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Mr. Acquittal Episode 3 Ft. Mario Gallucci and the Gallucci Law Firm 3-18-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host to Alex Derrett. Hey everyone, I'm Alex Garrett, and
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yes this is the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. But I'm proud to welcome mister
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Mario Galucci and Mario Galucci's Mister Acquittal Defending the Rights of the People. See
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this podcast is on the Garrett Network and we have been privileged to have tens
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of thousands of people listening to podcasts on our platform. But now I'm very
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happy to introduce one of the top criminal attorneys in the country, Mario Galucci,
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and welcome back Mario once again, the Mister Acquittal. It's your show.
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So I want us to after the new year, you know, I
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want you to take the stage here and tell us what you've been up to
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since the start of twenty twenty four. Let's start there. So, Alex,
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I got to tell you it's a big week here over in the United
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States and the world because on Sunday it was March tenth, and you would
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abbreviate that mar one zero a Mario. So March tenth is Super Mario Day
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and I got to celebrate it with my family and the people I work with.
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We had cake today to keep the celebration going and it's a day that
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we celebrate all Marios throughout the world, including Well how about that? And
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I know, I know you are a crowd Italian American heritage, aren't you?
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Oh? Absolutely? Absolutely? Born and raised Italian parents, Italian grandparents,
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Italian go for dual citizenship, you know, like I always say,
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Alex, the Italians. We found it Christopher Columba Columbus. We named it
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Vespucci Americano and we built it so if it wasn't for Italians, they want
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to be a United States of America. And quite honestly, it's named after
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an Italian. Absolutely, and I know that you had you had a big
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start to So tell us what's going on with Margot? Did you Last time
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we left off, we talked about the holidays and you know, criminal defense
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around the holidays, and what really touched me last time we talked, Mario,
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was that you were you able to go visit some of your clients while
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they were in prison. And does that continue in the new year. I'm
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sure you've had that and other things happening for you. This this started twenty
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twenty four, So twenty twenty four started with a bang. I have I'm
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supposed to start a very big murder trial in Ocean County, New Jersey.
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I don't want to give the name of the case, but it's a significant
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case. I understand that it may be a Netflix trial, meaning that Netflix
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has been taking photographs and video of some of the court proceedings, and they've
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been following me around and following the prosecutor, I believe, around. And
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we start that on April twenty third. I'm looking forward to it. That's
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going to be a seven week murder trial. I just started hearings, very
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interesting hearings. Actually, it's called a Sarrah hearing, and a Sarrah hearing
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is a hearing that the prosecutor tries to get in previous testimony of a victim
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without the victim actually testifying. So you say, how does that work.
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So let's say Alex Garrett is a victim of some crime and Alex Garrett doesn't
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want to come and cooperate with the district attorney's office. Well, that's all
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well and fine, unless the District attorney's office is able to prove that the
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reason why Alex Garrett doesn't want to testify is because the defendant in the case
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has threatened him in some way that he's become afraid to come in and testify.
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So in the case I have right now, we've started hearings on that
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case. It's called the Sarah Hearing. My client is accused of kidnapping an
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individual and she does not want to testify as a matter of fact, she
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wants to testify for me, the defendant in the case. So the district
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attorney has started these hearings and they have a bunch of phone calls because,
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as you know, every phone call while you're in prison is taped, and
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they tell you as soon as you make the phone call. And I don't
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understand this. I see it all the time. I tell my clients don't
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talk on the phone. You could say I love you, honey, I'll
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see it someday. You know, what are you eating for dinner? But
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don't talk about the case. And inevitably even ask after they get that warning
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that this phone call is being recorded, what do they do? They talk
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immediately about the case. So in this case, the district attorney has about
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fifteen hundred separate phone calls that they are going to try and introduce it this
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hearing. Fifteen hundred you mean, your client talk about this fifteen hundred times
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fifteen hundred and thirty six to be exact. That's just. And as a
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criminal defense attorney, that must feel so boneheaded. You know, you gotta
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talk to your client, like what are you doing right? You know,
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alex I opened say, I could lead the horse to water, but I
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cannot make them drink. It's it's amazing at the amount of, you know,
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times that I'll tell a client, you know, don't talk to this
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person, don't do this. I'll give you a perfect example. I got
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a call one time from a client who was the middle of the night.
