Episode Details

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about a senate confirmation hearing for three district court nominees that turned into an utter clown show when three US Senators started equating The Innocence Project working to free wrongfully convicted folks as being responsible for rising crime rates. Guest Zeke Webster returns to Heard Tell, and as an attorney and public defender talks about the work of the Innocence Project, the asinine correlations of freeing the innocent and being "soft on crime", how such attitudes permeate every layer of the criminal judicial system, and how concepts like freedom and justice mean nothing if the wrongfully accused and convicted lose their rights. Also, we take a question on Twitter from a member of the audience to re-examine the designations of "essential" and "non-essential" businesses during the COVID pandemic, how such designations had vast and real consequences, and how some states are pushing back legislatively to prevent such arbitrary rulings under emergency powers from picking and choosing which businesses can and cannot be open. Plus, we check in on the Ahmaud Arbery federal hate crimes trial, and work through why the racial elements of the McMichael's crime was excluded from the criminal trial, but is front and center here, and why folks need to not look away from the glaring hatred the now-convicted killers of Arbery had, and the lessons we should learn from it. There's more news about the massive amounts of fraud that have come from the $6 trillion shower of money the government rained down in the name of COVID relief, and we end the program and the week that was with a wonderful story of an LA Rams player for whom winning the Super Bowl was the second best thing that happened to him on Sunday. All that and more on this Friday Edition of Heard Tell.

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