WEBVTT - Ep9: Survive and Advance 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.240 Class Action is a production of I Heart Radio and 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:10.320 Sound Argument. Dillard University is about to embark on an 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.920 exhausting run of three competitions and the request to punch 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.400 their ticket to the national tournament. It's the same old 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.960 arson case. A bar called Chuggyes is torched, a firefighter dies, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.560 and the owner tries to collect the insurance money. Coach 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.840 Adrea kimbro In students a Maya Ronsick, DeAndre Bell, la 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.720 A Shelton, and Caitlin Douglas narrate this story. This is 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:47.120 episode nine, Survive and Advance. Okay, there's this, um, I 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.440 think this chance. Um, I think people who were on 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.960 my team for Houston. Remember I pulled you outside. I 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.400 made you'll do this chance about about this team. So 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.800 I just wanted to repeat after me and keep the 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.600 beat like I know we can't. Okay, just repeat after me. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:10.400 It's a very simple, repeat after me. This team, best team, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:15.760 This team is the best team, this team, this strong team, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:21.560 this team, this strong team. Strong. Love my team, my team, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:27.640 Love my team team, Love my team. Hello, my team, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:35.000 Hello my team. He love my team. You'll come on you. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.560 So the season is still shaping up for us. We 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:07.000 have commitments already at competitions. UM one will be the 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:12.359 University of Alabama, Pace University in New York, the University 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:23.440 of Houston, which is a great competition. Yes, it's my 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.640 cousin's house. When I knew was Houston and I was 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.000 new is this week, I was like, Yes, we're gonna 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.760 we're gonna eat good food. One of these days, we're 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.440 gonna have some good homely food with my family and 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:41.040 we're gonna have fun made you doesn't California much like Arizona. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.080 So so today is going well. Um, we are having 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.000 an opportunity to test some things out. Um also having 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.400 an opportunity to give some of our remembers a chance 0:02:54.520 --> 0:03:05.320 to get more experience. So I hate to say it 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.200 like this, but it's almost like a vlosity j V 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.520 model that happens in the screen when you put your 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.600 very bens, your your best experienced talented people all on 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.959 one team, almost like a warrior class if you will, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.400 I can all star team. Because you want to give 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.320 yourself the best shot to make it to the championships. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.840 Some of our lesser experienced people are going to be 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.560 on the team by themselves in the screen, so they're 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.880 not gonna have you know, the a Maya's lagenis the 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:47.560 deandres with them to kind of help hold them up. Alright, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:04:00.520 defense first, first of you, like Toss, I'll be playing 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.240 the role of a witness. Um specifically for this round, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.680 I'll be Scotlet Dejon. Um. It's gonna be an interesting 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.120 witness because we're trying out a new theory and we 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.640 are contending that somebody else did it, that somebody being me, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.520 and so I have to play it off like I 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.040 didn't do it, but I really know what happened. But 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:23.400 it's gonna be fun. I'm excited. Um, good morning. Everyone 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:29.000 in My name is Scotlet dejon Well at heart, I 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.240 am at that and I could play Minia roles. I 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.479 could be happy, I can be said, I can be 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.400 hoholier than now, and of course I can get a 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:41.440 little evil to you know, not at all, absolutely. I 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.039 mean she made bad business decisions, including what she did 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.479 to me. Um. The renovations were terrible. Everything that Dakoda 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.599 did really messed things up. And like you said, prior 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.320 to you saw her walking to the firehouse. Yes, and 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.040 that's what made you certain that it was missul f 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.120 At You well, I know for in fact it was her. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.600 I mean it was her, are her business. She would 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.279 be the only one there at the time, with the 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.000 exception of me, because you know I know how to 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.120 move around. That's exactly right, Mr j. Young. You know 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.880 it was her because she's the only firefighter that you know. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.360 I just connected to Chucky's and the firehouse. Well, I 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.200 wouldn't say the firefighting part was really what gave me 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.400 the ammunition I needed to know that it was her. