Latest / OneLegUpAlex Media / Mr. Acquittal Ep. 4 : An Examination of LI Body Parts Case and How Mario Intertwines Sports and Criminal Law Practice 4-1-24
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- 0:02Here's your host to Alex Garrett. Hey everyone, I'm Alex Garrett, and
- 0:07yes this is the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. But I'm proud to welcome mister
- 0:12Mario Galucci and Mario Galucci's Mister Acquittal Defending the Rights of the People. See
- 0:19this podcast is on the Garrett Network and we have been privileged to have tens
- 0:23of thousands of people listening to podcasts on our platform. But now I'm very
- 0:27happy to introduce one of the top criminal attorneys in the country, Mario Galucci.
- 0:34And Mario, welcome back once again to your own show on the Alex
- 0:38Garrett Podcast Network. How are you, Alex? What's going on? Anything
- 0:41good out there in the world. I know that we're big Yankee fans and
- 0:45we're seeing that crumble a little bit with the MRIs to Garrett Cole and Aaron
- 0:50Judge. But we'll get to sports in a minute. I want to talk
- 0:52about the Allied body parts case in Zuffolk County because you have your own take
- 0:57on it, being that you were part of a party parts as well.
- 1:00I was part of probably the largest body parts case to ever hit this nation.
- 1:04I was part of the uh the body parts case in which a doctor
- 1:10from Long Island was actually taking body parts at a funeral parlors. And when
- 1:18I say body parts, were talking about tendons and ligaments and skin and uh
- 1:23and different parts of the body that are actually used for medical purposes. And
- 1:30he was taking these harvesting. It's not taking Nick call it harvesting. He
- 1:34was harvesting these these body parts and sending him to processes RTI, which is
- 1:42one of the larger processes. And what these companies do they process ligaments,
- 1:47tendons, and skin to be used in surgical procedures. In my client,
- 1:53he was a in the Harvard the tissue harvesting industry, and he had decided
- 2:00that a large group of people did not die in hospitals. That's where you
- 2:06typically would see tissue harvested. You see it on TV all the time that
- 2:10an accident victim goes to the hospital and they ask the family if they want
- 2:14to donate his organs. Well, one of the questions they also ask is
- 2:16whether you want to donate skin, tendon, ligament, bone, bone could
- 2:23be used for different procedures. Well, he recognized that you could most people
- 2:30die in their home, and that's a whole population to people that we could
- 2:35harvest tissue from and be able to do some good for medical purposes. So
- 2:42he went to the FDA and he got approval. They agreed with him,
- 2:45and they set up these guidelines. And the guidelines were that you had to
- 2:50get the individual's family consent, saying, just like when you're in a hospital,
- 2:58you have to sign a consent to take your body parts or organs.
- 3:02They had to sign a consent in the funeral Paula. And then he had
- 3:07to send a sample of blood to be analyzed, because when you're in a
- 3:10hospital, they could test the blood right there and see if you got disease.
- 3:15And he would have to take a sample of the blood and send it
- 3:16out. And once it became apparent that there was no disease, he was
- 3:23able to ship the tissue that he had harvested to these different tissue harvesting companies
- 3:30and they would put it out into the public. The only problem was that
- 3:34he had decided early on in the case that he really didn't need permission,
- 3:38that he would just sign the forms for consent on his own, that nobody
- 3:43would know he was harvesting the tissue. He also figured out that it didn't
- 3:46matter if the tissue was diseased or not, because all the tissue gets irradiated.
- 3:53A radiation is a process in which they kill all disease. And his
- 3:58understanding of the science was that once the tissue was irradiated that there would be
- 4:02no disease. And he was right, by the way, and I'll explain
- 4:05to you why he was right. But as far as getting permission, he
- 4:10didn't do that. And he turned the tissue harvesting business into a multi million
- 4:13dollar business until he got caught. The body parts in Long Island, that's
- 4:18a much different scenario. The body parts in Long Island is actually I can't
- 4:24wait to see what's going to happen here because obviously somebody died. They are
- 4:29not charged with the murder of that individual. So we have no idea how
- 4:35they came in possession of the bodies. Number one. Number two, we
- 4:42have no idea how that body expired. What was the cause of death.
