Rebuttal (Rebmasel)

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Do political assassinations even happen in the U.S. anymore? Apparently yes. Yes, they do. Get ready to change your middle name, sue Puerto Rico for speaking Spanish, move to a hog farm in Tennessee, and learn that write-in ballots never win (except for the rare, *bloody* exception). Reb brings a murder weapon to the voting booth in Tennessee v. Byron (Low Tax) Looper (2000). TRIGGER WARNING for sexual assault/abuse. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 2:36 - Byron's early life 4:30 - West Point 8:55 - Honorable discharge to politics pipeline 12:38 - Young Democrats of Georgia/Byron has a temper?! 14:00 - Byron and the 1988 GA Democratic primary 20:41 - Byron gets #educated 21:38 - #PuertoRicoGate 32:46 - Byron meets Terri Guess in TN 39:43 - DUMP HIM 43:43 - Byron changes his middle name to (Low Tax).....and it works??? 1:03:03 - Senator Tommy Burks 1:08:17 - Byron's been busy 1:09:00 - The last day of his life 1:14:44 - Looper v. Burks 1:19:21 - The arrest 1:21:30 - The ballot's a mess 1:22:02 - Charlotte Burks 1:25:56 - What's the evidence? 1:43:53 - The aftermath 1:45:50 - CONSPIRACY AROUND LOOPER'S DEATH 1:54:03 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plug your nose and cross your heart - a rotting corpse is on the stand. 1,126 years ago, Rome was going through Popes like napkins at a BBQ cook-off. Most of them were killed, tortured, maimed, spit on...by each other. Eventually, Desperate Housewives and the Catholic Church collided to exhume a body and strap him to a chair. Why did we put a dead body on trial in 897 AD...and again in 2013? Oh, and can you marry someone after you die? As always, Reb gives you the answers, blessings, and vengeance in Cadaver Synod. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/i1jsE4PcBRk?si=ErAF4rYdDk6e9d5n *** Special, special thank you to @tanicaesar at Unhinged History for having me on her pod in September 2023 to ramble about this case with vodka and laughter. Listen to Unhinged History on Spotify, Apple, YouTube. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pararescue is the most highly decorated Air Force-enlisted force, executing the most perilous, demanding, and extreme rescue missions at anytime, anywhere around the globe. Their motto is: "These Things We Do, That Others May Live." Pararescue Staff Sergeant James D. Pou was so legendary, he became the "gold standard" for how the Air Force drills its trainees. He died a hero. So why did the June 2, 1993 L.A. Times headline read: "Bigamist, Deserter Escapes From Air Force Brig"....? Grab a parachute and jump into the interstate scandal of one legendary Airman/escape artist, two wives, two affairs, five kids, one bank robbery, and a military prison break. Reb debriefs the military's very own "justice" system and why you can't lead a triple life if you can't keep your gun dry in U.S. v. Pou (1995). *** CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE INTRO: 00:00 to 8:09 CASE BEGINS: 8:10 Alternate Title: These Things We Do, That Douglas May Live. *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Never underestimate the power of a smile and a slow walk during a good old-fashioned B&E. Learn your way around the thin, thin lines between burglary, larceny, robbery, and Goldie Locks catching a felony charge. Reb unpacks why a burglary defendant with yard work to do got his conviction overturned in State v. Bertram (2023). WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@RebuttalPod Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) On December 31, 1918, Colonel Luke Lea of the 114th Field Artillery Regiment handed his commanding officer a request for leave from his post in Allied-occupied Luxembourg. He would not say where he was going or what he intended to do, though he assured the general he had nothing to worry about. General Spaulding called it the "strangest request for leave he had ever read," but approved it anyway. After all, Luke Lea was not just an excellent officer, he was also a successful lawyer, newspaper publisher, and one-term senator from Tennessee. How much trouble could he possibly get into..... Grab a baseball and an ashtray (trust me). Reb is breaking down State v. Wallace B. Davis, Luke Lea, & Luke Lea, Jr. (1932), but more importantly, all of the unbelievable chaos that happened before it. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro w/ Executive Producer Simba 2:59 - CASE STARTS / LET’S GO BACK TO WWI 4:00 - Colonel Luke Lea needs a vacation to be a nuisance 6:00 - Tennesseans only 6:59 - We’re kidnapping whomst? 