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It was one o'clock in the morning. He called me up and he said,
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the police are at his door. The police are at my door.
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I go, are they inside your place? No, they're not. I
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go, well, that means that you shouldn't open the door, because if
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they had a search warrant, they'd be inside your house. Don't open the
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door. Don't open the door. And guess what he did. He opened
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the door. He opened the door. They executed a search warrant, they
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found you know, they came in, they found a lot of contrabandis and
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he was arrested. When all he really had to do was allow me the
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opportunity to speak to the speak to the officers that were at the scene,
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and try to resolve it without them going into his home. But like I
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said, you could lead a host to water, but you can't make them
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drink. I wish I had a nickel for every time a client did something
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that we told them not to do and they did it so well, obviously
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you are you are one of the you are the top ranked, you know,
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a criminal defense attorney, So obviously get a lot of acquittals, you
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get a lot of wins. So how does a client overcome that to become
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acquitted? If you were like, how do they overcome those? Bone them
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as sakes? What's your advice? So my advice usually is then I have
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to take a look at the law and see if law enforcement followed the proper
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procedures that go along with executing a search warner on a rest warrant, to
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see if the arrest was legal, to see if the actual facts they have
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in the search warn illegal. So sometimes a search horn is not at least
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on offices observations, but they're based on what you call a confidential informant.
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So a citizen could say, you know, on such and such a day,
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I was in such and such a house and I saw a loaded firearm.
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So without any other indisha of proof that this person is reliable or has
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ever given any information before, it's very unlikely that they would get a search
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warrant. So it's up to somebody like me to test that system, and
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we ask for hearings on that. In this case, it would be called
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what's called a Darden hearing, where we where we request a judge to review
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the veracity of the person giving the information to the judge to get a search
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warrant, and if that person is non law enforcement, and I'll explain the
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difference. If that person is non law enforcement, like I just explained a
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confidential informant, then it would go, you know, one way where we
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get this hearing to darden hearing. But let's just say that an undercovera off
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a certain part of law enforcement buys drugs from you in your house. Now
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that's a laursen warned and those are much more difficult to overcome. But there
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are actually ways around that too. I mean I had a very significant case
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where I had a client who every single time a drug dealer would have a
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phone call to meet somebody. They would stop at my client's house and my
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client would order pizza and they'd have pizza, and then this person would go
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and sell drugs. So the prosecutors got a search warrant for the home of
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the pizza ordering guy, and they found drugs there. But I was able
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to demonstrate to the judge that there was no INNDHA to say that my client,
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who was ordering pizza, had anything to do with any of the drug
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dealing. He wasn't part of any conversation, he wasn't part of any investigation
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that led them to believe that he had drugs in the house, and that
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actually was dismissed. The case against my client was dismissed because they had no
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probable cause to execute that war. We're talking with Mario Galucci on his show
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Mister Quos. Mario, I feel like we've gotten into this, but you
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know, my favorite question to ask you around this time, what's firing you
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up today? Mario? What's fired me up today is Jimmy Kimmel. Jim
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Jimmy Kimmel cracks me up. So you know, Jimmy Kimmel does the Academy
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Awards, and I love the Academy Awards. This year was it was probably
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one of the least controversial Academy Awards we've seen in a very, very,
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very long time. I especially liked Ryan Gosling. I'd love to hang out
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with Ryan Gosling. What do you think about that? I'd bet you if
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you hung out with Ryan Gosling, you'd have a great night. Daisy Man's
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man, right, Yeah, he does his craft. He does a great
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job at it. He seems to take life pretty easy and easy going.
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And you know, you never see him in the news for getting in trouble.
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You never see him in the news of being outspoken. And then you
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get a guy like Jimmy Kimmel, a guy like Jimmy ca who hasn't even
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graduated college. I believe he got an honorary PhD from Las Vegas University.