- 4:47Number three, we don't know the manner of death. The manner of death
- 4:50would be. Was it homicide, was its suicide? Was it an accident.
- 4:57All we know is that they took possession of dead bodies. They desecrated
- 5:02them, which is a crime, and they got rid of them in the
- 5:10and they got rid of them in separate parks, which is, you know,
- 5:15unheard of if you're if you, I mean, I just don't understand
- 5:18the thought process. If you're actually doing what you're doing, why would you
- 5:24get rid of them in an area where people traverse. It just makes no
- 5:29sense. So now way should should they reach out to you for some advice
- 5:32to defense on this? Because I have experienced the body parts I with out
- 5:38of doubt they should reach out to me without of doubt. I don't know
- 5:41who's representing them. I thought I saw Legal Aid was representing them, So
- 5:47I don't know. Well, you know, in our last conversation about body
- 5:50parts, didn't you say you had to bring a leg into the courtroom?
- 5:53Is that is that? Did I hear that? Right? I brought a
- 5:56leg into a courtroom, but it wasn't a it wasn't part of the body
- 5:59part. So it was part of a demonstration that we used for a I
- 6:03think it was a Hamito surgery that I was involved with when I did medical
- 6:08malpractice defense, and I was showing how your toes are like your fingers and
- 6:13they have ligaments and tendons that make you bend your fingers. So I was
- 6:18using a human leg to demonstrate how that worked. You know, it's interesting
- 6:27you are, mister Aquittos, So tell us about your craft, a little
- 6:30more about the craft than maybe first time listeners don't know. How do you
- 6:32get acquittals. So it takes a lot of work. You got to understand
- 6:41the dynamic of your case, and you got to understand the dynamic of the
- 6:45community you're in. So, for example, Alex, we're in New York
- 6:48City. New York City is composed of five burrows. So the jury pool
- 6:56that you get in, say, the Bronx is different than the jury pool
- 7:01that you would get in Staten Island. So in the Bronx you could get
- 7:09even a plea boggin. That's different. For example, I had a double
- 7:13attempted murder in the first degree in the Bronx. In Staten Island a case
- 7:21like that, your offer would be probably close to thirty five or forty years
- 7:28in jail. In the Bronx, the offer on that case was nine years
- 7:34on a possession of a weapon. It's so you have to know who your
- 7:44community is that you try in the case in front of that's number one.
- 7:49Number two, you need to have all the facts. You need to know
- 7:54every starge. You need to know what the police are going to say,
- 7:56you need to know what the victim's going to say. You need to asked
- 8:00every bit of evidence. When I say to every bit of evidence. As
- 8:03you remember, Alex, in the last episode, we discussed a search warrant
- 8:09and how a search warran't works. Well, that would be something that we
- 8:11would do in every case involving a search warrant. But let's take a case
- 8:18that doesn't involve a search warrant. Let's take a case where somebody's accused the
- 8:22possession of a weapon. Where somebody is driving down the street gets pulled over
- 8:28for a traffic infraction. So that's easy, right, you're driving, you
- 8:31were speeding, police pull you over. Now, when the police pull you
- 8:35over, they have the right to ask you for your license, your registration,
- 8:39your insurance card. They have the right to look into what they can
- 8:43see in the car, if they see any because it's for their own safety.
- 8:50And that's about it. Now, we see a lot of cases where
- 8:54we call it a pretext stop, where the police will pull you over for
- 9:01a ticket that nobody could see nobody sees a crime, but they could say
- 9:07something like, well you wandered over the double yellow line. Now who could
- 9:13test that. Most of these cars don't have MVRs, which are the motive
- 9:16vehicle recorders, so you don't see that. Everybody's got a body warn camera.
- 9:22You do see that. But they'll walk over to a car and they'll
- 9:26they'll start questioning them. Then they'll ask them to get out of the car
- 9:30because they think they see something, and then they'll search you for their own
- 9:33safety, and they'll find a gun. So it's my job to test that
- 9:37system. Did they have a reason to stop you? Did they have a
- 9:41reason to ask you get out of the car. Did they have a reason
- 9:43to question you other than the questions they needed for prep the materials they need
- 9:50you, name, your address, all of that information. So that's how
- 9:56you do it. You start at the very bottom. You know when Juliannie,
- 10:01who I loved started as mayor re started what we call broken windows.