7:46 - What’s the Kaiser been up to these days? 11:40 - COLONEL LUKE LEA’S *MESSY* LORE 12:41 - Bloody Tennessee political drama 16:07 - Luke’s newspaper is now TMZ 19:12 - A good ol’ fashioned duel in the street 20:32 - Luke is messy and reaps the benefits 22:30 - REB’S SUMMARY OF ALL THAT CHAOTIC BEEF & LUKE LEA LORE 24:20 - The U.S. declares war, Luke joins the Army 24:50 - What was the plan here, babes? 27:23 - It’s Armistice Time! No need to ~arm~ the stice! 28:07 - Colonel Lea takes a vacation to….somewhere…. 29:05 - ONLY Tennesseans allowed on my poorly planned kidnapping mission 30:00 - SUDDENLY I’M PATRIOTIC / LARRY MACPHAIL BASEBALL LEGEND 34:32 - KIDNAPPING ROAD TRIP IN A CADILLAC 42:05 - The border is crossed, shenanigans ensue 56:32 - #AshtrayGate 57:45 - PUNISHMENT….? 1:06:57 - I think Luke is a weirdo / Luke dabbles in felonies back home in the States 1:11:59 - What happened to Kaiser Wilhelm II, his cool ashtray, and the MLB guy who stole it? 1:12:58 - REB’S REBUTTAL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2004, Taruk Ben-Ali left his new wife to start a new life....somewhere else. At least, that's what his dad said. Reb shows you what's behind a dad's love and a very thin wall in the case of Estate of Ben-Ali (2013). WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: ⁠ https://youtu.be/KnbEgRWcgSw Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 500 BC, corrupt judges were treated a little differently than the ones we have today. The punishments have changed, but one question remains the same: What do we do when judges can't stop taking bribes? Hold onto your birthday suit, Reb is slicing open The Judgment of Cambyses (~530 BC). (Side note: A 30-MINUTE EPISODE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!) Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - The Cursed Envelope Case 02:38 - Judge Sisamnes gets flayed 11:22 - Impartiality is important... 12:37 - ...but Supreme Court Justices play dirty (gasp) 15:58 - Justice Thomas 18:29 - Justice Gorsuch 19:35 - Recusal reform please 21:31 - Justice Alito 22:28 - Don't get it twisted 23:43 - Justice Alito 25:02 - Justice Sotomayor 26:12 - A CODE OF CONDUCT THAT WORKS WOULD BE COOL 29:53 - Reb's Rebuttal  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Beef between rappers keeps music alive and well. But what happens when a video of you lip syncing to rap lyrics at a party helps put you away for murder? Hear all about it with Reb at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Larry Jean Hart v. Texas (2024). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 4:01 - Sneak peek of Hart v. Texas (2024) 4:37 - Background - Can lyrics be used as evidence? 12:45 - Hart v. Texas begins / What happened at trial? 24:02 - Hart's first appeal 27:38 - Hart's second appeal 28:31 - Probative value of the rap videos 33:49 - Prejudicial effect of the rap videos 47:57 - Prosecution's need for the evidence 54:05 - Harm analysis 1:01:06 - Holding 1:01:59 - Reb's rebuttal 1:02:42 - Tiny teaser for Episode 26! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pro Tip: When you become a billionaire overnight, use protection (or get coup insurance). The true story of the U-Haul family feud that lasted 40 years (and counting). Listen to Reb dodge brotherly punches in Shoen v. Shoen (1993). *** WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/D7-z6CcKwnI Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lumberjack, a frying pan, a diaper, a shootout, and a fridge that severed a hand. **Select BONUS EPISODES will be available in video format to future Patreon subscribers at a later date** *** SUPPORT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM HERE: ⁠⁠https://givingcompass.org/topics/criminal-justice?subcategories=criminal-justice⁠ AND HERE: ⁠⁠https://www.sentencingproject.org⁠ SUPPORT PUBLIC DEFENSE HERE: ⁠⁠https://www.gideonspromise.org/⁠⁠ AND HERE: ⁠www.innocenceproject.org⁠⁠⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.aclu.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠⁠https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/⁠ SUPPORT KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE: ⁠⁠https://supportkind.org/⁠ ⁠ SUPPORT REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: ⁠⁠https://reproductiverights.org/⁠⁠ ⁠ *** FOLLOW REB ON: TikTok: @rebmasel⁠ Instagram: @rebmasel⁠ Twitter: @rebmasel FOLLOW REBUTTAL POD ON: Instagram: @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebuttalpod YouTube: Rebuttal Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) We protect the witnesses from the public, but who protects the public from the witnesses? Peek behind the curtain of the Witness Protection Program and prepare to be shocked, afraid, and bamboozled. Take cover with Reb and start questioning everything and everyone in United States v. Wilson (1981). **CONTENT WARNING at 58:52 for violence against children** *** SOURCES [chronological order by reference or cite]: United States v. Wilson (1981) Secord v. Schlachter (1983) https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP09S00048R000100020104-6.