's
- 12:54Speaker 5: a really he was a prosecutor for a period of
- 12:56Speaker 5: time in Knall County, but he's a really good criminal
- 12:58Speaker 5: defense attorney and quite experienced, and so I'm sure he
- 13:01Speaker 5: was using those documents and the CPS worker he's supposed
- 13:05Speaker 5: to be an expert, went in and didn't find anything
- 13:08Speaker 5: worth taking any real action one. And so well, here's
- 13:12Speaker 5: the government, you know, saying all this kind of sensationalizing
- 13:15Speaker 5: the situation if they can prove what they said, and
- 13:21Speaker 5: that's fine, But then you have the the other government,
- 13:23Speaker 5: Child Protective Services, who was in there and says, well,
- 13:26Speaker 5: we didn't see anything that was uh so it's kind
- 13:29Speaker 5: of you know, you got something so severe maybe just
- 13:33Speaker 5: months later that you're alleging as part of the prosecution,
- 13:36Speaker 5: at the same time you got Child Protective Services worker
- 13:39Speaker 5: did an investigation and didn't see one thing that caused
- 13:44Speaker 5: him to take any further act.
- 13:45Speaker 4: So the prosecution would almost have to blame its client
- 13:48Speaker 4: to some degree, if you know, the client's the government
- 13:51Speaker 4: and the CPS. As part of Chris.
- 13:52Speaker 5: Prosecution, doesn't really have a client, right. But now if
- 13:56Speaker 5: you get into a what you'll see if anybody's ever
- 13:59Speaker 5: been involved in that, there's a civil abuse and neglect
- 14:04Speaker 5: process as well. That's where you can have It's not
- 14:06Speaker 5: a you don't go to jail, it's not a criminal case.
- 14:10Speaker 5: But if a parent's accused of abuse and neglect, let's
- 14:13Speaker 5: say they have a drug problem or improper environment to
- 14:19Speaker 5: the point it gets to legal neglect, then the Department
- 14:23Speaker 5: of Health and Human Resources Child Protective Services actually they're
- 14:25Speaker 5: called something else now because the legislators split the agency up,
- 14:29Speaker 5: But the prosecutor does prosecute those but they do it
- 14:34Speaker 5: in a way where they represent the Department of Human Services,
- 14:38Speaker 5: so they actually do have a client in that situation,
- 14:41Speaker 5: as opposed to when they're prosecuting a crime, they're really
- 14:45Speaker 5: i mean, they're just representing the public in essence, trying
- 14:50Speaker 5: to prosecute a crime. When and then they have a
- 14:52Speaker 5: separate prosecutors that exclusively represent the Department of Health and
- 14:56Speaker 5: Human Resources in these civil abuse and neglect cases. And
- 14:59Speaker 5: so yeah, if they saw a serious problem there when
- 15:02Speaker 5: they went into this property and investigated, they would then
- 15:06Speaker 5: go back to the prosecutor in a civil abuse neglect
- 15:08Speaker 5: case could be filed, and it doesn't mean their printal
- 15:12Speaker 5: rights would be stripped, but for example, there would be
- 15:15Speaker 5: opportunity for more investigation. The kids would be appointed a
- 15:18Speaker 5: lawyer in that process called a garden at itham, who
- 15:20Speaker 5: could go in and investigate the situation and then report
- 15:24Speaker 5: back to the court what's going on and if Sometimes
- 15:27Speaker 5: parents just need help and so they have what's called
- 15:29Speaker 5: improvement plans. It's kind of like parent probation, but the
- 15:33Speaker 5: department's supposed to provide services in most circumstances to help
- 15:36Speaker 5: them continue to parent. Now there's certain crimes that are
- 15:42Speaker 5: so bad or findings that are so bad that the
- 15:45Speaker 5: government doesn't have to provide any services to try and
- 15:48Speaker 5: rehabilitate the parent. Their pntal rights are just terminated. But
- 15:51Speaker 5: that's all that can happen, and that civil kind of
- 15:53Speaker 5: realm is the termination of printal rights. There's no criminal
- 15:56Speaker 5: aspect to it, and there can be in this case.