- 10:07Start at the bottom. If you start arresting people for jumping over a turnstyle,
- 10:11they'll stop jumping over a turnstyle. Alvin bragged. The current District Attorney
- 10:16in Manhattan disagrees with that system, as we all know. That's why we
- 10:20have absolute bedlam and incivility in our subway system, so much so we have
- 10:26to bring the army, the army in to patrol the New York City subway
- 10:31system. But broken windows also applies to criminal defense. If you start at
- 10:39the bottom, you start at the very beginning of the case, and you
- 10:41test every single piece of evidence from the moment a person was arrested until the
- 10:46moment they were prosecuted. Make sure that the prosecution does everything they're supposed to
- 10:50do. You hold their feet right to the fire. That's what we That's
- 10:56what I do. That's what I do. I test every single and I've
- 11:00been doing it for thirty four years on both sides, So I have experienced
- 11:07that very few other lawyers have. I've seen just about every scenario you could
- 11:13think of. I mean, look, I had a body parts case.
- 11:16How many lawyers in this country could say they represented somebody that was illegally harvesting
- 11:22tissue from a funeral pall. How many people could say that. They've probably
- 11:26done over one hundred murder trials to verdict. There aren't many lawyers that I
- 11:33know of that could say that, and on a regular day. Today,
- 11:37for example, I had on my calendar. Let's see today is March twelfth.
- 11:45So I started the day in New Jersey where the DWI and Municipal Court
- 11:50in Mammouth County. I then went to Staten Island. I represented a young
- 11:56man on a misdemeanor for driving with his licensespect. From there, I went
- 12:01to a guy that assaulted a guy in a gas station with a knife.
- 12:05From there, I went to a murder where my client has a great self
- 12:09defense issue. From there, I went to a possession of a gun in
- 12:13exactly what I just told you, Alex, a car stop where they found
- 12:18a gun in the guy's backseat. And not only did they find a gun,
- 12:22this is a great story. My client's wife owns that gun. My
- 12:28client's wife licensed to have that gun. My client's wife bought that gun.
- 12:35My client's wife used that gun. My client's wife pulled a car and hug
- 12:41garage in New Jersey and, unbeknownst to her, her husband, the next
- 12:46morning drove her car to stan Island and he double parked it in front of
- 12:52a fire hydrant, which got the police to the scene. When the police
- 12:56came to the scene, my client had a war rent for failing to pay
- 13:03one of those camera tickets you get all over New York, mostly on stan
- 13:09Isllen because you don't see any cameras in the Bronx, you see them all
- 13:13over stan Island. He failed to pay a fifty dollars ticket and there was
- 13:18a warrant issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Where's fail to do that?
- 13:22And what happened after that? They took him into the precinct. They
- 13:26searched the car and what's called an inventory search, because of course the police
- 13:31have to ensure that you're not going to say they stole anything, and inventory
- 13:35search revealed the gun in the back of the car. They arrested my client
- 13:39for the gun, and now they're offering him the minimum. They're offering the
- 13:41minimum two years. Now. Is that the guy that we're worried about.
- 13:46Is that the guy that should go to jail? Or is that the guy
- 13:50that we should say, I'm sorry, we didn't realize it was your wife's
- 13:54gun. We didn't realize it was legally purchased. We didn't realize you didn't
- 13:56know it was in the backseat of the car. He's not a gang bang
- 14:00he's never been in trouble in his life. He owns full of businesses.
