CAFE Insider 08/19: Prosecutor v. Prosecutor

In this episode of the CAFE Insider podcast, "Prosecutor v. Prosecutor," Preet and Anne discuss:

-- The New York City medical examiner’s announcement on Friday that Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a suicide by hanging;

-- U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s statement blaming the shooting of police officers in Philadelphia on District Attorney Larry Krasner and accusing him of fostering a “culture of disrespect” toward law enforcement;

-- Kansas federal prosecutors held in contempt of court in connection to an investigation into their improper access to confidential phone conversations between criminal defendants and their attorneys;

-- President Trump’s interest in buying Greenland, a proposition he compared to a “large real estate deal.” 

REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

• “Blinded by the Light,” IMBD, 2019

JEFFREY EPSTEIN

• Letters exchanged between Metropolitan Correctional Center Warden Lamine N’Diaye and SDNY Judge Richard Berman, 8/10/19-8/12/19 
• “Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Results Show He Hanged Himself in Suicide,” New York Times, 8/16/19
• “Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate cleared of wrongdoing in incident that preceded his death,” NBC News, 8/16/19
• “The Gall of Ghislaine Maxwell,” New Yorker, 8/16/19
• “Jeffrey Epstein’s gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell spotted at In-N-Out Burger in first photos since his death,” New York Post, 8/15/19

PHILADELPHIA SHOOTING

• “Statement by United States Attorney William M. McSwain on the Shooting of Six Philadelphia Police Officers,” US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 8/15/19
• “Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police’s 64th National Biennial Conference,” Department of Justice, 8/12/19
• “The Case for More Incarceration,” William Barr, October 28, 1992, NCJRS.gov
• Clip of U.S. Attorney William McSwain discussing District Attorney Larry Krasner on Fox News, 6/10/19
• “The Trump Justice Department’s war on progressive prosecutors, explained,” Vox, 8/16/19
• “Philadelphia Federal Prosecutor Blames Police Shooting on ‘Culture of Disrespect,’” Wall Street Journal, 8/15/19
• “Suspect surrenders after 6 officers are wounded in Philadelphia standoff,” NBC News, 8/14/19 
• “Larry Krasner’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration,” New Yorker, 10/22/18
• 1999 Consent Decree in United States v. State of New Jersey
• “Oversight of New Jersey State Police Is Ended,” New York Times, 9/21/09
• “U.S. Will Monitor New Jersey Police on Race Profiling,” New York Times, 12/23/99

KANSAS U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

• U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson’s ruling in the case of United States v. Carter, 8/13/19 
• The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Legal Information Institute
• 18 U.S. Code § 3500: Demands for production of statements and reports of witnesses, Legal Information Institute
• “Attorney-Client Privilege,” Legal Information Institute
• “Federal judge holds U.S. attorney’s office in contempt in probe of recorded attorney-client calls,” American Bar Association, 8/15/19
• “Warrants and Privilege: Legal Questions About the Raids on Trump’s Lawyer,” New York Times, 4/10/18

GREENLAND

• “Trump reportedly wants to buy Greenland. So did the Truman administration.,” Washington Post, 8/16/19
• “‘Greenland Is Not for Sale’: Trump’s Talk of a Purchase Draws Derision,” New York Times, 8/16/19
• “Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.,” New Yorker, 8/16/19
• “This interactive map shows how ‘wrong’ other maps are,” Washington Post, 8/18/15
• Clip from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride (“unemployed in Greenland!”)

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