- 15:59Speaker 5: For example, if the CPS worker had found something wrong significantly,
- 16:04Speaker 5: they could have reported it back to the prosecutor and
- 16:06Speaker 5: a petition for abuse and neglect filed against the parents,
- 16:08Speaker 5: and it would have been in the court system and
- 16:10Speaker 5: maybe all this would have been who would be here
- 16:13Speaker 5: talking about it today. However, if the findings were that bad,
- 16:18Speaker 5: it doesn't prevent a criminal prosecutors prosecution as well, if
- 16:21Speaker 5: they can go on in tandem at the same time
- 16:24Speaker 5: or just separate proceedings.
- 16:26Speaker 4: So that makes sense. It's it could be getting very
- 16:29Speaker 4: complicated with this from the parent standpoint, because, like you said,
- 16:32Speaker 4: there's several different fronts that you have to contend with
- 16:35Speaker 4: on that. And then of course there's a complication with
- 16:37Speaker 4: the children. You mentioned that the one child was over eighteen,
- 16:39Speaker 4: so testify as an adult. What happens to kids in
- 16:43Speaker 4: these situations, especially when you're talking about abuse and things
- 16:45Speaker 4: like that, How.
- 16:46Speaker 5: Does now the underage children testify at least?
- 16:49Speaker 4: How does that work?
- 16:50Speaker 5: Children are not first of all, you got in a
- 16:55Speaker 5: criminal it's different in the civil abuse and neglects realm.
- 16:58Speaker 5: Sometimes there's some rules there that because it doesn't involve
- 17:01Speaker 5: loss of liberty if you lose the case as a parent,
- 17:05Speaker 5: that allows some evidence to come in. What we would
- 17:07Speaker 5: think of is kind of hearsay, like maybe there's a
- 17:11Speaker 5: statement taken by a professional so the judge and there's
- 17:13Speaker 5: no jury trial. In the civil abuse neglect, it's all
- 17:16Speaker 5: with the court, and so there's some rules meant to
- 17:20Speaker 5: protect children's mental well being and welfare that allows what
- 17:24Speaker 5: we would think of hearsay information to kind of come
- 17:26Speaker 5: in those cases. Now, in this case that we've got pending,
- 17:29Speaker 5: now it's a criminal case, so you have six Amendment
- 17:32Speaker 5: right to confront witnesses or your accusers. So essentially, in
- 17:37Speaker 5: most cases they'll make the children, if they're confident to testify,
- 17:41Speaker 5: mean the understand what is a lie and what is
- 17:46Speaker 5: the truth, and they can understand basic communication, then they
- 17:50Speaker 5: can be a witness. And they don't identify them. I
- 17:53Speaker 5: don't think the media identified the name of the child
- 17:55Speaker 5: that testified, but they put one or two of them
- 17:58Speaker 5: on the stand that was under age, and that's the
- 18:00Speaker 5: competent as witnesses, and they get cross examined by the
- 18:03Speaker 5: defense attorney, and obviously that's as a defense attorney, you
- 18:07Speaker 5: gotta be careful in that regard. But yeah, just thea
- 18:11Speaker 5: the one a turn eighteen, so she's an adult. But
- 18:13Speaker 5: the other one, one or two other ones also testified
- 18:16Speaker 5: as as children, and that can be it's a wild
- 18:18Speaker 5: card because you never really know when a child, you know,
- 18:22Speaker 5: twelve year old, ten year old gets on the stand,
- 18:24Speaker 5: how they're going to respond to questions.
- 18:27Speaker 4: In some ways, I think like a nine year old
- 18:29Speaker 4: might be the perfect witness, and you.
- 18:31Speaker 5: Know it's you never know, but you know, you would
- 18:36Speaker 5: think that in most circumstances, a nine year old would
- 18:41Speaker 5: be less inclined to have an agenda or be biased,
- 18:47Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like we might get the
- 18:48Speaker 5: the problem is do they they recall correctly and their
- 18:53Speaker 5: perception is accurate? And the other the other issue is this,
- 18:58Speaker 5: you know, this came up what's say, a year ago,
- 19:00Speaker 5: year and a half ago, and they haven't been around
- 19:02Speaker 5: the parents. They've been around somebody else who might believe
- 19:08Speaker 5: strongly in the prosecution's case. So you can have kind
- 19:12Speaker 5: of suggestions to children about what happened, and it just
- 19:15Speaker 5: kind of reinforces itself and ever and ever against the
- 19:18Speaker 5: time you get to trial. That's what's in the child's
- 19:21Speaker 5: mind about what happened. You know.