- 14:03But that's the guy that they're choosing to prosecute. My goodness, I love
- 14:09this is what I to do the show with you. I love your passion,
- 14:11your energy for this, and you're right, it does feel like the
- 14:13little guy's getting stepped on more than the violent criminal. Can I just say
- 14:18that here on the mister quittal, But look look at the woman that smashed
- 14:22the cello, was in the head with a bottle and was let right out
- 14:26of jail with a prior record and warrants. But that was Manhatten. You
- 14:31can do anything you want in Manhattan. They embold them to do what they
- 14:35want. On a weekend podcast, I was talking about this. I said,
- 14:39there's a three pronged assault against New York. Maybe you agree with me,
- 14:41Mario. First prong is the fact that a D eight in Manhattan,
- 14:46Alvin Bragg is lessening felonies to misdemeanors almost all the time. So that's easing
- 14:52veil reform to let people back on the streets, as you just referenced.
- 14:54Then you got the border crisis and just judges that are not willing to actually
- 15:01apply the law. I mean, this is a prong assault on New York.
- 15:03How do we fix that? Well, it's going to be very difficult.
- 15:09You got Hoko, who's meaningless, so she could remove Alvin Brandt.
- 15:13She won't. So you need somebody to run against them. But you know
- 15:16what, somebody runs against them. And it's so New York has become so
- 15:22left and it's so And I'm not a political person. I want the best
- 15:26man for the job, whether they're a Democrat or Republican. If I think
- 15:30you are the best person for that job, then you deserve to have that
- 15:35job. Not you know, these guys have their own agenda. Look at
- 15:39what they did on bail reform. Bail reform and I'm a criminal defense attorney.
- 15:45Used to be that I would have to sit and argue just about on
- 15:48every case that they not be any bail for my client. Now I don't
- 15:52have to do that at all. I just sit there in the DM lets
- 15:54everybody go, everybody go. The ball reform system originally gave the judges no
- 15:58discretion. Now they have discretion. Now they have some discretion to look at
- 16:03somebody's prior warrant history, the crime itself and make a determination after looking at
- 16:10all the factors on whether this person is not only gonna return to court,
- 16:14but a danger to the community. So for the most part, you have
- 16:18judges that will follow that, except in Manhattan. So if you get arrested
- 16:22in Manhattan for smashing somebody in the head with a bottle, that judge will
- 16:27release you. Deep bread, believe it or not. Actually had his office
- 16:32asked for bell in that case, which was surprising because in Manhattan they usually
- 16:37you can just walk out the door, unless, of course, you're Donald
- 16:41Trump, then no, no, no, no no. Or you're a
- 16:45businessman then no no no, no, no no no. But if you
- 16:48got a gun, or you hit somebody else, or you beat somebody on
- 16:52a subway, that guy is who gets out. If you're an honest businessman
- 16:57who makes a mistake in his taxes, you're gonna get prosecuted. You're gonna
- 17:02be on the front page of the paper and they're asking you to go to
- 17:04jail. But you know, I digress for a second here. So you
- 17:10have judges. The problem in Manhattan is you got a da who is does
- 17:15nothing. You got some judges who do nothing. The prosecutors in his own
- 17:22office discussed with us all the time, how their hands are tied because he's
- 17:29got all these rules. I will not allowed to ask for bail. I
- 17:30are not allowed to do this. I are not allowed to do that.
- 17:33But if you, if you, if you are uh, you know,
- 17:37a right wing person or a Republican, you're gonna get prost. Look at
- 17:41Letitia James. Look at what she has done to the New York business structure.
- 17:49So Donald Trump is accused of inflating his income in order to get loans
- 18:00to do construction. So number one, if he inflated the value of his
- 18:07investments, it would be incumbent upon the people giving him the money to make
- 18:15a decision on whether he has the collateral or not. When you apply for
- 18:23a mortgage on your home and you say I make two hundred thousand dollars a
- 18:32year, you have to verify that. When you say I have no credit
- 18:37card debt, they verify that. When you say I have you know,
- 18:44this asset and this asset, and I'll be able to afford my fifteen hundred
- 18:48dollars a month mortgage, they they do that. Well, every single loan
- 18:55that Donald Trump took out. These lenders looked into all of that information.
- 19:03They looked at what he said, well, I own this building, and
- 19:07this building is worth a billion dollars. Do you think that the people lending
- 19:12him the money said, oh, okay, mister Trump, it's a billion
- 19:15dollars. Or do you think they looked and said, oh, you know
- 19:18what, it's probably worth a billion dollars and they based it upon something.
