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Thanks for sharing that with us.

So in the last two decades that you've been practicing, have you noticed that there are any particular challenges that your clients in the South OKC Metro or the greater Hispanic community are facing as it pertains to just accessing the legal system?

Now, crazily enough, I think I'm, I've finished three decades of doing this.

And so, uh, absolutely it's different.

And so I think sometimes, yes, those types of situations can be intimidating for clients, and sometimes they can be hesitant to access the courts to be able to get justice, for sure.

Kind of segwaying away from the access piece of it, the Hispanic population of the United States is about 20% of the total US population, yet only 5% of all lawyers and 7.5% of federal judges are Hispanic.

Do you think that this gap in representation affects the legal outcomes for people in the Hispanic community? And do you think that having more representation in attorneys, judges, legislators will increase the trust and willingness of the community to engage with the legal system?

Thank you so much.

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Professor Minow, it's so nice to have you.

It's a pleasure.

Uh, every religion, every philosophy has celebrated this capacity of forgiveness.

And [clears throat] it, it just has struck me as curious that here we are teaching people to be lawyers, and we don't teach about forgiveness.

There is forgiveness interpersonally that is absolutely, uh, you know, critical to getting along inside a family, inside of a school, but also, frankly, inside of a legal system.

And, uh, you know, a police officer doesn't arrest everybody, may give a warning.

A U.S. Air Force Global War and Terrorism Combat Veteran, she served for 13 years in roles related to cybersecurity, intelligence, anti-terrorism, and national security operations.

Dr. Kourskanazi is the author of the best-selling three-volume series, Forensic Neuropsychopathology, Clinical and Medical Insights into Brain Behavior, Mental Disorders, and the Legal System.

She's credited with developing and formally defining the field of forensic neuropsychopathology, an interdisciplinary discipline that integrates neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, psychology, psychiatry, and the legal system to better understand the neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of criminal behavior.

Monique, come on.

You are, I just got to say at the outset of this, researching your background for this interview, I mean, damn, impressive and inspiring.

Some of them have been discharged.

So I don't want to say punishment, but I would say the consequences of their actions either led them to be discharged from the military dishonorably or they ended up in military jail in Leavensworth, depending on what those crimes were.

And in my clinical dissertation, that's where forensic neuropsychopathology came to be because I'm looking at how these conditions and the relationship with brain behavior is being treated within the legal system, number one.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not wanting to be harsh.

I'm not wanting to be cruel, but our legal system cannot construe innocence with these cases.

Nancy Mace is quoted, if postpartum mental illness becomes a get out of jail free card for murdering our children, then by logic, anyone diagnosed with it should lose custody of these kids.

Folks, again, I'm not arguing that postpartum is fake.

The precious, innocent, Children they murdered are the victims.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a horrendous problem that our country is facing.

And if our legal system does not handle this case with Lindsey Clancy and the copycat cases correctly.

It could be the end of our judicial system and absolutely destroy it and destroy America.

On today's show, Charlie Kirk's memorial was vandalized, but he wasn't the target.

The Lindsey Clancy jury witch hunt is out of control because the left has politicized everything, including the legal system.

Welcome to the Conservative Circus.

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Here you have a Black man that was standing up for three murdered white children, to, to, to feminists being absolutely livid, livid with this Black man for, for messing things up.

How upset were they? Well, first of all, there's one thing you need to understand.

What's happening to our legal system is like happening to everything else, it's become politicized, and you now have activists.

These activists, they're sitting on juries, they're going in with an agenda.

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Joining us is Richard Friedman, a professor of law at the University of Michigan and co-author of The Jurisprudence of Sports and Games as Legal Systems.

Richard, we're so happy you could join us today.

What a great moment for you to come in on board.

Information about SAA for spouses and family of members of ex-offenders being released from prison.

Introducing SAA to Professionals in the Legal System, and this is part of the PICPC series, Public Information and Cooperation with the Professional Community.

I did have Philip on the podcast talking about PICPC stuff, and we talked about it in this conversation as well.

But there's another in that series, Introducing SAA to Law Enforcement Officers.