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59212-2004Jun21_4.html https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000605840009-1.pdf https://www.copvcia.com/free/ciadrugs/Ed_Wilson_1.html Karen S. Cooperstein, Enforcing Judgments Against Participants in the Witness Protection Program, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1017 (1984) Michal Gilad, Who Will Protect The Children?: The Untold Story of Unaccompanied Minors In Witness Protection Programs, 12 Whittier J. Child & Fam. Advoc. 43 (2012) Raneta Lawson Mack, The Federal Witness Protection Program Revisited and Compared: Reshaping An Old Weapon To Meet New Challenges in the Global Crime Fighting Effort, U. Miami Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 191 (2014). Tanya Asim Cooper, Sacrificing the Child To Convict The Defendant: The Secondary Traumatization of Child Witnesses By Prosecutors, Their Inherent Conflict of Interest, and the Need For Child Witness Counsel, 9 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y & Ethics J. 239 (2011) Laura Perry, What's In A Name?, 46 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1563 (2009) https://www.baltimoresun.com/2003/04/26/youth-is-found-fatally-shot-after-being-called-as-witness/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/10/31/witness-protection-program-who-protects-public/748986001/ Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A paid informant who should've been fired, a police officer who LOVES a good eraser, and a dad who can't stop bragging about his poor sons. Grab a bag of baking soda and a large Coke and hear Reb snitch on Albright v. Oliver (1994). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 2:26 - Legal mumbo jumbo you should know before we begin 9:00 - Reb's rant on wrongful arrests 13:31 - Why do malicious prosecution cases rarely succeed? 15:22 - Albright v. Oliver (1994) 19:59 - The worst informant draft pick of all time 21:26 - The old man from Up beats the allegations 24:58 - Every son under the bus 29:12 - Shut your mouth (pt. 45457493589295) + Albright's lawsuit 33:09 - The Court of Appeal agrees it was a huge bummer at least 39:05 - SCOTUS opinion 41:10 - Albright v. Oliver and malicious prosecution = a whole mess 43:30 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1980s were a lawless time for the funeral home community. This is the insane true story of David Sconce, the mortician who would stop at nothing to corner the market on death in the City of Angels. Listen to Reb dodge burning feet and murder conspiracies in People v. Sconce. CASE BEGINS: 10:20 *** WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/neF3ie5dtbA Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Sources: Article: "The Mortician and The Murderer," by Angella d'Avignon for Topic.com (2019) Book: "A Family Business," by Ken Englade (1992) *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A chicken farmer, World War II, and 150 suicidal chickens were the only ones up to the task to answer this question for the Supreme Court. No, I'm not joking. This is United States v. Causby (1946). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 00:40 - Case begins 3:00 - The Takings Clause 3:30 - The Causbys and their crime scene coop 7:26 - The Causbys get a (good) lawyer / Lower court case 10:00 - US Supreme Court arguments 17:41 - Supreme Court's analysis + holding 26:46 - After Causby...seriously, who owns it? / Drones are a problem y'all 37:43 - Wait, what about the Causbys? 37:52 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Since Biblical times, self defense has been simple. Guard your castle. Retreat to the wall. Defend yourself. The U.S. stole its common law from the English, and the elements of self defense didn't change. Until.......Florida. Why did Florida change its slogan from the Sunshine State to the Kill At Will State? Aren't Stand Your Ground Laws a good thing? How old is the Castle Doctrine? Whose castle is it anyway? Reb lowers the drawbridge on the madness and teaches you all the wheres and whens and hows on who is really allowed to "defend" themselves. **CONTENT WARNING** Racial violence and violence against women and children. 