- 19:22Letician James is taking that and saying that he defrauded these By the way,
- 19:29every one of those loans was paid back with interest. Nobody, not even
- 19:33the people that loaned on the money, testified in his favor. This is
- 19:37a woman, This is a woman in charge of law enforcement that is now
- 19:45politically politicizing, using her job as a weapon to destroy her opposition. What
- 19:56does that sound like, alex That sounds like Russia. That sounds like a
- 20:00communist country. That's what happens in China. If you're a dissident, you
- 20:06go to jail. So in Letitia James's world, if she don't like you,
- 20:11or you stand for something that's against what she believes in, you're gonna
- 20:15get prosecuted by her. Donald Trump, I sent in my last podcast,
- 20:21and I'm you don't have to be a Trump fan, you have to be
- 20:23a fan of the United States of America, and if you do not see
- 20:30what they are doing to this country by politicizing the Department of Justice, politicize
- 20:37the using politics as a weapon to bury those people that oppose them. It's
- 20:45a very, very, very scary slope that we are going down. And
- 20:52it's one that our future is at stake in this election. Our future is
- 20:56at stake. It's gone to the point where you know, we can't even
- 21:00have an election without possibly removing Trump. I mean, there is now insane.
- 21:03It's getting where where these people, these states want to remove them off
- 21:07the ballot. That's such a legal mess that these states are Finally, I
- 21:11mean, the state of Main was a main Main decided, well, we
- 21:15don't want him on the ballot. One person made that, Deceasse. I
- 21:17don't want him on the ballot because he's an insurrection is He's never been acute
- 21:19of insurrection. He was never charged with an insurrection. I represented two guys
- 21:25charge in that case. His name's not mentioned anywhere in any of discovery except
- 21:30for the fact that he gave a speech. All right, well, let's
- 21:33let's get a lighter note here for Mario, because you're also a big sports
- 21:37fan, and I know you want to talk about this that that you know,
- 21:40Brian Cashman did that overnight with you and it was great with the Covenant
- 21:45House and now he's dealing with some real issues on the Yankees. But as
- 21:51a sports fan, are you heartbroken today? Is a Yankee and Giant fan
- 21:53or where where do you say what's trying on with the sports? I tell
- 21:56you what, I'm not a Giant fan, but I'm a swarm Barkley and
- 22:00the abuse that that man has taken is uncalled for. And I could tie
- 22:03these two things together. Brian Cashman and I have slept out for Covenant House
- 22:08for at least ten years together. Covenant House is an organization, as you
- 22:12know, I strongly believe in. They are a charity that raises awareness and
- 22:18money and housing and education for homeless teenagers throughout the world. And every year
- 22:26we have a sleepout and we sleep homeless and Brian Cashman did it with me
- 22:30for a number of years and we raise money and awareness for Covenant House.
- 22:34So last year, the Yankees, you know, the Yankees being the Yankees
- 22:37in the predicament, they were mister Cashman had it probably worked to put the
- 22:41team together. And I'm telling you right now, I woke up with a
- 22:44stomach ache when I saw Aaron Judge and Garrick Cole may now be out for
- 22:48the beginning of the season. That it's like a Yankee KnightMan every year with
- 22:53these injuries. So and then to tie it all together this year, you
- 23:00know who I slept out with. I believe he did it with He slept
- 23:04out with Saquan Is that correct? Taekwon Barkley. So this year, the
- 23:08Giants were nice enough to invite us to the Metallands to sleep on the field
- 23:15homeless, and they donated a lot of money to Covenant House. And that's
- 23:19why we did it. I did not notice, but after every single game
- 23:29home or away, Saquon Barkley meets with homeless teenagers and he takes them to
- 23:37dinner and hangs out with them, discusses with them what they're doing, how
- 23:45could he help them? And he's a big, big, big supporter of
- 23:49that, cause that's something that he doesn't advertise. And I'm sorry I'm talking
- 23:53about this, Sekuan, but you are a gentleman and now you get these
- 23:59people. The Giants basically told him to f off without saying f off.
