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- Yesterday20 min
FIGHTING BACK - THE PENCIL LETTER THAT CHANGED AMERICA: GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT
A drifter. A pool hall. A prison cell. And the most consequential letter ever written in pencil on prison stationery.Garret Fisher closes the Fighting Back series with the one story in ten that ends with complete, unambiguous victory — and the one that keeps the whole series honest. Clarence Earl Gideon was a 51-year-old Florida drifter with an eighth-grade education and a long record of minor nonviolent offenses when he was charged with breaking into a pool hall in Panama City in 1961. He couldn't afford a lawyer. The state wouldn't give him one. He represented himself, did his best, and lost. He was sentenced to five years in prison. From his cell, using the prison library and writing in pencil on prison stationery, he handwrote a petition to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court took his case. Appointed one of the best lawyers in Washington to argue for him. And on March 18, 1963, ruled 9-0 that every person accused of a felony in America — no matter how poor, no matter what state, no matter what the charge — has the constitutional right to a lawyer. About 2,000 people were freed in Florida alone. Gideon himself was retried, acquitted in under an hour, and walked out a free man. He died in 1972. He is the reason the system works sometimes. This is his story.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
- 4 days ago18 min
FIGHTING BACK - SHE HAD THE DOCUMENTS: THE KAREN SILKWOOD STORY
Oklahoma, 1974. A plutonium plant. A whistleblower. A meeting she never made. And documents no one has ever found.Garret Fisher covers the Karen Silkwood case — one of the most haunting whistleblower stories in American history, and the one that refuses to resolve into a clean ending. Silkwood was a lab technician at a Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, who became convinced the company was falsifying safety records and endangering its workers. She was elected to the union bargaining committee, testified before the Atomic Energy Commission, and gathered documentation she believed proved the violations. On November 13, 1974, she was driving to meet a New York Times reporter with those documents when her car went off the road. She was 28 years old. The documents were never found. Her family spent a decade in court. The Supreme Court ruled in their favor in 1984 — establishing that nuclear corporations could be held liable under state tort law. The company settled for $1.38 million without admitting wrongdoing. The plant closed the year after her death. None of the central questions about how she was contaminated, or what happened on that road, have ever been definitively answered.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
- 5 days ago17 min
FIGHTING BACK - THE FAMILIES WHO REFUSED TO SIT DOWN: THE SACKLERS AND PURDUE PHARMA — PART 2
2,600 lawsuits. $11 billion moved into private trusts. A bankruptcy designed as a shield. And a Supreme Court that said no.Garret Fisher concludes the Purdue Pharma story — covering the wave of lawsuits that broke against the company, the bankruptcy filing the Sacklers used to try to insulate their personal fortune from accountability, and the families of overdose victims who showed up to depositions of Sackler family members holding photographs of their dead children and refused to be treated as a line item. Then the Supreme Court's landmark June 2024 ruling that struck down the deal shielding the Sacklers from personal liability — and the $7.4 billion settlement that followed, approved in November 2025, which permanently bans the family from the opioid business, dissolves Purdue Pharma entirely, and will release 30 million internal documents to the public. What accountability looks like when you have $11 billion and the best lawyers money can buy. And what it looks like when you don't, but you show up anyway with a photograph.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
- 6 days ago18 min
FIGHTING BACK - A PILL, A LIE, AND HALF A MILLION DEAD: THE SACKLERS AND PURDUE PHARMA — PART 1
They called it a miracle of pain management. Their own salespeople called it a drug. Their own documents called it a franchise.Garret Fisher opens the two-part Purdue Pharma story — the most destructive corporate drug case in American history. In 1996 the Sackler family's privately owned pharmaceutical company launched OxyContin with a marketing campaign built on a lie: that this powerful opioid was less addictive than existing painkillers because of its slow-release formula. Internal documents show the company knew the 12-hour dosing claim was false. They knew. They told their salespeople to say it anyway. They paid doctors to prescribe it, sent them on all-expenses-paid "educational" vacations, and targeted the highest prescribers with uncapped commission incentives. Prescriptions for OxyContin went from 670,000 in 1997 to 6.2 million in 2002. And as the overdose deaths mounted, the Sackler family began moving money out of the company — ultimately transferring approximately $11 billion into private trusts. This is Part 1.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
- 1 weeks ago16 min