0:00 - Content Warning 2:24 - Intro 8:08 - Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/Tamir Rice 10:07 - Philando Castile 15:00 - People v. White (2010) 26:16 - Duty to Retreat 30:05 - The Castle Doctrine 30:45 - Beard v. United States (1895) 31:10 - People v. Tomlins (1914) 34:15 - Background on SYG Laws 36:00 - Self-defense elements/Duty to retreat 43:45 - SYG Laws and Imminence 46:27 - Removing Imminence > Race/Gender/DV 52:53 - Bernard Goetz (1986) 56:20 - Kathy & James Workman (Fla. 2004) 58:41 - The NRA & SYG 59:30 - Jimmy Morningstar (2003) 1:04:30 - Charles Harper (2009) 1:06:00 - Pedro Roteta (2011) 1:10:13 - Duty to retreat 1:11:10 - Domestic Violence & The Castle Doctrine 1:20:17 - Deven Grey (2017) / Brittany Joyce Smith (2018) 1:22:03 - Collected cases of men using SYG Laws successfully 1:23:41 - Peggy Stewart Case (1988) 1:31:18 - Kansas Supreme Court is on my sh*t list 1:32:00 - "Reasonableness" for a woman 1:33:50 - Collected cases on DV victims and Castle Doctrine/SYG 1:47:00 - Castle Doctrine clashes with Knock + Announce Rule 1:48:32 - Breonna Taylor *** DONATE https://www.trayvonmartinfoundation.org/ https://michaelodbrown.org/ https://www.tamirericefoundation.org/donate https://www.philandocastilefoundation.org/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/freedom-and-reentry-fund-for-deven-grey https://justiceforbreonna.org/ *** COMPLETE SOURCE LIST IN YOUTUBE EPISODE NOTES Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Reb hits you with rapid fire summaries of 13 lawsuits filed in 2003 that are unhinged enough to make it on Rebuttal (the legal sanctuary of chaos and calamity, of course). *** 0:00 - Intro / Life update 4:16 - The Docked Dog Tail Case 8:55 - The Condom Soup Case 10:48 - Port-A-Potty Prison 12:32 - Depose The Parrot 13:59 - Suing The Casino Instead of Your Husband 15:43 - Convicted Felon Wants His Playstation Back 17:18 - BREAKING: Lightning Loves Cars 18:16 - Kid Sues High School For $50 Million 19:49 - Lion Beats Your Crappy Bullet (Yay!) 21:05 - Dancing With The Scars 22:03 - Don't Record Your Local Grandma 23:14 - She's Just Not That Into You 24:15 - Black Pepper Throws Hands 26:52 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 23, 2000, 12-year old Ansche Hedgepeth ate a single french fry in the Tenleytown-AU Metro station in Washington, D.C. on her way home from Alice Deal Junior High. Within seconds, she was in handcuffs. Why? Because a D.C. law dared to ask a simple question: "What if we just...arrested all the kids?"....Reb unpacks Hedgepeth v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit. [TW: ARREST OF MINOR CHILDREN] FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/i4bYMAB1BAc Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) 2006 ABCNews article mentioned: ⁠https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/01/08/update-girl-whose-french-fry-arrest-led-to-metro-policy-change-sets-sights-on-college-career/c221cecd-19bb-4d59-aa2d-a26eacf61830/⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trigger Warnings: Graphic descriptions of execution by lethal injection and men who whine on the record. In that order. *** U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts, the *first* openly gay federal judge in the U.S. (!!!): https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/annual-observances/pride-month Support the Human Rights Defense Center: https://www.humanrightsdefensecenter.org/donate/ *** FOLLOW US: https://www.instagram.com/rebuttalpod/ WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@RebuttalPod **Select BONUS EPISODES will be available in video format to future Patreon subscribers at a later date** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A prison break, the oldest biker gang in the world, 558 death sentences, a body in a river, and the man who tried to dodge death just to run straight into it. Twice. The Supreme Court in 1976 had no idea it would set off a chain of events worthy of a biopic and a newfound appreciation for Harley Davidsons, bro code, and a really catchy crime syndicate slogan. Rev (Reb?) your engines. It's about to get bloody. The penalty is death in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). WATCH THIS EPISODE YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/IWohmpaeS7c?si=Ephgw-G9rmO66Bg_ Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reb picks up where we left off in Part 1. The cannibals have been saved....Or so they thought. Hear how the 1883 murder case of Regina v. Dudley & Stephens shaped the defense of "necessity" and decided, once and for all, that eating people is........? WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/NLpgPmRaZFo *** SOURCE: "Is Eating People Wrong?" by Allan C. Huchinson. *** FOLLOW REB ON: TikTok: @rebmasel Instagram: @rebmasel Twitter: @rebmasel FOLLOW REBUTTAL POD ON: Instagram: @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebuttalpod YouTube: Rebuttal Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Being a lawyer is a stressful job, and we all handle the anxiety of this high-pressure field in different ways. Some enjoy pilates, others indulge in junk food, a few find relief at the bottom of a liquor bottle. But in 2023, one lawyer's preferred method of "blowing off steam" made headlines. It read: "BREAKING: LAWYER SUSPENDED FOR POOPING IN A PRINGLES CAN AND THRO-" Listen at your own risk to find out the rest. Reb washes her hands and unpacks Ohio Bar v. Blakeslee (2023). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - Brief background on State Bars and the moral character application 6:57 - Headline / Case starts / James (Jack) Blakeslee 11:27 - His “Pringles Prank” defense 14:07 - Ethics case against Blakeslee 16:25 - Reb’s several concerns 24:20 - Ohio Supreme Court Opinion - Ohio Bar v. Blakeslee (2023) 32:40 - Discipline and 2024 Update 34:50 - Reb’s Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In the early hours of Saturday, May 15, 2010, Kalief Browder and a friend were returning home from a party in the Belmont section of the Bronx. He was 16 years old. Browder saw a police car driving toward them. More squad cars arrived, and soon Browder and his friend were squinting in the glare of a police spotlight. An officer said they had robbed a man. “I didn’t rob anybody,” Browder replied. “You can check my pockets.” . . . Reb shares the cases of Kalief Browder and Inmate H, and thousands of other children and adults held in pretrial detention in the United States without ever being convicted of a crime. Some people say cash bail “creates Hell on Earth.” You might just believe them. **CONTENT WARNING** Violence against children Links: https://www.facebook.com/KaliefsLegacy?mibextid=LQQJ4d https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-case-for-cash-bail-reform/ --- 2:21 - Kalief Browder 14:45 - Rikers Island 17:33 - Pretrial Detention, Cash Bail, and Depravity 22:38 - Inmate H 31:29 - Rikers Island Origins / #CloseRikers 37:18 - Cash Bail Reform 45:45 - A Murderer, A R*pist, and A Traffic Violator 47:38 - Cash Bail Reform 57:40 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) There are 3 reasons one of the most important 4th Amendment rules in America exists as it does today: (1) Boxers in the criminal underworld, (2) A bomb in the house of famous boxing promoter Don King, and (3) Dollree "Dolly" Mapp - The young black woman who dated bad boys and stood up to an all-white police force in Baltimore...and won. What started as a mobster/boxer gambling ring turned into a 4-year battle over...you guessed it...nude magazines. Come with Reb to throw some punches and start a Dolly fan club in Mapp v. Ohio (1961). INTRO/CONTEXT: 0:00-7:29 CASE BEGINS: 7:30 *** Sources Cited: Ken Armstrong, “Dollree Mapp, 1923-2014: “The Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment,” The Marshall Project (Dec. 8, 2014) https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/08/dollree-mapp-1923-2014-the-rosa-parks-of-the-fourth-amendment Carolyn N. Long, “Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures” (2006) ClevelandMemory.Org, “Mapp v. Ohio - 367 U.S. 643 (1961), https://www.clevelandmemory.org/legallandmarks/mapp/decision.html Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Breathing through chemical smoke has been described as “drowning on dry land.” When one imagines chemical warfare, they often imagine a striking image of filthy soldiers choking in trenches on the frontlines through thick fogs of yellow-green gas.  In 1993, the Convention on Chemical Weapons sought to end chemical warfare as we know it. 20 years later, the international treaty the U.S. signed in 1997 to ban and stop the creation, sale, and export of chemical weapons for warfare around the globe led us to an unusual suspect in an unusual place—Carol Anne Bond, a 34-year old microbiologist living with her husband in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Carol Anne Bond was not a soldier.  She was not welding steel cylinders of chlorine gas to be released over trenches in Belgium. She was not spraying 19.3 million gallons of chemical herbicides over Vietnam. She was not using white phosphorus against civilians in Fallujah or Syria. She was not a guerrilla fighter on the front lines, a terrorist, or a military contractor.  She was an angry wife. Hold your breath and wash your hands. This is Bond v. United States (2014). *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, there are over five million Native Americans in the United States, 22% of whom live on reservations. Native American women are murdered at a rate 10x the national average, and are 2.5x more likely to be victims of sexual assault. A majority of these violent crimes are perpetrated by non-tribal members on Tribal Lands, and over half of them are never investigated or prosecuted. Why? Reb has a few ideas. Listen to her untangle every "what the f*#k?!" in United States v. Cooley (2021). WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/e4vYfHznAwM Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) At 10:27PM on December 3, 2024, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol went live on television while his country was sleeping to declare martial law. His country fought back. After all was said and done, Yoon's martial law proclamation lasted only 6 and a half hours. Hawaii's lasted three years. Internment camps, forced labor, military tribunals, and a pause on all constitutional and due process liberties. Curfews, blackouts, barbed wire covering the beaches. Death penalties and forced blood donations. Thousands of Japanese residents were rounded up and put behind barbed wire, while every Hawaiian was forced to live under total, merciless military control. "It's too expensive to ship them somewhere," U.S. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox remarked. "Just make the islands an internment camp." This is Duncan v. Kahanamoku (1946). *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 3:46 - Martial law drama (South Korea edition) 7:20 - WHAT GRINDS REB'S GEARS 19:24 - Martial law drama (South Korea edition) cont. 28:47 - Democracies are fragile! <3 34:24 - MARTIAL LAW IN THE USA 35:44 - Harry White's arrest 37:09 - No one knows WTF "martial law" means 39:34 - 1941 HAWAII UNDER MARTIAL LAW 44:53 - Why was martial law so bad? 50:00 - Japanese internment tales 56:44 - NO RIGHTS, NO JUSTICE 57:13 - Insane punishments 58:33 - Saffrey Brown Murder 1:02:08 - SUPREME COURT CLOCKS IN (kinda) 1:09:55 - Reb's Rebuttal 1:13:15 - BONUS! HOW THE U.S. STOLE HAWAII Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1883, one rich lawyer's dream of being in a yacht club ends with the answer to a very important legal question: "Is eating people wrong?" Reb takes us back to a controversial case on the sea that changed criminal law forever. REB'S LIFE UPDATE: 0:00 to 9:20 CASE STARTS: 9:20- WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/N2TLONFBQBs Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** SOURCE: "Is Eating People Wrong?" by Allan C. Hutchinson. *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Humans have been digging moats, slingshotting arrows, poisoning food, and laying spikes for thousands of years — and modern day booby traps are still alive and well. But what do an Indiana Jones-inspired hot tub contraption and a haunted house’s 20-gauge shotgun have in common? Vengeance. This episode starts the engine for Episode 24’s deep dive into self-defense, "Stand Your Ground" laws, defense of property, and the Castle Doctrine. But first, listen to Reb pick tibia bones and shotgun pellets off the floor in Katko v. Briney (1971). *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is a “sterile area” of an airport? What happens if a man enters one, poses as a foreign ambassador, and then flies with a mystery pouch from Chicago to LA? Does that man at least have a G&T on the plane before the FBI starts scrambling? Reb breaks it all down in United States v. Flint. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/4wBpED4AXv8 Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fugitive wanted for murder stares at two newlyweds through a window on their back porch in Dover, Kansas on a Saturday morning in 2009. He makes them an offer: $10,000 to hide him, please. Cheetos, Dr. Pepper, and a Robin Williams movie seal the deal. Or did it? In State v. Dimmick, Reb begs you to either get it in writing or lock your door. CASE STARTS: 4:50 WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/NcziP4Q0Prk Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Most people would like to keep their heads. Thomas Donaldson isn't one of them. This mathematician and computer scientist wanted his cut off, and he wanted it to be done while he was still alive. Bring a warm jacket and follow Reb into the frozen head refrigerator for Donaldson v. Lungren (1992). INTRO/REB CHAT: 0:00-19:32 CASE STARTS: 19:32 *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Guantánamo Bay detention center is a 45-mile stretch of land the U.S. has leased from Cuba since the Spanish-American War. After 9/11, President Bush needed a place where Due Process, the courts, and lawyers couldn't reach 780 men and boys, many of whom were sold to the U.S. military for a $5,000 bounty. Who and what have we kept at Guantánamo Bay for the last 22 years? Terrorists? No. A legal blackhole? Yes. *** WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@RebuttalPod Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) SOURCE CITED: The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. Explore the complete archive of narratives at http://dlib.nyu.edu/guantanamo "The Guantánamo Docket": https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html *** SUPPORT PUBLIC DEFENSE HERE: ⁠https://www.gideonspromise.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠www.innocenceproject.org⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.aclu.