difference? Yeah,

go ahead.

No, what the difference is, is when largely because of the Boston Archdiocese and Los Angeles, the bishops adopted something in 2002 called the Dallas Charter.

And a lot of us at the time really didn't think they were very sincere.

But many dioceses, not all, but many have really enforced it.

They removed the known predators in their midst.

So between 2002 and 2005, there were 6,000 priests removed from ministry in the United States.

Yes.

if you're representing this young woman and she's seeking justice?

Well, the thing about, you know, and you as a lawyer, if you've got bad facts, get them out.

You want the jury or in the case of the public to hear about them from you first.

You don't put out a story.

And I want to preface this.

In no way am I minimizing.

No, nor am I.

Yeah, and nobody is suggesting that this didn't

Oh my goodness.

And I was convinced that as a Catholic, that the diocese would do the right thing, that the bishop would do the right thing, and the, um, they didn't.

Their lawyer literally told me to go F myself, and, uh, we filed a case in '97.

That case settled for one young man, uh, named Ryan DeMaria, who's public and is now a tax lawyer, um, uh, for $5.2 million in, uh, July of 2001, which at the time was the largest settlement in the history of the church for one individual.

And my phone began to ring off the hook, and by sort of, uh, I guess accident, I became a sex abuse lawyer, and since that time, I've represented thousands of survivors, um, and done cases all over the country, um, the most notable of which is probably the Larry Nassar case, where I represented, um, our Olympic gymnast, um, Simone Biles and others, and was able to secure almost a billion dollars against Michigan State, uh, the US, uh, Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the USA Gymnastics, and sadly, the FBI for mishandling the investigation.

Um, and, uh, I think, you know, we now have 16 lawyers, probably half of whom are former sex crimes prosecutors, and all we do is prosecute pedophiles and institutions that enable them civilly.

Okay

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... that's a no-brainer

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I think most teachers do wanna report.

The problem is, is that is in many districts, not all, in many districts, if you do report, you're viewed as a traitor and you get run over.

And the other thing is, is that n- law enforcement isn't reporting, uh, isn't enforcing mandatory reporting laws.

Um, but I think in terms of the American Federation of Teachers, I believe, this is just my personal opinion, that they recognize how many victims there are, and I think they understand that if the American public grasps the magnitude of this scandal, the number of children affected, um, the, the damage done to these boys and girls in s- in our schools, the education system as we know it will cease to exist.

It reminds me a lot of the Catholic bishops' coverup in, in the late '90s when they were denying the scope of the scandal, and then it came roaring back.

I mean, it's criminal at some point.

Why don't you just lay out for, uh, our viewers what is going on with teachers in the city of Los Angeles?

Well, it, it's, uh...

We've had cases against LAUSD since two thousand twelve when the Supreme Court first allowed, um, people to file against school districts.

In most states, you can't sue a school district even if they know that a teacher has molested kids and, um, they don't take him out of circulation.

They allow, allow him access.

Fortunately, we changed the law.

But to give you a scope nationally, um, there's two national studies, one in two thousand four, uh, by Carol Sheik-Shav, who was hired by the Department of Education to examine how many children in public schools in this country in K through twelve will suffer some sort of sexual misconduct by a teacher or other school employee, and the figure she came up with was ten percent.

I mean, uh, a- anyways, John Manley, uh, you were, you were about ready to, to hold forth, so please, uh, uh, continue on with what you were saying.

Why don't you just lay out for our viewers what is going on with teachers in the city of Los Angeles?

Well, we've had cases against LAUSD since 2012. when the Supreme Court first allowed people to file against school districts.

In most states, you can't sue a school district even if they know that a teacher has molested kids and they don't take them out of circulation.

They allow them access.

Fortunately, we changed the law.

But to give you a scope nationally, There's two national studies, one in 2004 by Carol Shakeshaft, who was hired by the Department of Education to examine how many children in public schools in this country in K through 12 will suffer some sort of sexual misconduct by a teacher or other school employee.

And the figure she came up with was 10%.

they're subject to the state basically i mean anyways john manley i want to welcome you back i cut you off before the break uh you were you were about ready to to hold forth so please i i continue on with what you were saying

Why is it being reported in the news that the juror barely spoke English?

Because nobody read the opinion.

And lots of jurors, what we're doing here, what the court did here, is really invaded the problems of the jury under the guise of the advice of counsel, simply because you make a mistake as a judge.

doesn't mean that conviction gets reversed.

There's something called harmless error, and it happens all the time.

But here's the problem in California with questioning jurors about whether they can speak English because it deals with race.

Under the new jury regulations, you're going to get what's called a Batson challenge, meaning essentially you're asking this to get rid of somebody because of their race.

That's the