- 19:23Speaker 4: I keep thinking about my daughter, who, like sometimes when
- 19:26Speaker 4: I'm teaching her thing, she's six now six and a half,
- 19:28Speaker 4: and sometimes when we're going over some things and then
- 19:30Speaker 4: later we come back to him like, honey, remember what
- 19:33Speaker 4: we were learning earlier, and you realize and I'll explained
- 19:35Speaker 4: to her, like the lesson we had or whatever. She's like, Daddy,
- 19:37Speaker 4: that's what you told me. That's not what I figured out, right,
- 19:40Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, you know that's okay. I mean,
- 19:42Speaker 4: figure it out for yourself and then you're okay with it.
- 19:44Speaker 4: But I could just imagine her somebody trying to like
- 19:46Speaker 4: plan an idea in her head. She's like, no, that's
- 19:48Speaker 4: not like she would call you out on it.
- 19:50Speaker 5: Yeah, you never know. I mean, it's just different personalities,
- 19:54Speaker 5: just like anybody else. Right, you have some that are
- 19:56Speaker 5: very strong willed and some that aren't subject to suggestion,
- 20:01Speaker 5: and then you have the other way. So we'll see
- 20:04Speaker 5: how it come. We'll see how it turns out. I'd
- 20:06Speaker 5: say they'll wrap up. The defense is still presenting their
- 20:08Speaker 5: their case. I don't know if they have more witnesses.
- 20:13Speaker 5: I think they'll probably wrap up evidence today, but they
- 20:17Speaker 5: got to go over jury instructions other things before the
- 20:19Speaker 5: jury starts to deliberate. They may do closings tomorrow and
- 20:22Speaker 5: then let them deliberate next week. But I predict though
- 20:26Speaker 5: from what I've seen, kind of objectively and heard. I
- 20:28Speaker 5: think though the prosecuting will get a conviction, I'm just
- 20:32Speaker 5: not confident will be all the charges they filed.
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- 23:11Speaker 5: Yeah, we do do you know, not as much criminal
- 23:14Speaker 5: defense work as we used to. Actually, I kind of
- 23:16Speaker 5: enjoy doing criminal defense work if you find the right case.
- 23:21Speaker 5: By the herd of our commercial. I heard our commercial
- 23:23Speaker 5: there during the break about mesothelioma, and that's you know,
- 23:28Speaker 5: we don't advertise for that a lot. We don't have
- 23:30Speaker 5: a whole lot of those cases mesothelioma. If you, if
- 23:34Speaker 5: you have it, or you a family member has it,
- 23:37Speaker 5: you know exactly what I'm talking about, unfortunately, because it's
- 23:39Speaker 5: going to be something that's on your mind every day.
- 23:43Speaker 5: But just to further add to our add there's so
- 23:48Speaker 5: mesothelioma is a cancer of the lungs, the lining, the
- 23:51Speaker 5: plural of the lungs, and it is uh pretty much
- 23:56Speaker 5: exclusively caused by asbestos exposure, and there's no really lethal
- 24:04Speaker 5: level of exposure, and you could be exposed very briefly
- 24:08Speaker 5: to asbestos and still develop mesothelioma. And those we don't
- 24:13Speaker 5: do a whole lot of. There's asbestosis where you have
- 24:15Speaker 5: some scarring on your lungs but it actically doesn't develop
- 24:17Speaker 5: into cancer. We don't really take those cases. But if
- 24:20Speaker 5: you are a feeling to have mesothelioma, think about giving
- 24:23Speaker 5: us a call, because you see there's bookoos of TV
- 24:27Speaker 5: commercials with lawyers trying to grab them. We we have
- 24:31Speaker 5: a handful pending at any one time, but those cases
- 24:35Speaker 5: are really important to decline. Unfortunately, it's almost universally terminal. UH.
- 24:42Speaker 5: You can get some extra time with the right treatments,
- 24:45Speaker 5: but unfortunately it's a it's a terminal condition. So it
- 24:48Speaker 5: is important uh to contact a lawyer rather quickly because
- 24:52Speaker 5: there's evidence preservation issues when somebody's really sick like that.
