BARD - CORNELL SEVEN: Can They Get a Fair Case With Letitia James as Special Prosecutor?

Because look, there's.

There's a lot to be said.

I mean, you know, we don't have to get too much into the backstory here because a lot more has developed, but we can.

But one thing, Mark, I want to point out that is concerning just with due process and the law.

And look, I agree that I do think that a new team needed to take over over the the Tompkins County D.A.

But I don't know if Tish James was the right person after she posted that, quote, we stand with the victim.

I think that's very biased.

And again, wherever you land on how you feel about this case, hopefully we can all agree that's not that doesn't seem fair right off the bat.

Well, anybody who's listened to this or talked to me about criminal law knows my feelings about special counsels or independent counsels.

I think that is a perversion of the criminal justice system for a variety of reasons.

if you don't have a mechanism by which you get to recuse a district attorney.

But that is usually the most of the mechanisms for recusing a district attorney are basically before the prosecution Not a situation like this.

You know, I'm old enough to remember my favorite line.

I'm old enough to remember Jesse Smollett, which our office handled.

And we handled the case.

It was dismissed by the then prosecutor because of the public opinion.

outcry and uproar, a special counsel was appointed and that special counsel got a conviction.

And I said at the time, and we argued it at the Supreme Court, that was once in jeopardy.

And guess what? Unanimous, I believe, Illinois Supreme Court agreed and was dismissed.

It's never, it doesn't ever turn out well.

I started my career with Whitewater and an independent counsel there going after Susan McDougal in the 90s, probably before Warren was even born.

I

was born in the 80s.

Thank you very much.

But