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I Was a Prosecutor at the Suffolk County DA's Office — Here's the Truth About the Justice System | Chase Brown
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Chase Brown followed his father's footsteps into law went to law school and became a prosecutor at the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. For three years he prosecuted cases dealt with victims and defendants navigated bail issues and a backlogged court system picked juries and offered plea deals that shaped people's lives. Then he left to become a private criminal defense attorney at his father's firm — putting him on the opposite side of everything he had spent three years doing. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, Chase shares the complete truth about what the justice system really looks like from the inside — the cases he will never forget the problems with bail the issues with the jury system the backlog destroying the courts and what working as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney actually revealed about the system he operates in every single day.
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_____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/
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Timestamps:
00:00 Chase Brown's Legal Journey
03:00 Early Life, Family, and Career Choices
09:00 Law School Experiences and AI's Impact
17:00 Becoming a Prosecutor: Trials and Skills
26:00 Handling Overwhelming Caseloads
33:00 Courtroom Realities: Early Cases and Lessons
39:00 Body Cameras and Police Accountability
46:00 Plea Deals and Prosecutorial Ethics
52:00 Inside the Prosecutor's Ro