- 24:07And look, I'm not a general manager. I have no idea why you
- 24:10made that decision. You made that decision. Now he gets an offer that
- 24:15can not only help him as a person, but his family financially, could
- 24:18set him up for the rest of his life. It happens to come from
- 24:22the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, what happened when we got Johnny Damon, when
- 24:26we got Ucless, when we got who's the stinky outfield? We got that
- 24:32played for us for about an hour to kobe Elsbury. If I'm Elsbury to
- 24:36kobe Elsbury, he played for fifteen minutes and got paid what thirty million dollars.
- 24:40So I don't understand why you get these people that are like down on
- 24:45Saquan he did what was he They threw him away and he said, all
- 24:49right, I'll leave. The guy's nothing but the gentleman. And I feel
- 24:53really bad for the abuse he's taken, really bad. And you know what,
- 24:57this Tiki barb but thing, I love Tiki, He's a nice guy.
- 25:00Listened to him in the morning, the afternoon, listen to Boom in
- 25:03the morning, and listen to Tiki in the afternoon. I'm upset that Saquon
- 25:07went back, and I really believe that Tiki was just being funny. I
- 25:11don't think that Tiki was being kind hearted or mean spirited, because you know,
- 25:17Tiki was the consummate professional when he played ball. I love his show,
- 25:21and I think that he was just just rousing Saquon. I was actually
- 25:25surprised that sat Quan took it so personally. Yeah, well no, I
- 25:30was gonna say. You are a lawyer first and a sports fan second.
- 25:33And also you go to the gymalot. I noticed you were awarded by Peloton.
- 25:37So when you combine sports and your workout, how does that help you
- 25:41become a better lawyer? Let me ask you that. So, you know,
- 25:44I almost died from COVID, and you know, people say that I
- 25:48always want people say hello to me. I always say they say how are
- 25:52you? I always say I'm fantastic. I never had a bad day in
- 25:55my life. And people will say, what are you talking about? You
- 25:59almost died from COVID. You were in a hospital for a month, in
- 26:03ICU for eleven days. They brought in a priest to read you last rites.
- 26:07Your wife was told you're gonna die, and that you should start making
- 26:11arrangements. That was the best day of my life. You know why that
- 26:15was the best day of my life, Alex, because I realized that I
- 26:18got comfortable. I realized that I was getting fat and out of shape and
- 26:26not taking care of myself. And as a result of that, that's why
- 26:30I got COVID so bad. As a result of being out of shape and
- 26:36not taking care of myself, I suffered. So that day is the day
- 26:40that I decided that I could do something about this. I can lose weight.
- 26:45It's an easy equation, Alex, it really is. People make such
- 26:48a big deal that it is eat less and exercise more. You don't need
- 26:53what gol be. You just need to stop eating all the food and the
- 26:59wrong food, food and exercise. And that's what I did, and I'm
- 27:03down one hundred pounds now. Wake up every morning at four point thirty I
- 27:06get a workout him before I go to work. I feel good every morning.
- 27:11So getting COVID was the best day of my life. It was an
- 27:14eye opener that created the re made a better do you know, as a
- 27:18result of getting COVID, I no longer have to take blood pressure medication.
- 27:22I no longer have to take cholesterol medication. All is a result of just
- 27:27losing weight and being healthy. All right, Well, I'm glad you mentioned
- 27:32COVID because I want to go all extra time with you here, Mario in
- 27:33episode four about the court system, the changes that we saw during COVID,
- 27:38where a lot of trials were taking place on zoom. I mean, is
- 27:44there now a hybrid or are you in the courtroom now more so than you
- 27:47were? You know in twenty twenty one twenty two, Say so criminal law
- 27:52never went you could never do a trial criminal by virtual. So I tried
- 28:00the first criminal case in Richmond County after COVID. I tried in May of
- 28:04twenty twenty one, and at that point my client had been in jail for
- 28:10almost three years because of the COVID delay, and we took precautions and we
- 28:15did, you know, we did well what we can do with respect to
- 28:19jurys. So I have seen that as a result of jury selection being streamlined
- 28:26because of COVID, it is something that we use now that is actually beneficial,
- 28:32something that we you know, to do. Jury selection during COVID gave
- 28:37us the opportunity to experiment and see things that are now in place now when
- 28:41we do jury selection. In addition to that, we now know that some
- 28:48things can be done virtually. There's no reason to bring somebody all the way
- 28:52into court. So a lot of people complain about bail there in jail.