FIGHTING BACK - $333 MILLION AND A GHOST TOWN: ERIN BROCKOVICH VS. PG&E — PART 2
The largest direct-action settlement in American history. And the town that won it is still dying.Garret Fisher concludes the Erin Brockovich story — covering the legal strategy that turned 634 plaintiffs into the most powerful class-action force PG&E had ever faced, the $333 million settlement that made history, and the $2.5 million bonus check that changed Erin's life overnight. Then the part the movie doesn't show: the chromium plume that kept growing after the settlement. The school that closed. The houses that were bought and bulldozed. The fire captain whose parents died from the water she grew up drinking, who reluctantly packed her family and left anyway. And Erin Brockovich's own assessment of what Hinkley looks like three decades later: "Everything's boarded. It's a ghost town. That's a good way to end a community in America — poison it and its people."Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
- 1 weeks ago16 min
FIGHTING BACK - THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T QUIT: ERIN BROCKOVICH VS. PG&E — PART 1
No law degree. No formal training. Three kids, a borrowed car, and a town full of people dying of cancers nobody could explain.Garret Fisher kicks off week two of Fighting Back with one of the most iconic David vs. Goliath stories in American legal history — and one of the best arguments for why the civil justice system exists in the first place. Erin Brockovich was a twice-divorced single mother of three with $74 in her bank account when she stumbled onto a file that would change her life and save hundreds of others. PG&E had been dumping hexavalent chromium — a known carcinogen — into the groundwater of a tiny California desert town called Hinkley for decades. The residents were riddled with cancer, miscarriages, and mysterious illnesses. PG&E told them the water was fine. Erin Brockovich found out otherwise. This is Part 1.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
- 1 weeks ago18 min
FIGHTING BACK - YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO: STELLA LIEBECK AND THE McDONALD'S HOT COFFEE CASE
A 79-year-old grandmother. Third-degree burns across 16 percent of her body. Eight days in the hospital. And a corporation that spent millions making her the punchline.Garret Fisher takes on one of the most successfully distorted stories in American legal history: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants. Almost everything the public thinks it knows about this case is wrong — and that's not an accident. McDonald's coffee in 1992 was served 30 to 40 degrees hotter than any competitor, hot enough to cause third-degree burns in under three seconds. The company had received more than 700 burn complaints. Stella Liebeck asked for $20,000 to cover her medical bills. McDonald's offered $800. What happened next — in the courtroom and in the press — is a masterclass in how corporations use public relations to rewrite the story of their own negligence.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
- 1 weeks ago18 min
FIGHTING BACK - THEY WERE TOLD TO LICK THE BRUSH: THE RADIUM GIRLS
The company knew. The scientists knew. The executives took precautions to protect themselves. And then they told two hundred young women the paint was perfectly safe.Garret Fisher covers one of the most infuriating corporate cover-up stories in American history: the Radium Girls of Orange, New Jersey. Beginning in 1917, young women at the United States Radium Corporation were instructed to point their paintbrushes with their lips before dipping them in radium-laced paint — lip, dip, paint, hundreds of times a day. The company's own scientists wore lead shields and used tongs when handling the material. They told the workers it was harmless. By the mid-1920s, women were dying as their jaws literally fell apart. The company buried a Harvard study, falsified records, bribed doctors to list deaths as syphilis, and kept asking for court delays hoping the plaintiffs would die before trial. Five women who could barely sit upright took them to court anyway. This is their story.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.
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About Daily Crime and Justice | Celebrity Trials, True Crime, Law, and Justice.
New episodes every day.Every morning, investigative journalist Reid Carter delivers the most explosive courtroom coverage you won't find anywhere else. From breaking verdicts to shocking confessions, Celebrity Trials is your essential daily source for the legal dramas that create celebrities, destroy reputations, and shape American culture. Seven days a week, Reid brings his signature no-nonsense analysis to the trials everyone's talking about—and the ones they should be.Whether it's a music mogul's sex trafficking case, a criminology student's murder confession, or Hollywood stars battling in civil court, Celebrity Trials cuts through the legal jargon to deliver the facts, the drama, and the cultural impact. But this isn't just about current cases. Celebrity Trials also explores the classic trials that defined American justice—from the Rosenbergs to O.J. Simpson, from Lizzie Borden to the Scopes Monkey Trial. These aren't just legal proceedings; they're cultura
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