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Arthur Aidala | Defense Attorney | 07-09-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here he is author right, dollar Autie, Good morning, How
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  Speaker 1: are you pal?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning?
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  Speaker 3: All right, I'm rehearsing Sid. How does this sound?
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  Speaker 2: Folks? Back in nineteen eighty three, far down on the
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  Speaker 2: heights called Dyker at poly Prep, no one thought we
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  Speaker 2: would be here today to induct Sid Rosenberg into the
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  Speaker 2: Radio Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: He was a skinny little kid who was in a
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  Speaker 3: carpool with Bruce Sharratt.
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  Speaker 2: And Joe Tacopina.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, don't forget George Small, don't be
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  Speaker 1: get George Small.
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  Speaker 2: And his trajectory was not on the path of being
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  Speaker 2: in any hall of the fame, except maybe the kid
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  Speaker 2: who failed out of school hall of Fame. And yet
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  Speaker 2: here we are, all these years later, so proud of
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  Speaker 2: one of Brooklyn's native son who have risen to the
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  Speaker 2: pinnacle of his career. And we all stand and applaud
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  Speaker 2: him and his entire family for reaching this achievement. Ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, the newest member to the New York Radio
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, Sid Rosenberg.
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  Speaker 1: How did I do? You're hired? Louisah done. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That was fantastic, I mean it, that was fantastic. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: oh look, how nice lit Look, who's not even man
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  Speaker 1: nuts before we begin? When Sid comes over, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: want to say if you weren't listen, Audi is in
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  Speaker 1: that group of people who need to be considered. And
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  Speaker 1: that really was excellent just now. But I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: blowing smoke up your ress. I was great Takapina too,
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  Speaker 1: both of you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well look it is true. You know I was right
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  Speaker 2: behind you in terms of trajectories back in the nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, well three of us, three of us,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Aldi, To be honest, all three of us, me, you,
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  Speaker 1: and Joseph, Me and Joseph were voted in the polyglot
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  Speaker 1: least likely to succeed you are you as well? So
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  Speaker 1: really all three of us have exceeded expectations.
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  Speaker 2: You know. They canceled that whole thing back, I think
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  Speaker 2: even right before I graduated, because they used to be
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  Speaker 2: a category called asked Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: And it hasn't think about how tides of change.
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  Speaker 2: It had to do with the woman in the class
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  Speaker 2: who was like the biggest, bulkiest woman and they voted
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  Speaker 2: this girl and she was hysterically crying, and that was it.
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  Speaker 2: The Prinson, the headmaster, you can't say headmaster. The head
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  Speaker 2: of school said no, we're not doing that with anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the days. Said well, congratulations on it. When
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  Speaker 2: you sent me the text that you were getting in,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, right on, my man.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, it's going to be a wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Day for you and your family. I was blessed to
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  Speaker 2: get the Bar Associations their their addition of the Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame. And you'll see as much as you'll be
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  Speaker 2: proud of yourself looking down at Abra and Gabriel and
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  Speaker 2: you'll have to come up from Pennsylvania with her new school.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's what's going to make you proud because
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  Speaker 2: your kids are going to be like, wow, look at this,
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  Speaker 2: my dad's in the hall. That's that's cool stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, And we do it all.
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  Speaker 3: We do it all for them at.
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  Speaker 2: This point, right we're on the way out. We're on
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  Speaker 2: the back of the mind.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, listen, there's no one back nine. I'm on thirteen. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: pass back nine. I maybe on fourteen. And you're right,
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  Speaker 1: and you're a great bother to And again, that was
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  Speaker 1: awesome that little speech you just wrote impromptu. That was great.
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  Speaker 1: But you talk about my daughter Ava and these days
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  Speaker 1: you see my daughter as much as I do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's I'm sad, you know, she's splitting. I mean
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  Speaker 2: she's going to such an unbelievable school. I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: her top three, top top four law school. She's going
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  Speaker 2: to get her Masters in law, which is a degree
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  Speaker 2: higher than anyone you mentioned. I don't even think Dershowitz
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  Speaker 2: has Masters in law. No tack of Peter and I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't even spell masters, let alone achieve Masters in Law.