- 28:56How about the average Joe Schmoe that gets some BS criminal thing for whatever DWI
- 29:03say, and he works and he has to take a day off to go
- 29:07to court and do whatever he has to do. Now we find that these
- 29:12lesser crimes can be easily easily done virtually, Which what does that mean?
- 29:18That means that that guy that would have to take a day off to go
- 29:22to court can now sit in his office and do a virtual court appearance along
- 29:26with his lawyer, which allows everybody to work more efficiently and makes the system
- 29:33a lot more streamlined, which allows us now to concentrate on the more serious
- 29:38cases and get them through the criminal justice system at a much much quicker rate.
- 29:45Do you think following protocol sorry, do you think following go ahead?
- 29:49Do you think following protocols you know, as strictly as you had to during
- 29:53the COVID years, not not needing to anymore has made your life easier because
- 29:57not only are you depending on try I had to go through all these protocols
- 30:00just to get in the courtroom. Right, Oh, it's crazy. You
- 30:03had to wear a mask, you had to do your hands, had it
- 30:06stay six feet behind somebody. You couldn't go to the court roof, there's
- 30:07more than ten people. It was, it was, it was, it
- 30:11was crazy. And now they're finding out that none of that was even necessary.
- 30:17But I stepped over there, So tell us what you were gonna tell
- 30:19us before that question, cibil. I don't do a lot of civil work,
- 30:22but the civil courts are now still almost all virtual because they found out
- 30:27that it's much more efficient to do it that way. So you have an
- 30:32insurance company that's defending a case and they're going to spend, you know,
- 30:34thousands of dollars to send the lawyer to court to sit around for six hours
- 30:40waiting for his case to get called, where he could just sign in for
- 30:42a pre scheduled time and a virtual conference, and it saves everybody money and
- 30:48it's much more efficient. So civil court is actually still of mostly virtual as
- 30:53compared to criminal court. Well, this has been a great reconnect to start
- 30:59twenty twenty four. I feel like we can go on forever, but we
- 31:00gotta let the audience want more. Right, So, if you want more,
- 31:04where can they reach you, Mario to tell them what they think of
- 31:07the show and whatnot. Well, they could reach me at the law firm,
- 31:11at the Glucci Law Firm, contact us and be happy to talk to
- 31:15you about the show. They can follow me on Twitter, they can follow
- 31:19the Glucci Law Firm on Facebook, they can follow the Glucci Law Firm on
- 31:22Instagram. We're all over on every social platform except for that talkie talk whatever
- 31:27they call that. Well, we got to get into this, into it
- 31:32this spring because I feel like when the weather changes, crime tends to go
- 31:36up, and I feel like that makes your business a little better because you
- 31:37get to defend more as the weather heats up. Is that right? Especially
- 31:41Dwy's a lot of people like to go to barbecues and have a little too
- 31:45much to drink. Remember Uber uber El On that note, say two of
- 31:51us for the spring edition of Mister Aquino with Mario Galucci. But Mario,
- 31:56this has been a great start to our twenty twenty four campaign. Thank you,
- 31:59thank you. It is a pleasure. Alex Is always thank you Mario
- 32:01Gluta. You are a criminal defense attorney with over thirty three years of experience,
- 32:07recognized as one of the top lawyers in New York and New Jersey,
- 32:09and once again they can reach you by calling eight eight eight three sixty nine
- 32:14oh six seven four no obligation right pre obligation eight at eight three six nine
- 32:21oh six seven four and email you at Mario at the Galucci Law Firm dot
- 32:28com. Thanks Alex, as always it was it was a pleasure sitting down
- 32:30with you and doing this again. This has been Mario Glucci's mister acquittal defending
- 32:36the right to the people on the Alex Gurritt podcast Network