Not So Grand Jury

Derrick and Geoff chat a bit more about two years of podcasting.

Next week's episode will be 21 Jump Street, the 2012 film, not the TV series from the '80s.

Also next week: GO VOTE!

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2 years! Yes, the Not So Grand Jury's first full episode dropped on October 17, 2024, over two years ago. Thank you to the many of you who started listening back in October 2024 and continue to listen... and thank you to those who just picked it up! Many more episodes to come. And as always, please reach out to us to suggest new episodes, provide your own commentary, etc.

In the meantime, enjoy our episode discussing To Kill a Mockingbird.

Thank you to our editors Colleen and Anthony (yes, we got the band back together again!).

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We cut about five minutes of Mike and Geoff just chatting about politics from last week's episode so we thought we'd include in this week's sidebar.

And, don't forget, to mark the Not So Grand Jury's two-year anniversary next week, we're going to discuss a classic: To Kill a Mockingbird

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Sorry for the late episode, dear listeners. We had a tight turnaround on this one and Editor Geoff managed to come down with the flu half way through the edit!

This episode, Mike and Geoff dig deep into the just-released (but long-awaited) Coyote vs. ACME. We talk about how products liability cases actually work, whatever the hell that congressional "hearing" was, the behind-the-scenes legal issues that plagued the film, and a few other points.

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We cut about ten minutes of Derrick and Geoff just chatting about general lawyering from last weeks Rebel Ridge episode so we thought we'd include in this week's sidebar.

Next week, Mike and Geoff will do a deep dive into the new movie, Coyote v. ACME, which just became available to stream on Amazon.

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Sorry for the late drop on this episode! Gotta love those technical difficulties.

This week, Derrick and Geoff discuss the Netflix film Rebel Ridge, staring Aaron Pierre of HBO's Lanterns. The guys discuss civil forfeiture and whether this crime thriller gets the ins and outs of criminal procedure somewhere close to correct.

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Listener feedback time. Thank you to M.S. (from Spotify) as well as Kevin, Paul, and Wes for providing some feedback for us to dive into.

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Mike and Geoff sit down to discuss The Pelican Brief, a legal thriller starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Wasahington, based on the book by John Grisham. The guys talk about the Supreme Court, their law school days, FOIAs, and what the word "brief" means, since John Grisham seems unaware.

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Derrick and Geoff sit down to discuss the Matt Damon-led, poker-heavy legal drama, Rounders. Not gonna lie: This is about half poker and half law talk. You have been warned.

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Geoff brings you a very brief sidebar to preview next week's episode: Rounders, the 1998 crime-and-poker drama starring... damn near everyone. We highly encourage you to give it a watch while it's still free on YouTube and before next Thursday's episode drops. And maybe play a couple hands of Texas Hold 'Em, too, just to get in the mood.

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Geoff is joined by a special guest, Megan Matthews, President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and a partner at Ogborn Mihm who specializes in medical malpractice law. Megan and Geoff talk about doctors behaving badly as they discuss the 2012 Orlando Bloom movie The Good Doctor.

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The whole crew is here this week, plus a special guest, Rose, the Director of Strategic Operations at a large law firm. She joins us to talk about just how badly the main characters in All's Fair run their law firm.

During the discussion we reference a reddit post cataloging Kim Kardashian's idea of professional workplace attire. The photos we're referring to can be found here (mostly the first one): https://www.reddit.com/r/KUWTK/comments/1oooq26/kims_new_post_alls_fair_fashion_gonna_post_a_full/

Thank you to our editor Colleen!

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Derrick and Geoff bring a quick sidebar to everyone, discussing listener feedback and introducing next week's episode: Season 1 Episode 1 of All's Fair, the 2025 American legal drama series starring Kim Kardashian, among many others. Highly encourage you to do a hate-watch before next Thursday's episode drops.

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Just Geoff and Derrick in this episode, and we go back to basics with this absolutely insane Always Sunny episode. Among other things we talk about comparative negligence, "eggshell" plaintiffs, burden of proof, admissibility of evidence, expert witnesses, and judicial/legal ethics.

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Thank you to our editors Colleen and Anthony!

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Join Mike and Geoff for a quick follow-up on our discussion about warrantless searches from last week's Zootopia episode. Plus the guys talk about a few tropes that have cropped up in the shows and movies they've been watching.

Comments welcome and encouraged. Are there any tropes you've noticed happen particularly frequently? Let us know!

Also, next week we will have a special guest with us to discuss the first episode of the Kim Kardashian vehicle(?), All's Fair. Having watched it, I have a feeling this is well we'll be coming back to again and again.

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Apologies for the one-day delay in getting this episode out. It is probably Derrick's fault due to being distracted watching all the World Cup games... (By the way, Balogun's red card was BS!)

Anyway, Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Zootopia (2016), the animated buddy cop comedy film. Among other things, the guys discussed the treatment of Officer Hopps as a police officer, police unions, warrants, and the many crimes committed by various characters.

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Thank you to editor Colleen!

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Because our episode on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Measure of a Man (Season 2, Episode 8) was already pretty long, a conversation regarding a 3-minute poker game hit the cutting room floor. It's now back as a sidebar! So, enjoy a quick intro from Geoff, Mike, and Derrick, and then a long conversation with Geoff, Derrick, and Wes Rist, our guest host for the TNG episode.

Comments welcome and encouraged.

Also, next week's episode will involve a discussion of the animated movie Zootopia (2016), where we will discuss, among other things, treatment of police officers, the power of police unions, warrants, and involuntary confinement.

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Second part of a 2-part episode is here (and apologies for the one-week delay in the release). Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Season 2 of Marvel's Daredevil, focusing on the Punisher Trial.

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Thank you to editor Colleen!

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Hey there, listeners. Our plan was to have Part 2 of our Daredevil: Season 2 discussion up this week but travel and work got in the way of finishing the edit. So you’ll have to wait for next week to hear us talk about the actual Punisher trial.

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For this sidebar, we bring in a new segment, informally called "Mike and Geoff Yell into the Void." First, from a conversation from two weeks ago, Mike brings up his concerns regarding the (absolutely ridiculous and corrupt) $1.766 billion settlement between Donald Trump, et al. and his own IRS. Second, we go forward in time where we discussed only a few days ago all the updates to this proposed settlement. And finally, we got back in time again to Geoff discussing a situation involving the Guitar maker Fender's decision to issue cease and desists to builders of a type of generic guitar.

We originally thought this would be a semi-quick sidebar. It actually ended up being quite a long one, but hopefully an enjoyable one.

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