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  Speaker 2: So heart trajectory, unlike ours is she's headed towards truds
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  Speaker 2: the stars, and it's well well deserved that God she
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  Speaker 2: has a mother's DNA.
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  Speaker 1: Yes she does, no question about it. Gabriel too, he's honest,
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  Speaker 1: way to doing special things. He's got not one, but
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  Speaker 1: two amazing jobs this summer, both of which I'll share
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  Speaker 1: at a later date. The great author, right, Donald, That's
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  Speaker 1: been a tremendous first six minutes already. I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to some of these cases people want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about. We got about seven minutes to go. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with Tyler Robinson. I did have my friend Donna
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  Speaker 1: Rotuna on the show yesterday. You know, Donna very very well.
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  Speaker 1: She's on Box News just about every day. She's live
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  Speaker 1: in Provo, Utah, covering this Tyler Robinson Charlie Kirk case.
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  Speaker 1: This is a preliminary hearing. They just want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure there's enough evidence to charge this guy with murder.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems to me you're got a layman. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not an attorney. There's a ton of evidence to charge
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson. Yes, yeah, yeah, yes.
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  Speaker 2: The real question is why the prosecutor chose chose to
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  Speaker 2: go this direction as opposed to what and they had
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  Speaker 2: the option to what we do here in New York,
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  Speaker 2: which is just have a grand jury. Now, in New York,
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  Speaker 2: you could have a preliminary hearing that they'd doing, but
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  Speaker 2: it almost never happens. It's always a secret thing behind
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  Speaker 2: closed doors with the grand jury. And they could have
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  Speaker 2: done that here. But I think what they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do was show the public, Look, this is the overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: evidence we have against this guy, and it is a
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  Speaker 2: way for the prosecutor to taint the jury pool, which
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  Speaker 2: has been the defense attorney's objections. You know, you're putting
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  Speaker 2: all of this evidence out there now, evidence, some of
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  Speaker 2: it that would not be admitted in the trial. But
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  Speaker 2: you're just showing Neil what an air tight case that
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  Speaker 2: you have. So they've done something that would not be
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  Speaker 2: done in our area here in terms of geographical area.
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  Speaker 2: But they're letting you know, hey, we got materials with
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  Speaker 2: his DNA on it. We have videos of him surveying
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  Speaker 2: the campus before, we have evidence that he was at
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  Speaker 2: the scene. We have statements from his roommate. I mean, ay, yes,
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  Speaker 2: they have an absolute overwhelming case. It's probably going to
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  Speaker 2: be up to and this is a guestimate Erica Kirk,
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  Speaker 2: whether they actually seek the death penalty or they allow
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  Speaker 2: him to plead to something where he would serve life
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  Speaker 2: without paroles. Usually usually prosecute his offices, lean heavily into
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  Speaker 2: the deceased family as to what their wishes are. And
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  Speaker 2: I believe, and you'll correct me if I'm wrong. She's
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  Speaker 2: already been out there in observing her faith saying like
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  Speaker 2: she forgives him.
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  Speaker 1: She did, she did, she did say that like the
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  Speaker 1: day after he was murdered. And you know, you look
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  Speaker 1: at Luigi Mangioni in New York and the Thompson family,
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  Speaker 1: that nice guy who was murdered. That's what he was murdered.
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  Speaker 1: Very cowardly, cold blood. Mangioni shot him from behind. They
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  Speaker 1: won't have that opportunity here in New York. There'll be
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  Speaker 1: no death penalty. They've lost that already. But now you've
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  Speaker 1: got not one, but two cases. You got a state
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  Speaker 1: case against Mangioni, you got a federal case against Mangioni.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way this guy doesn't serve the rest of
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  Speaker 1: his life behind bars. So why exactly are we wasting
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  Speaker 1: her time? Author?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's a that's a great point said.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that Luigi, in my opinion, has going
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  Speaker 2: for him is his age. So that hypothetically, if he
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  Speaker 2: gets between the two jurisdictions, the state and the federal,
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  Speaker 2: if he winds up with fifty years, maybe he gets
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  Speaker 2: out at seventy eight, seventy nine eighty. But you know
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  Speaker 2: what kind of life is that. I mean, the evidence
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  Speaker 2: there from what we've seen, what's been put on television
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  Speaker 2: in the newspaper. You know, you say, to murder, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's like an execution, really, I mean, right, the
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  Speaker 2: guys right behind him, it's on video, the evidence of
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  Speaker 2: the judges letting in the backpack, the journal, the weapon,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and then they said well, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: go with a mental disease or defect defense. And then
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  Speaker 2: the next day they withdrew it, which is definitely not
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  Speaker 2: typical because when you say you're going with that defense,
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  Speaker 2: you're admitting he did it, and then there's the excuse
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  Speaker 2: why he did it. So you said, for like twenty hours,
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  Speaker 2: yeah he did it, but there's a reason why he
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  Speaker 2: did it, and then you pulled it back. So and
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  Speaker 2: you're in two very difficult jurisdictions, the Manhattan District Attorney's
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  Speaker 2: Office and the Southern District of New York. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in Rosenbergh analysis that mister Mangioni will be
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  Speaker 2: spending many, many, many years of several decades behind bars.
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  Speaker 2: And then in the Eastern District of New York, which
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  Speaker 2: is Brooklyn. I'm representing your good friends, well, I'm representing
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  Speaker 2: Frank technically, with Frank and his brother Anthony Caron in
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  Speaker 2: a three year investigation where they went up every orifice
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  Speaker 2: that any human being could have.
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  Speaker 1: No listen, I spoke to you know, I'm closer with Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: but I love Frank. Two, Curtisley was a scumbag doing
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  Speaker 1: videos and dancing. I even know the Boe. To be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very very close with Anthony. I do love Frank,
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  Speaker 1: and you know those guys, you know they they kind
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  Speaker 1: of waited every morning for that knock at the door,
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  Speaker 1: and they got it, and now here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I knew that you represented them in the arraignment. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize you what their attorney as well, which is
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  Speaker 1: great because you're as good as a cat. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad they've got you, So tell me about what.
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  Speaker 2: Secondly, I'm Frank's attorney, but Anthony's, I mean all that. Look,
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  Speaker 2: there's several lawyers involved. They're all excellent. My biggest problem
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  Speaker 2: is I've been friends with Frank since nineteen ninety six
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  Speaker 2: or nineteen ninety seven, So there's this personal aspect of it,
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  Speaker 2: which puts that many more cinder blocks on your shoulders
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  Speaker 2: when you're representing someone you know, someone whose daughters, who
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  Speaker 2: you were at his daughter's wedding that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: But now I gotta tell you that I know you
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  Speaker 1: know this because I said this to you. I found
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  Speaker 1: out about this from Katsumatides. I was walking to the
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  Speaker 1: Western Wall, which they call the Cotel in Jerusalem, to pray.
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  Speaker 1: I swear to god. It was my last day in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Wednesday afternoon, and in fact I was
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  Speaker 1: about to call the radio station, which I did from
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  Speaker 1: a little cafe just outside the Western wall. I started crying.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I was really upset. So tell me what's
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  Speaker 1: going on with this case.
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  Speaker 2: At the bottom line is they did a very huge,
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  Speaker 2: sorrow long term investigation. They spoke to everyone around the
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  Speaker 2: world of the Corols, everybody including his priests. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: wrap your brain around that one. And they came up
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  Speaker 2: with a set of facts which you know, again I
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  Speaker 2: have to watch what I say because I'm involve with
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  Speaker 2: the case. But let's just say they're not overwhelming. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we spoke about Robinson, we talked about MANZIONI whatever. That
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  Speaker 2: is on the one side of the spectrum. This is
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  Speaker 2: on the exact other side of the spectrum in terms
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  Speaker 2: of strength of cases. So you know, there's plenty for
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  Speaker 2: good lawyer and good lawyers to work on. There's forget
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  Speaker 2: about reasonable doubts. There are tons of doubts, and you
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  Speaker 2: know we are just we're rolling up our sleeves. Frank
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  Speaker 2: wants the fastest trial possible and which I get in
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  Speaker 2: front of a jury. His exact words were, if anyone
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  Speaker 2: says the word plea that we as a legal team.
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  Speaker 2: So we've covered full Steve ahead and you know he's
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  Speaker 2: my educated guests, having been doing this since nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: Is everything's going to be okay in the long rum?
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  Speaker 1: I love that frank An Anthony Corona good buddies. One
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  Speaker 1: more another guy you're representing who everybody loves, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Sergeant Eric Duran. Been quiet. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you guys are in the midst of some type of appeal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what is going on with Vinnie Powalan's guy,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Doran.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so Vinnie. First of all, if there's any positive
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  Speaker 2: that's come out of the Eric Durant thing, is that
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  Speaker 2: my relationship with Vinnie. What a good guy, greatly on
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  Speaker 2: several levels. Just a really good guy. I'm happy, No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thrilled. I have a very My Appella team is
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  Speaker 2: very experienced. Diana Fabby was in the Die's office in
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  Speaker 2: the Appellate Bureau for ten years. Judge Barry Tammonds has
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  Speaker 2: argued more compellic cases than I could count, and Judge
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  Speaker 2: John Lemondal was the appellate Judge, you heard them all,
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  Speaker 2: So that trifecta and I know you're gonna love to
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  Speaker 2: hear this because you're very close with Harvey Wearrenstein.
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  Speaker 3: That's the trifecta that that got.
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  Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein's case overturned in a very very difficult environment.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, most people love Eric Duran right, people
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  Speaker 2: with their head screwed on street. There's too many people
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  Speaker 2: out there and accept maybe his own children who loved
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Weinstein. So there was a huge hurdle to get
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  Speaker 2: that case reversed. Just be from the public perception point
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  Speaker 2: of view. I will tell you, Judge Cammons, who have
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  Speaker 2: been with me over ten years now in my law firm,
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  Speaker 2: I have not seen him so energetic and so motivated
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  Speaker 2: about an appeal and Diana, who's because most of it's
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  Speaker 2: on video sid and it's a unlike regular cases where
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  Speaker 2: there's a jury, this was a judge's verdict. There was
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  Speaker 2: one human being's verdict. So you get to argue the
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  Speaker 2: facts to the appellate court. So you get to retry
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  Speaker 2: the case to the appellate court. You don't normally ninety
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  Speaker 2: five percent of the time you don't get to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about the law of the law of the law.
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  Speaker 2: Here we're going to get to talk about the facts
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  Speaker 2: and how all Eric was doing when he acted that
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  Speaker 2: day was saving the lives of at least two police
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  Speaker 2: offs and one civilian. The video shows that. And that
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  Speaker 2: case where you have to submit our brief in August,
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  Speaker 2: they'll probably get their back in November. And my guess
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  Speaker 2: is that case is going to argue January February, and
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  Speaker 2: then you gotta wait for the court's decision. The best part, though,
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  Speaker 2: is one of the judges on the Appel Division has
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  Speaker 2: let Eric Durant stay at Liberty during this process, so
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  Speaker 2: he's home, he's with his family. He's a great guy,
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  Speaker 2: and we are really we are really digging in deep
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  Speaker 2: to make sure he gets exonerated.
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  Speaker 1: Let him know New York loves him, like I love you.
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  Speaker 1: This was an amazing I mean, you're always great, You're
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  Speaker 1: gredit this, You're great on TV. You're going this was
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  Speaker 1: one of your best ever. I gotta say, Artie, so
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for the other Like.
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  Speaker 2: The way I introduced you, Yes, Hall of Fame introduction.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you could have got on fighting over it.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's I mean, I just assumed Trump is doing it right.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't Trump going to introduce you into the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: I am not at liberty to share that yet. He
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  Speaker 1: just got home from Turkey's a little tired, but in
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  Speaker 1: a serious note, you were great, really really great, authoright Dalla?
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  Speaker 1: I love you, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Congrat's soon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Great job. There is the amazing defense attorney
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  Speaker 1: author Idala back on SID and Friends in the Morning.
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