- 24:57Speaker 5: But we when we get those cases, we we handle
- 25:00Speaker 5: it with very carefully on our end. And then we
- 25:03Speaker 5: have a law firm that we work with on actually
- 25:06Speaker 5: have an office in West Virginia, but they're more of
- 25:08Speaker 5: a national regional type firm, but they do almost exclusively
- 25:12Speaker 5: that type work and do a really good job. But
- 25:14Speaker 5: then we help with the leg work and so you
- 25:15Speaker 5: get that personal touch and you also get the expertise
- 25:18Speaker 5: of having a firm that does a lot of that
- 25:21Speaker 5: type of work. It's the side cases to handle because
- 25:26Speaker 5: you know, when the client comes in they may not
- 25:28Speaker 5: be here a year, two years, two years out, and
- 25:34Speaker 5: it's one of those you know. Actually, we've had what
- 25:38Speaker 5: they call bystander cases, probably a half dozen of those
- 25:42Speaker 5: over the years where it's not necessarily the worker that
- 25:46Speaker 5: goes into work around you get a lot of industrial
- 25:49Speaker 5: exposures where the cases arise most of the time. But
- 25:52Speaker 5: like somebody will come back from a local plant to
- 25:54Speaker 5: say here in the Kenall Valley and then we're in
- 25:57Speaker 5: their clothes with dust on them. Maybe it's from insulation
- 26:00Speaker 5: that they were putting in or something like that that
- 26:02Speaker 5: had asbestos dust in it. Well, then who does the laundry? Right?
- 26:06Speaker 4: Oh wow, yeah, yeah.
- 26:08Speaker 5: So I've had a case, more than one case where
- 26:11Speaker 5: unfortunately the spouse that stayed home and out of the
- 26:14Speaker 5: workforce raising the kids ends up getting mess. I've had
- 26:17Speaker 5: an unfortunate case where the mother passed away young and
- 26:24Speaker 5: they had a few kids, one daughter, so you know,
- 26:27Speaker 5: he started doing the laundry. At that point which the
- 26:29Speaker 5: mom passed away, the daughter got mess othilioma. She hadn't
- 26:33Speaker 5: been in any industrial sites. It just came off the
- 26:36Speaker 5: clothing of her father, who worked around it as part
- 26:39Speaker 5: of his jobs. So, but there are a lot of
- 26:44Speaker 5: a lot of lawyers after those cases. And when you
- 26:47Speaker 5: see that, that's because you know there's potential for it
- 26:50Speaker 5: for a good recovery. Monetarily, it's never going to replace
- 26:53Speaker 5: a lost loved one. But uh, but just keep us
- 26:56Speaker 5: in mind if you have if you're diagnosed or or
- 27:00Speaker 5: a family member is the doc. Your doctor generally can
- 27:02Speaker 5: identify it because it they'll do a biopsy and they
- 27:08Speaker 5: know what mesothelioma is, and they'll tell you it's different
- 27:11Speaker 5: from kind of what we call the more conventional lung
- 27:14Speaker 5: answers that you get from smoking and other causes. But
- 27:20Speaker 5: if you have mesothelioma, it's I think ninety nine point
- 27:24Speaker 5: nine percent basically if you live in the United States
- 27:26Speaker 5: of America that you it's it's the result of US
- 27:29Speaker 5: bustos exposure. So it's just a matter of tracking down
- 27:32Speaker 5: where the exposure occurred and when and how, and and
- 27:36Speaker 5: we do we do well. We get good results on
- 27:37Speaker 5: those cases. So just ask you to keep us in
- 27:40Speaker 5: mind if you have a friend or family member that's
- 27:42Speaker 5: been diagnosed with mesothelioma.