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I don't know if I'm right on that, but I think his educational background
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was an honorary doctorate from Las Vegas University, a university that I understand that
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he dropped out of. And he's the one that needs to all the time
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bringing the political fodder. I don't understand what qualifies him to be a political
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fodderist, if that is such a word. But for some reason, Jimmy
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Kimmel believes that this is his forum and his fortec. A college dropout should
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be a political analyst. He should stay in his lane. His lane as
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being a host of a talk show. You know, you bring on a
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chimpanzee and I'll interviewed him. You'll bring on you know, you bring on
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some guy who wrote a book, and you interviewed him. I don't know
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why he finds it necessary to jump into political forum, but he does.
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But you know what that being said, Donald Trump gives it to him too.
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You know, Trump should just trump store him. Why why even give
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him the satisfaction? Actually, by Trump going back at him, you're actually
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he's actually given him some credibility. So I don't understand that. When I
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when I meet Donald next, I'm gonna have to mention that to him.
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Why are you even giving this guy any credibility? Just leave him alone.
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Let Jimmy Kimmel stain his lane, talk about his books. You know what
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else is annoying me, Alex, This this manusquon basketball team. And I
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played high school sports, I played college sports, and I understand how upsetting
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it is to lose a game the way they lost the game, But you
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know this is the day and age. Do they want like a participation trophy,
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which is something else. I hate participation trophies. I could see no
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reason why anybody should get a participation trophy. But put that aside. So
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let's take that Manusquon basketball game. You have a blown call. It's obviously
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it's a blow call. But if we go minute by minute in that game,
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I'm sure there were many blown calls. I'm sure there were many fouls
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that got unnoticed. I'm sure there are many things that were called fouls that
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weren't fouls that if we went second by second in every single game, no
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matter Manasquan, no matter the New York Knicks, no matter the New York
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Giants, which we'll get to, there's always there's always going to be an
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issue with something. And for them to take this all the way to a
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court system, the courts, to overturn a high school referees decisions, it
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blows my mind. And this is the generation we get. This is what
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we get. We get a bunch of kids that get participation trophies, that
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think it's there right now to appeal the Rep's decision to a court. Well,
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you know, it's just I've never seen a game get legal action like
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that. Maybe you have in your time, but I've never seen that taking
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the legals from You're right on that. Has it happened before? I've never
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seen it. I know we had I know the New York Knicks had a
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blown call a couple of weeks ago, and they appealed it to the league
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and the league said that's not appealable. So yeah, it just blowed.
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I mean, this is the day and age we're in. I mean,
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it's it's just once we started handing our participation trophies, this is when things
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like Manasquan start to take place. Now. I guess the other thing was,
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you know, two referees overruled the one, so majority rules in that
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case. Also, right, yes, absolutely absolutely. Well you mentioned Trump
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and since we last talked, he's only been fined what three hundred and fifty
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million, and you know it's just been quite a massive to fifty million.
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How about the money he owes to the leaging Carroll right, yeah, yeah,
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yeah, he owes a woman that he claims he never met before.
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All right, let's think about this. He claims he never met her before.
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She claims that she met him over twenty years ago in addressing rooms somewhere,
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and I think it was like a Bamberger's or Lord and Taylor, you
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know, one of these department stores, and that he sexually assaulted her out
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of nowhere. He met her and sexually assaulted her in a department store.
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When it happened over twenty years ago. She never went to the police to
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make a complaint. She never went to the store to make a complaint.
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But once, you know, he started, you know, winning things and
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becoming president, and you know, this whole this whole left wing conspiracy.
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And I'm not a conspiracy thea. I am really not a conspiracy guy.
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But let's look at what they're doing to this poor guy. This guy runs
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for president. They have the Steel Docierre right, Russian collusion in the election,
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which they find out not only is not true, but that Hillary Clinton's
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team is behind that Hillary Clinton who's married to Bill Clinton, who's having sex
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in the White House and flying around with Epstein. They're the ones that start
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the steal doos here. Then we go we become president. Nancy Pelosi the
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day gives the State of the Union address, rips up his speech, which
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is a crime. That's a crime, that's destruction of an official document that
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would go into the National archives. She ripped it up. Could you imagine
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today if today's Speaker of the House ripped up Biden's speech while he was doing
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his speeches State of the Union, wouldn't happen. Nancy Pelosi stood behind Trump
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and made faces at him the whole time. They're talking about division. Division.
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If that's not the greatest example of division, I don't know what is.
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He's being prosecuted more than Gotti, more than Capone, more than any
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other sing whether like him or not. As a citizen of the United States,
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you have to say to yourself, why is our country going in a
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direction where one side could use political leverage to take down and destroy an opponent.
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This is what goes on in Russia. This isn't what goes on in
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the United States. This it's an utmost disgrace what's going on in our country
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with respect to this election? Uh? And I know you know the City
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Union this past Thursday, he was really going at it with Republican instead of
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really focusing on the speech. I thought he wasn't focused on the speech.
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At some points you just point to interact with the crowd. And that's not
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what was presidential to me about Biden. All right, say Alex, he
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has no there's nothing for the man to say. He's got nothing that he
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could possibly say except on basheilor Republicans. He's failed into economics, he's failed
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at the border crisis. He's failed on the international stage. We're a laughing
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stock to China, We're a laughing stock to Russia. Israel is bearing with
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us right now because we're giving them all these weapons. But now you just
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dismissed them. How could he possibly say we're going to have a ceasefire last
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Sunday when he never even confirmed that with net Nau, who's in charge of
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the country and drawing red lines that he then withdrew and said, no,
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no, no, no, no no. I never said that. You
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know, to be on the border crisis, because you are of the legal
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mindset, you do get acquittals. I had asks, but have any migrant
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sort of help ask for your help during this time? Are there ones that
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are maybe being falsely accused of situations going on in the city and elsewhere.
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So what we're seeing now is a first of all, no, I haven't
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a lot of the migrants who are getting in trouble like they're given free housing,
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they're given free food, they're given free transportation. They're also given free
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lawyers. So if they get in trouble, they're generally represented by the Legal
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Aid Society, which is a great organization. I'm not knocking the organization,
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but they days these people are represented by by you know, indigen defenders.
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Because the government allows that to happen. There's very little oversight on who's entitled
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to a free attorney and who has to pay for an attorney. I had
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a guy in here. I don't remember if I told you this, but
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I had a guy in here for a DWI about two months ago. And
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I'm looking at his case and his case is old, and in the case
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I see that he was driving a Maserati and I'm like, a mazarati.
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How did you get legal aid? And he got? He said to me,
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they gave me a free lawyer. I'm a businessman, so I said,
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why should I pay for a lawyer if they give me a free one.
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And it wasn't until I realized that the free lawyer wasn't doing much for
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me that I now knew I needed, uh, you know, a private
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lawyer. So that's that's what's going on there. And and these these migrants
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are you know, there's good one. Look, there's good in bed and
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everything. There are. There are migrants that come here that truly need asylum.
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There are people that are persecuted in their own country and they come here
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and and for for asylum. But we also are seeing a lot of people
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come here who have criminal ideals and are doing things in their own country and
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are coming here to disrupt ours. Did you see the article on the paper
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the other day where they're selling fake social Security cards, IDs and everything on
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on a street in Queens. The New York Post, which is doing a
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great job, uh, the New York host sent out an undercover reporter who
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is able to secure for himself a driver's license, a social Security card and
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something in addition to that, able to open up a business, able to
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he was able to do everything. So it's crazy, just crazy, what's
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going on? Well, you know, we are almost out of time for
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this episode, but come back for another episode, Mario, and we'll talk
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more about some really interesting things going on. It's four years since the pandemic.
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I want to get your take on how the law and the legalism has
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changed in the post pandemic world, during the COVID world, and of course
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a body parts case in Long Island. We gotta get into that in our
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next episode. Absolutely I had the most famous body parts case. Mario de
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lud say, you are a criminal defense attorney with over thirty three years of
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experience, recognized as one of the top lawyers in New York and New Jersey.
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And once again they can reach you by calling eight eight eight three six
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nine nine O six seventy four no obligation right pre obligation eight eight three sixty
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nine O six seven four and email you at Mario at the Galucci Law Firm
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dot com. Thanks Alex, as always it was it was a pleasure sitting
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down with you and doing this again. This has been Mario Gluci's mister acquittal
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defending the rights to the people on the Alex Gurritt Podcast Network