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/⁠ SUPPORT KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE: ⁠https://supportkind.org/⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Illinois attorneys John Steele and Paul Hansmeier had an X-rated dream: to represent the “little guys”. The wrongfully accused? The juvenile delinquents? The small businesses? Porn production companies, of course. What started out as a seemingly legitimate copyright business model snowballed into what Federal Judge Otis D. Wright II called “a porno trolling collective”. Yes, there are court transcripts.   Wolf of Wall Street meets Suits meets adult film stars meets iconic court transcripts. Hear Reb unzip the epic saga of Prenda Law and Ingenuity 13 LLC v. John Doe (2012).  INTRO: 00:00 CASE STARTS: 11:10 *** WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/k4WWI3XE99U Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Sources/Articles/Transcripts/Court Orders Defense attorneys: Prenda litigation is 'unbelievable', 'just epic' - Washington Examiner (Dec. 23, 2012) (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/defense-attorneys-prenda-litigation-is-unbelievable-just-epic) What Prenda Law is facing in Los Angeles - Ken White, Pope Hat (Mar. 6, 2013) (https://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing-in-los-angeles/) Copyright Troll Case Tossed For 'Fraud On The Court' After Abbott & Costello-Worthy Hearing - Mike Masnick, TechDirt (Dec. 3, 2012) (https://www.techdirt.com/2012/12/03/copyright-troll-case-tossed-fraud-court-after-abbott-costello-worthy-hearing/) John Steele's Property Caretaker Intervenes in Copyright Trolling Case, Alleging Identity Theft - Mike Masnick, TechDirt (Dec. 7, 2012) (https://www.techdirt.com/2012/12/07/john-steeles-property-caretaker-intervenes-copyright-trolling-case-alleging-identity-theft/) Prenda Law's Attorneys Take The Fifth Rather Than Answer Judge Wright's Questions - Ken White, Pope Hat (April 2, 2013) (https://www.popehat.com/2013/04/02/prenda-laws-attorneys-take-the-fifth-rather-than-answer-judge-wrights-questions/) Deep Dive: Prenda Law Is Dead - Ken White, Pope Hat (April 2, 2013) (https://www.techdirt.com/2013/04/02/deep-dive-prenda-law-is-dead/) Judge Orders Prenda Law Group Beamed Out Into Space - Lowering The Bar (May 7, 2013) (https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/05/judge-orders-prenda-law-group-beamed-out-into-space.html) Judge Wright's Sanctions Order (May 6, 2013), https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PendaSanctionsOrder.pdf 'Look, you may hate me': 90 minutes with John Steele, porn troll - Joe Mullin, ArsTechnica (May 10, 2013) (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/look-you-may-hate-me-90-minutes-with-john-steele-prenda-porn-troll/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) What do you call a 6-week period in which you and a handful of very recent acquaintances get drunk every day at lunch, sleep through the afternoons, sell weed to each other, smoke weed with each other, and whip out a few bags of cocaine to snort when the time feels right? For a group of twelve people in Florida in 1987, they would call it jury duty. That’s right. Since 1987, jury misconduct stories only got crazier and crazier...including one where a jury convicted a man of double homicide by breaking out a Ouija board and asking the victims' ghosts. Yep. Reb tops off a martini and hosts a seance in Tanner v. United States (1987). *** 0:00 - Intro 2:17 - Facts of Tanner v. United States 12:39 - Trial (Coke, Booze, and Court) 23:00 - Rule 606(b) and SCOTUS Majority Opinion 40:53 - SCOTUS Dissenting Opinion 54:11 - Juror misconduct still haunts us 56:19 - SCOTUS heard our complaints and ignored them<3 58:59 - Remedies for juror misconduct 1:01:10 - Case after case after case (Delusional, sleeping, drunk, racist jurors) 1:10:00 - The Ouija Board Jury 1:19:35 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 1969, the police have been legally allowed to lie to you. Yes, you. About anything. Anywhere and everywhere. And they do. All the time. One of their favorite tricks is to use the “false evidence ploy” to convince you to take a lesser guilty plea instead of risking a trial. Despite millions of guilty pleas entered in this country based on deception and misinformation, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that it is okay for cops to be dirty liars. Reb teaches you when and how to shut your mouth as she runs through Frazier v. Cupp, Miranda v. Arizona, the "Interrogation Bible" used to train cops in the US, and the rights everyone should know how to exercise. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/0g20SUTnSRQ Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** SOURCES CITED: "FROM FALSE EVIDENCE PLOY TO FALSE GUILTY PLEA: AN UNJUSTIFIED PATH TO SECURING CONVICTIONS" by Katie Wynbrandt, Yale Law Journal (2016) "PUBLIC TRUST AND POLICE DECEPTION" by Julia Simon-Kerr, Northeastern University Law Review (2019) Time Magazine Article: "Law Enforcement Experts on Why Police Shouldn't be Allowed to Lie to Suspects," by Saul Kassin (Dec. 16, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In America, unaccompanied children are forced to represent themselves in immigration court. That's right. Children as young as infants to teenagers. Each year, thousands of immigrant children are placed into court proceedings in which government prosecutors seek to deport them unless those children can prove they have a right to stay in the United States. While the U.S. government may provide pillows and booster seats for children who are too small for the chairs in immigration court, the government does NOT have to give them an attorney to protect their rights. In this episode, Reb tells these children's stories and interviews attorneys Amanda Doroshow and Lauren Esterle with the Acacia Center for Justice who have firsthand experience advocating for these children both inside the courtroom and beyond. LINKS TO RESOURCES AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: https://acaciajustice.org/ https://acaciajustice.org/careers/students/ https://justicecorps.org/justice-fellowship/ Thank you to the Acacia Center for Justice, Amanda Doroshow, and Lauren Esterle for making this episode a reality. Your presence, advocacy, and brilliance is second to none. 0:00 - Intro 1:50 - Guillermo's Story 5:23 - The Law - Unaccompanied children in U.S. immigration court 7:51 - What rights do unaccompanied children have? 9:25 - Why lawyers are CRUCIAL 14:00 - Legally, what is an "unaccompanied child"? 16:25 - Recent cases on this issue - What do the courts say? 21:48 - Treatment of children in Juvenile Court v. Immigration Court 27:05 - Current policies are disconnected from common sense 29:05 - Reb speaks with attorney Amanda Doroshow from the Acacia Center for Justice 51:20 - Reb speaks with attorney Lauren Esterle with the Acacia Center for Justice 1:18:15 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Out of nowhere, your front door explodes. You see a man with a gun run through your door and up the stairs, firing shots at the police chasing after him. Luckily, you run for cover before a SWAT team begins their "protocol" to flush him out - explosives, toxic gasses, grenades, BearCat armored tanks, robots, and chemical weapons hit every inch of your home. Eventually, the situation is secure. The neighborhood is safe. Police followed "all necessary protocol." Your house? Destroyed. Your personal belongings? Melted by explosives. Your cat? Blind and deaf from the events. And you? Hopefully financially stable. Because neither insurance nor the courts will help you. In fact, a judge says that the City police department doesn’t owe you a dime. This is Baker v. City of McKinney (2020) (cert. denied 2024). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! * * * 0:00 - Intro 3:01 - Baker v. City of McKinney (2020) 7:20 - A 15 year-old hostage in tow 10:06 - Tomfoolery begins / SWAT blow a house to smithereens 21:06 - Not the first nor the last! 30:12 - Lech v. City of Greenwood Village (2015) / Two Belts, One Shirt 38:56 - Cops lie in police reports (pt. 47982347372492) 41:10 - SWAT team turns Lech's house into chemical weapons target practice and I'm not even joking 42:53 - The goddamn robots 53:49 - Victims galore 56:28 - Varlitskiy v. County of Riverside, CA, et al. (2024) 1:02:06 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deadly weapons are between our legs, trains, and automobiles. Yep, you read that right. Reb gives us a front row seat to three freak "accidents" that will convince you the universe hates some people a little more than most. Buckle up. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/pqNYYww8nQw *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our powers in the sky (the NTSB and the FAA) apparently think liars are more dangerous than absolutely terrible pilots. Crack open a bottle of wine and listen to a pilot horror story. Fly at your own risk. Hopefully the moose waves back at us before we hit a mountain. Reb flies you through clear, Alaskan, pathological skies in U.S. v. Kirst (2022). WATCH ON YOUTUBE: ⁠https://youtu.be/6c4HX85g1wk Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Alaska Pilot Sentenced in Connection with August 2014 Atigun Pass Crash: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/alaska-pilot-sentenced-connection-august-2014-atigun-pass-crash *** FOLLOW REB ON: TikTok: @rebmasel Instagram: @rebmasel Twitter: @rebmasel FOLLOW REBUTTAL POD ON: Instagram: @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebuttalpod YouTube: Rebuttal Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices