Dr. Jamie Binnall, author of Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System, discusses the exclusion of persons with felony convictions from jury service.

Power in Prosecuting: The Choices One Person Makes in the System

Jan 16th, 2021 1h 23m

This week, Cody Duran hosts Professor Darrell Jackson, J.D., Ph. D. a Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Prosecution Assistance Program at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Professor Jackson discusses a wide range of issue

Episode 5: The Reality of the All-White Jury

Nov 25th, 2020 1h 34m

Lauren and Nathan sit down to discuss the role of race in the jury selection process. Despite a lot of rhetoric from the courts about ending racism in the criminal justice process, jury selection remains on of the most transparent areas of race

Episode 4: Organizing for Criminal Justice Reform

Nov 17th, 2020 54m 47s

Lauren sits down with Karlee Provenza, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wyoming, community organizer, and newly elected State House Representative, to discuss issues in the criminal justice system at the local and national levels. Spec

Episode 3: Dehumanizing: White America’s Justification for Police Brutality

Nov 2nd, 2020 1h 22m

In this weeks episode, Matt Klein sits down with Dr. Frederick Douglas Dixon of the University of Wyoming, to discuss how the dehumanization process of Black people in the United States helps us understand a culture of accepting police brutalit

Episode 2: (Part Two) Struck by Lightning: How Capital Punishment Cases are Pursued and Imposed at Disproportionate Rates Against African Americans and Other Minorities

Oct 23rd, 2020 39m 4s

In Episode 3, Cody Duran talks with Tamara Brady, a Colorado Public Defense Attorney specializing in Capital Punishment cases. Cody and Tamara discuss the history of the Death Penalty in the United States, and how race, as it has with most area

Episode 2: (Part One) Struck by Lightning: How Capital Punishment Cases are Pursued and Imposed at Disproportionate Rates Against African Americans and Other Minorities

Oct 21st, 2020 45m 5s

Our Racist Criminal Justice System (Part Two)

Oct 7th, 2020 38m 51s

Lauren and Nathan discuss the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and how the Supreme Court has weakened its protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Under the current Fourth Amendment case law, police have unfettered discr

Our Racist Criminal Justice System (Part One)

Oct 1st, 2020 38m 50s

Lauren and Nathan discuss the racial disparities in the United States criminal justice system and the Supreme Court’s role in supporting and perpetuating this unequal system, which many have justifiably deemed as racist.Books Referenced:Frank R

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