I will be watching Judy justice it aired in 2021 and I’ve seen several clips on social media and it’s entertaining for what I’ve seen. What i’ve read in wikipedia is that they received a “Daytime Emmy award for their Legal/Courtroom program.”

I have chosen to listen to a series of episodes that cover the Ghislaine Maxwell trial by the podcast TrueAnon. The podcast is hosted by union activist and media personality Brace Beldan and writer Liz Franczack. I intend to listen to 19 episodes which cover the 18 days of trial and jury deliberation in 2021 and the sentencing in 2022. Beldan and Franczack attended the trial here in New York City at the southern district court and recorded episodes each night of the trial. The podcast, which originally began in 2019 to cover the Jeffery Epstein trial in New York City, moved on to cover his past and related associates. They narrowed in on Ghislaine Maxwell during her months of hiding and subsequent arrest and trial. The podcast cannot be accurately described as true crime nor conspiracy (though their comedic name choice hints at both). Rather, they broadly offer left-wing analysis of American and global political issues and events.

                     My cultural source to tackle this assignment is an active/ongoing murder case for the late rapper known to many as “XXXTentacion”. To my knowledge of the case, “X” was shot and killed by a pair of gunmen just as he’d left a motorcycle dealership in Florida. With a bevy of individuals involved, a friend of one of the arraigned suspects (Deedrick Williams) aka ‘Chucky’ took the stand for questioning, and the female friend then identified another associate ‘Big Rob.’ Then, ‘Trey’ was presented and lastly was ‘Boatwright.’ The whole plan came about (of the murder) when ‘Big Rob’ and Deedrick’s friend conferred to first acquire a rental car in Nermark by way of cellphone call on June 17, 2020.The car was a Black Dodge Journey and the friend made her way to one of ‘Chucky’s associates where she would subsequently take the wheel of her own personal car and ‘Big Rob’ manned the vehicle she rented. Time went by into the next day where this witness wasn’t involved but she was thereafter when Chucky swung by her house and they’d learnt the rental had been part of a crash. I do intend on learning more about the case as it progresses.

I have chosen the movie A Time To Kill a drama/thriller movie that was released in 1996.  This movie is based on a novel by John Grishman an attorney.  It is about a little girl on her way home, who was beaten and raped by white grown men in a southern town.  Of courser we are aware of the level of racism that exists in the south.  Her father, who is crushed by this horrific incident seeks revenge and kills the men.  He is then arrested and the story now focuses on the trial of this father.

While this story is a hard to swallow and re-watch I firmly believe it highlights many areas of the law and how great a role society plays in it.

For my Law in Culture project I would like to watch the movie “Worth” (2021).  According to the trailer, it is about a lawyer whose job it is to get compensation for the families of the people who died on 9/11. It seems there was some discrepancy between how much certain people would get compensated based on their economic “worth”, which (according to the trailer) was determined by their job. I want to know how they figured it out, how they made it fair or equitable. I look forward to watching and learning about this story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worth_(film)