{"id":6552,"date":"2020-11-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2020-11-08T19:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:59:51","slug":"defending-the-wrongly-accused-a-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/defending-the-wrongly-accused-a-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFENDING THE WRONGLY ACCUSED: A CASE STUDY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A cop fires\na fatal shot to stop a gunman from killing him and his young rookie partner. A\nriot ensues.&nbsp; A scapegoat is needed. The\ncop is charged with Manslaughter and brought to trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was proud to have a part in his acquittal, as an expert witness for the defense.\u00a0 David Oscar Markus, a noted Federal defense attorney, now has a podcast called \u201cFor The Defense,\u201d and in <a href=\"https:\/\/for-the-defense.captivate.fm\/episode\/roy-black-for-luis-alvarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this segment interviews the famed Roy Black (opens in a new tab)\">this segment interviews the famed Roy Black<\/a>, who led the defense along with his very able co-counsel, Mark Seiden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link you\u2019ll find there to the chapter in Roy\u2019s book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royblack.com\/files\/Alvarez.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Black\u2019s Law (opens in a new tab)\">Black\u2019s Law<\/a>\u201d where he goes into the details of that difficult case more deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial in\nquestion took place in 1984. You\u2019ll see some striking parallels to more than\none case in today\u2019s headlines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cop fires a fatal shot to stop a gunman from killing him and his young rookie partner. A riot ensues.&nbsp; A scapegoat is needed. The cop is charged with Manslaughter and brought to trial. I was proud to have a part in his acquittal, as an expert witness for the defense.\u00a0 David Oscar Markus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}