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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace breaking news bombshell State versus

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Speaker 1: D four v D aka David Anthony Burke as it

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Speaker 1: relates to the death of a little teen girl, Celeste Rivas,

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Speaker 1: found in the trunk of D four VD David Anthony

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Speaker 1: Burke's tesla. What's taking so long? But now we have

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Speaker 1: seen a court document that says State versus David Anthony Burke.

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Speaker 1: You know about that secret grand jury proceeding that was

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Speaker 1: just an investigative tool looking into the death of Celestia Revas. No,

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Speaker 1: David Anthony Burke is named as the official defendant. Good evening,

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us, joining us an all

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Speaker 1: star panel to make sense of what we are learning

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Speaker 1: right now. But I've got it in front of me.

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Speaker 1: Dave Mac explain what we found.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you look at this at the documentation from

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Speaker 2: the State of California, Nancy, it it flat out says

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Speaker 2: something that we've long thought was the case. But it

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Speaker 2: actually the bombshell the people of the State of California

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Speaker 2: versus David Anthony Burke. See, we thought, you know, it

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Speaker 2: was just an investigation, because that's what they said an

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Speaker 2: investigation into the death of Celestrevas Sernandez. However, this document

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Speaker 2: proves beyond the shadow of a doubt legal paperwork that

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Speaker 2: says the State of California versus David Anthony Burke.

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Speaker 1: Now, what's interesting in this particular court document and what

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Speaker 1: it is is an appeal to the Court of Appeals.

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Speaker 1: They're in Texas. The reason it's in Texas is because

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Speaker 1: his family, Burke's family is a Texas and they are

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Speaker 1: appealing a subpoena to come to the grand jury. Now,

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Speaker 1: the title of that document is in the Court of

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Speaker 1: Appeals for the First District of Texas in Ray Dowod Burke. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean in the matter of Dowd Burke.

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Speaker 1: But in a footnote, in a footnote in this document

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Speaker 1: you see the people of the State of California versus

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Speaker 1: David Burke. Okay, I'm going to get back to everything

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Speaker 1: else we are learning, but I'm going to go straight

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Speaker 1: out to a veteran trial lawyer, Joanna Nievis is joining

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Speaker 1: us from California criminal defense attorney and founder of the

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Speaker 1: Nievis Law Firm. Joanna, thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: So this is what's happening to my understanding, and you

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Speaker 1: jump in. Joanna, the family of d four med David

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Speaker 1: Anthony Burke pronounced as David, has been subpoenaed, the whole

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Speaker 1: family to testify in a grand jury proceeding regarding the

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Speaker 1: death of Celesta Rivas, the little girl found in Burke's trunk.

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Speaker 1: Let's see that tesla. It was part in spot to

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Speaker 1: spot to spot on Pass Street there in California until

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Speaker 1: it was finally toad at the behest of one of

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Speaker 1: the homeowners days sitting at the toe lot and it

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Speaker 1: started a stench. Why because Celesto Rivas was decomposing in

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Speaker 1: the trunk. We were told there is an investigative grand

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Speaker 1: jury the US. I believe you will agree with me

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Speaker 1: that grand juries have two tools, one a charging tool

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Speaker 1: to indict people and one an investigation tool. For instance,

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Speaker 1: in the John Binney Ramsey case. In the Ramsey case,

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Speaker 1: the grand jury met and they met, and they met,

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Speaker 1: and they met investigating John Benet's death. They ultimately did

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Speaker 1: issue an indictment, but that case was prosecuted. So a

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Speaker 1: grand jury can meet to investigate. They have subpoena power.

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Speaker 1: They can bring in witnesses or they can charge. We

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Speaker 1: were told this was an investigation into Celeste's death. Now

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Speaker 1: we have an official court document filed by the parents

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Speaker 1: contesting them having to come from Texas to California to

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Speaker 1: textify in state the David Anthony Burke, So a case

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Speaker 1: against him, a case investigating him does exist, explain what's happening, Joanna.

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Speaker 3: Right, Nancy, So, I do believe that it does outline

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Speaker 3: what the target of this investigation is. It's not just

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Speaker 3: trying to uncover who it may be and get more information. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: information against this particular person that's named in the footnote

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Speaker 3: they're in the charging document. Assuming that that was cited properly,

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Speaker 3: think is kind of more procedural. Right, they're in Texas,

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Speaker 3: this is happening in California, and it's their attempt to say,

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Speaker 3: you know what, I don't really feel like California can

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Speaker 3: drag me over there based on this subpoena, and I

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Speaker 3: want a court to say that, yes, absolutely, you have

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Speaker 3: So I think it's kind of like one of those

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Speaker 1: Here specifically what they are arguing it is de Woodburg,

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Speaker 1: the father Dave four Fidi's mother Colleen, and his brother Caleb,

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Speaker 1: they are contesting that, claiming they're right have been violated.

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Speaker 1: Why do they claim their rights were violated? They claim

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Speaker 3: Good luck, I think we see this pretty often though, like, hey, you,

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Speaker 3: We see this pretty often, so I don't think that

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Speaker 3: they are making absurd arguments. I do think they're just

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Speaker 3: trying to protect their interests and of course the interests

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Speaker 3: of their son at this point, because he's still innocent

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Speaker 3: until proven guilty.

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for you to say that. But this

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Speaker 1: And yes, notice must be proper. In other words, they

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Speaker 1: have to be served with subpoena properly. There has to

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Speaker 1: to see an affidavit, all right, but they do have

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Speaker 1: You've got priests, parishioner privilege such as what you tell

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Speaker 1: That cannot be forced in court. The rabbi, the priest

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Speaker 1: got husband wife privilege. There are several privileges, but he's

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Speaker 1: my daddy. Ain't one of them. Neevice, no, for sure.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I do think there's a word that

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Speaker 3: David's dad does have some type of affiliation with the church,

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Speaker 3: and I do wonder whether or not he may take

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Speaker 3: some stand that his son to just say him from

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Speaker 1: Thought you were going to hit me with the fact

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Speaker 3: His dad is a lawyer.

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Speaker 1: But you're going he has an affiliation with the church.

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Speaker 1: What affiliation would that be? He drives by it on

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Speaker 3: And here all of this is all reported, right, it's

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Speaker 3: It's an angle. I don't know that they're really actually

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Speaker 3: the conversations that have happened, if there really is this

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Speaker 3: doesn't have a father son privilege, and maybe he has

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Speaker 1: That he is. I shouldn't have given you that idea.

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Speaker 1: you know what, You're not half wrong, Joanna, as much

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Speaker 1: grief as I'm giving you. Remember when Rosie Greer, the

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Speaker 1: and according to the sheriff, Sipson confessed that was kept

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Speaker 3: I've heard no reportings besides suspicions that there's any proof regarding.

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Speaker 1: missing person's private investigator, search and rescue specialist, and he

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Speaker 1: four VD was living to basically find out what the

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Speaker 1: hay happened. Could you refresh Joanna Nievis's recollection regarding the

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Speaker 1: relationship that you have cobbled together through photos. I know

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Speaker 1: you were not in the room when any alleged sex

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Speaker 1: But you've seen a lot of photos. You even recovered

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Speaker 1: Tell me what relationship based on the photos that you

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm certain that one thing that's become very apparent

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Speaker 1: A lot See Fisher, You're absolutely right, but I want

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Speaker 1: Steve Fisher showed up at that building.

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Speaker 4: They showed the prosecutor arriving at that building. He was

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Speaker 4: You know, He's got a lot more information than thirty

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Speaker 1: And well, you're right, Steve Fisher, that timing cannot be denied.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't stay long, about forty minutes and then

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Speaker 1: No good, wouldn't taught agree. Don't blame her, but I

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Speaker 3: I agree with you, Nancy. I mean, as a lawyer,

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Speaker 1: How about this, Joeanna. Maybe they put him up and

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Speaker 1: Steve Fisher, you went before LAPD did You thought of

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm not saying either of those. You know I

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Speaker 1: Steve Fisher again, Steve, I had no idea you could

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Speaker 1: Because mister Burke is a lawyer. Either HI tell it

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Speaker 2: Got everything, Nancy. The one thing that we talked about

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Speaker 2: That's our bottom line. We actually know that it's not

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Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about the

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Speaker 1: two one three four eight six six' eight nine. Zero

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Speaker 1: thank you to our guests for being with, us but

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