- 27:44Speaker 4: I'm really glad you bring that up. This is completely anecdotal, evident,
- 27:47Speaker 4: or not even evidence, but it's just an antidote that
- 27:49Speaker 4: happened to me. But I do wonder if it carries
- 27:50Speaker 4: very much because, like you mentioned, these ads are all
- 27:53Speaker 4: over the television and they're of varying quality depending on
- 27:56Speaker 4: who's paying form or whatever it might be. But sometimes
- 27:58Speaker 4: depending on the type of show you're watching, like Jeopardy
- 28:01Speaker 4: or something something that tends to sky were a little
- 28:02Speaker 4: older or whatever it might be, you see it a
- 28:04Speaker 4: lot and it comes on a lot. I've been in
- 28:05Speaker 4: a room before. I think it was after a ballgame
- 28:06Speaker 4: went off actually, with a bunch of family members sitting
- 28:09Speaker 4: around and stuff, and one of these commercials came on
- 28:10Speaker 4: for that and they expressed skepticism over the effectiveness of
- 28:14Speaker 4: it because the marketing push was so heavy. It's like,
- 28:17Speaker 4: this can't be anything good for the for the client
- 28:19Speaker 4: because look how aggressively they're going after it. Like it's
- 28:21Speaker 4: like it was this weird space where there was like
- 28:24Speaker 4: this is so popular that it can't be good for
- 28:26Speaker 4: me type of thing. And I'm just wondering some people
- 28:29Speaker 4: find these weird ways to talk themselves out of protecting themselves.
- 28:32Speaker 4: It's just a it's a really strange thing. Yeah, that's
- 28:34Speaker 4: when you need to take action on. Of course, you know,
- 28:36Speaker 4: we have a little different marketing stretch. Yeah, you guys,
- 28:40Speaker 4: for sure.
- 28:41Speaker 5: We don't do I got a billboard. I do the radio,
- 28:43Speaker 5: of course, and then we try and help a lot
- 28:45Speaker 5: around the community. But honestly, we get a lot of
- 28:48Speaker 5: calls from folks that listen to us on the radio,
- 28:51Speaker 5: but really we get a lot of referrals, and we
- 28:54Speaker 5: get a lot of return clients. So somebody because they
- 28:58Speaker 5: like us and like the results that we get, so
- 29:00Speaker 5: as opposed to somebody just seeing you know, if we
- 29:03Speaker 5: put fifty commercials on during the new news and somebody
- 29:06Speaker 5: calls us because they see our ad, you know, probably
- 29:09Speaker 5: ninety percent of our cases are people that call us
- 29:12Speaker 5: because they believe we'll do an effective job and they
- 29:15Speaker 5: know us in some way or know somebody that knows us,
- 29:18Speaker 5: as opposed to just seeing a billboard or a commercial
- 29:22Speaker 5: on TV or something like that. But yeah, that well,
- 29:26Speaker 5: and you know you're kind of talking about the under
- 29:28Speaker 5: I mean, some of those commercials definitely would turn me off.
- 29:31Speaker 5: They're they're quite pushing in over the top and guaranteeing
- 29:36Speaker 5: almost results and things, which is not realistic.
- 29:40Speaker 4: I guess there's competition in the space somewhere.
- 29:41Speaker 5: Sure, Well there's only you know, there's only you know
- 29:45Speaker 5: that the Luckily it's gotten better as technology and knowledge
- 29:51Speaker 5: has improved. As far as asbesos exposure, you just don't
- 29:54Speaker 5: see it as much I did have. Unfortunately she passed
- 29:57Speaker 5: away within a year of the time at her but
- 30:01Speaker 5: like three or four years ago, we had a thirty
- 30:03Speaker 5: eight year old that was diagnosed with mesothelium and she
- 30:06Speaker 5: had most likely the exposure occurred to her grandfather's when
- 30:09Speaker 5: she stayed there every summer and he worked in industry
- 30:12Speaker 5: where his clothing was contaminated with asbestos. And so you
- 30:17Speaker 5: still get someone, but they're hopefully as time continues to pass,
- 30:26Speaker 5: we've gotten much safer an industry about asbestos exposure as
- 30:29Speaker 5: long as it stays intact. It's like if it's in
- 30:31Speaker 5: the ceiling dials and you're not taking chomping them up
- 30:34Speaker 5: or crushing them or demoing a building, for example, then
- 30:37Speaker 5: you should be fine.
- 30:39Speaker 4: How coincidentally you mentioned ceiling towels. Well, we've had, you know,
- 30:45Speaker 4: the work we've been doing around on our studios, two
- 30:48Speaker 4: major delays because we ran across asbestos in right, and.
- 30:51Speaker 5: You have if you do have us, but see now
- 30:54Speaker 5: you find it they detected.
- 30:55Speaker 4: Oh we have to. Yeah, we had to rope everything off.
- 30:57Speaker 4: We had a plastic like a seventy two hour period
- 31:01Speaker 4: for yeah.
- 31:01Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah, our contracted workers labor that yeah, you know
- 31:07Speaker 5: their their trade is is that only now it does
- 31:10Speaker 5: end up if you're going to demo a building or something,
- 31:12Speaker 5: you buy an old house and it's it's got asbestos
- 31:15Speaker 5: in it, then be prepared for some additional costs for sure.
- 31:18Speaker 5: But that's the difference between today and maybe fifty years ago,
- 31:22Speaker 5: when you know you just get tears down anyway and
- 31:25Speaker 5: then you're exposed to asbestos fibers that.
- 31:28Speaker 4: We uh stuck in your lung. We do have a
- 31:30Speaker 4: text question. It leans towards the political, but this is
- 31:33Speaker 4: your show and it's a question for you, so we
- 31:34Speaker 4: can we can handle this however you wish. This comes
- 31:37Speaker 4: from the nine zero four seven one six. I completely
- 31:39Speaker 4: disagree with the Trump pardons of all of the January
- 31:42Speaker 4: sixth rioters. Presidential pardons are out of control and this
- 31:45Speaker 4: process needs to be reviewed. My question for Tom is
- 31:48Speaker 4: where those pardoned or had their senses is commuted, Where
- 31:51Speaker 4: their convictions stay on their record?
- 31:53Speaker 5: Well, if they were commuted to different things, right, Yeah,
- 31:56Speaker 5: if they were commuted, their convictions will stay on their
- 31:58Speaker 5: record because it commuting just commutes the sentence, so their
- 32:02Speaker 5: sentences were terminated. And if you're pardoned, then it's gone.
- 32:08Speaker 5: Your conviction is overturned completely. I think it was a
- 32:12Speaker 5: rather broad sweeping the language of Trump's uh relief he
- 32:18Speaker 5: gave to the January sixth insurrectionists.
- 32:21Speaker 7: Uh.
- 32:23Speaker 5: I think might have been a mix of commuting sentences
- 32:26Speaker 5: and pardons, So I don't know which one was which,
- 32:28Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean I find it completely because I
- 32:32Speaker 5: remember sitting at my desk seeing it happen at the
- 32:36Speaker 5: Capitol and just thought this could never happen in the
- 32:38Speaker 5: United States. And I certainly didn't think the person that
- 32:40Speaker 5: egged on would ever be elected president again. And then
- 32:45Speaker 5: I would have hoped that he would not pardon people
- 32:50Speaker 5: that had been sentenced to maybe a decade or more.
- 32:53Speaker 4: For like the organizations that had I mean there were
- 32:56Speaker 4: there were organizations had weapons caches nearby. I mean, all
- 32:59Speaker 4: this was proven in a federal court.
- 33:00Speaker 5: I mean it's yeah. I mean, and some of the
- 33:03Speaker 5: fellas that have been released are already talking about retribution
- 33:06Speaker 5: and things like that. Of course, it's a it's a
- 33:09Speaker 5: never thought I would see it. You know, I've learned
- 33:13Speaker 5: that the people that endorse it, you just really can't
- 33:16Speaker 5: change your mind. They I saw Shelley more Capital being
- 33:18Speaker 5: asked about it. I didn't know he was gonna pardon
- 33:22Speaker 5: the the ones that had actually assaulted law enforcement officers
- 33:27Speaker 5: with her in the in the Capitol. But in the
- 33:30Speaker 5: end her uh, I mean, she's a politician, is what
- 33:32Speaker 5: she is. My question, well, well, in the end what
- 33:36Speaker 5: she said, well he did it. Let's just move on.
- 33:38Speaker 5: Well that's okay. I guess that's how history repeats itself.
- 33:42Speaker 5: And we'll see all this plays out. I mean, I
- 33:45Speaker 5: you know, you have just sweeping executive orders that I
- 33:50Speaker 5: think they're already being challenged. So we'll kind of follow
- 33:52Speaker 5: some of that as it's new. There's been a case
- 33:55Speaker 5: or two foul to think you got this DEI issue
- 34:01Speaker 5: that he's which is diversity, equity inclusion, equity inclusion, which
- 34:06Speaker 5: I don't know how that could be bad now if
- 34:09Speaker 5: you look, I did have occasion to read. The US
- 34:13Speaker 5: Supreme Court issued a ruling in twenty twenty three. It
- 34:15Speaker 5: was involving Harvard and University of North Carolina like kind
- 34:19Speaker 5: of affirmative action admissions policies, and it was Justice Roberts
- 34:26Speaker 5: wrote it, and it was based on the Equal Protection Clause.
- 34:29Speaker 5: Essentially said you can't have admission policies that use race
- 34:35Speaker 5: as a factor really at all, you can He kind
- 34:39Speaker 5: of said, you could implicitly, you can look at people's
- 34:42Speaker 5: backgrounds and if you know the way they view things
- 34:44Speaker 5: or what they went through because of their race can
- 34:46Speaker 5: be considered. But you can't have these kind of I
- 34:50Speaker 5: don't want to say a quota system, but in a
- 34:52Speaker 5: way it was. And only so many people get into
- 34:55Speaker 5: Harvard and u NC each year. So the idea of
- 34:58Speaker 5: his opinion was like, well, if you use race as
- 35:02Speaker 5: a factor, then you're let's say you're letting five people
- 35:05Speaker 5: in that wouldn't get in otherwise, but at some time
- 35:07Speaker 5: you're also excluding five other people that are not of
- 35:10Speaker 5: the protected race, basically, and that's the law of the
- 35:14Speaker 5: land now, whether you agree with it or not. I
- 35:17Speaker 5: had occasion to reread it here in the last few
- 35:19Speaker 5: weeks because of an issue with a client, and it's
- 35:21Speaker 5: pretty there's not much bend in it, and I think,
- 35:25Speaker 5: you know, we're going to see a lot. We already
- 35:26Speaker 5: saw private companies moving away from their DEI policies, and
- 35:30Speaker 5: now I think what Trump did was enter basically an
- 35:34Speaker 5: executive order saying if there's any of those in government
- 35:38Speaker 5: connected employment. Then they're just off, they're no longer valid.
- 35:42Speaker 4: And sometimes the Equal Opportunities think we don't have about
- 35:44Speaker 4: a minute left. But but didn't he suspend Equal Opportunity
- 35:47Speaker 4: Act or something.
- 35:47Speaker 5: I haven't seen that something. I don't know that you
- 35:50Speaker 5: can do that, but nothing would surprise me at this point.
- 35:53Speaker 5: So we'll just see how it plays out. There'll be
- 35:55Speaker 5: a lot of legal issues and a lot of things
- 35:57Speaker 5: to talk about. That's the good thing about it, potentially.
- 35:59Speaker 5: But I really hope we don't have any you know,
- 36:03Speaker 5: I do worry and and hopefully Shelley Moore Capital doesn't
- 36:07Speaker 5: just put it in the past to move on. But
- 36:09Speaker 5: some of these folks that he pardoned are they seem
- 36:13Speaker 5: dangerous to me from what I what I read, and
- 36:18Speaker 5: with this Elon Must Deal and things like that, it
- 36:20Speaker 5: almost looks like we're moving towards an oligarchy like they
- 36:22Speaker 5: have in Russia. And I hope it gets rachetered back
- 36:25Speaker 5: and under control. But uh, I don't know, because I'm
- 36:29Speaker 5: seeing things now I never thought.
- 36:30Speaker 4: I would see.
- 36:30Speaker 5: Yeah, hear, you're co dict out far it's gonna go
- 36:33Speaker 5: or what's gonna happen? But uh, and you certainly I
- 36:37Speaker 5: don't know how which way you lean. If you have
- 36:39Speaker 5: folks that endorse his conduct, I mean you can't. They
- 36:43Speaker 5: will not be sweating.
- 36:44Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't happen. Tom Peyton from the Peyton
- 36:47Speaker 4: Law for me, I with the power of Payton on
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- 37:03Speaker 4: at eight twenty right here on five ADWECS. Tom, thank
- 37:06Speaker 4: you so much for your time.
- 37:06Speaker 5: As always, you're welcome. I look forward to next week.
- 37:08Speaker 4: We'll see you next week. That's Tom Payton from the
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