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.120 But like I said, when I followed her to the building, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.159 followed her out of the building, that kind of thing 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.760 I made sense. Yes, I was able to tell that 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.440 she was a firefighter. My name is Audrey. About the 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.440 last room, I feel really confident about the last time 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.200 was amazing. You know that thank you, thank you, you know, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.840 like it was I'm being so serious. The judges comments, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.279 didn't know, just like he said, some good stuff. But 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.800 like I'm very proud of your clothing you thank you, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:48.600 thank you. I try to think y'all, the amount of 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.280 improvement you've shown since like the very first time you 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.640 gave a clothing, Like when I say exponential, Like no, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.080 the way you told the story, like I saw you 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.599 make the adjudgments that I suggested last night, and it 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.520 was it was, it was well done. Thank you. Okay. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.520 I know earlier I said I was really nervous to 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.920 the point of crime. But like after I went through 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.200 my first direct I know, I know, it was my 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.880 first cross, I was like so excited, like I felt 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.359 so comfortable, and I was like, I'm ready to do 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.440 it again. The Annihilat, Yes, we've given her a line name. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:29.920 This is the Annihilator speaking because of Katrina. Like, some 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.400 of my best friends in Houston are from New Orleans, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.760 and you know, we see a lot of New Orleans 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.080 elements and a lot of things that people in Houston 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.120 do because so much of Houston's population are people who 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:46.919 were displaced, you know, from New Orleans. So my dad 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.080 is the founding minister of the pastor at Joy Cathedral 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.360 UM in Houston, Texas. You know, people already know who 0:06:54.360 --> 0:07:08.600 he is, especially in the church. Everyone knows who he is. Yeah, yeah, yes, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:13.040 they're here. Good morning, day being well aboutself. DeAndre bell Is, 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.160 My name is Jason, Nice to meet you. Good morning, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.840 DeAndre bell Is. My name sir. Come on in, thank you, yes, sir. Uh, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.720 Let's walk through Uh. Through the kitchen. We have to 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.480 make shift. Excuse me, just follow me with make shifts. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.760 Since we're still in the COVID environment. I still don't 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:37.360 feel comfortable, uh, meeting face to face. I shot at 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.200 ten fifty nine, and we're normally done by eleven. My 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.640 wife will start playing behind the curtain, and then my 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.880 son and my daughter will give me directions on time 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:55.040 and we'll ahead records play and that's it. What time 0:07:55.080 --> 0:08:12.400 is it? Okay, okay, see the gonna lie. I will 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.720 bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.559 be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.040 in the Lord. The umble shall hear that rove and 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.720 be glad, old magnified. The Lord with me, and let 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:29.000 us exalt his name together. We're grateful and thankful to 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.680 God that he has allowed us this another day, another hour, 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.880 another privilege, and another opportunity. Then we might gather before 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.280 his presence to call upon His holy and righteous name. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.440 I'm grateful and thankful to God. We were still in 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.000 our first home, and so DeAndre was two years old. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.640 He grabs a microphone and he starts screaming, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.400 and his mother says, DeAndre, you're going to be hoarse. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.400 So he screams, and he's preaching. And because he was 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.720 screaming Jesus so much, he lost his voice. He put 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.440 his microphone down, drank out of his sippy cup, then 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.040 put the sippy cup down, picked his microphone back up, 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:18.719 and he started continuing. Yes, he's always been very intelligent. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.679 We call him wise beyond his years, just because if 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.360 you hold a conversation with him, even I will have 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.280 to tell him, okay, dumb that down a little bit. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.760 You know, use layman terms with me. I'm your momma, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.360 use layman terms and so. But he's always been been 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.079 that kid. DeAndre is just he's just always a character. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:43.000 He's always been a character. My head, I hear music. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.360 Over my head, I hear music. There must be a 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.240 God somewhere. And even if your instrument has gotten down 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.320 to only one string, if you can still make music, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.680 you can still red joice because of what God has 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.760 done for you. Granted, brothers and sisters, our lives may 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.640 not line up with the direction that we think they 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.720 should line up, but all in all, you and I 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.679 should be able to rejoice that God has given us 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.599 another chance to get it right. He wanted to be 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.079 a lawyer. My dad wanted to go to law school, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.400 and he was called to preach instead. And it was 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.200 crazy because over the past summer, he said, DeAndre, it's 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.960 amazing to me how I couldn't do what I wanted 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.600 to do. But God has led you to do the thing, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.720 the kind of things that I want to do. And 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.240 not only that, you've been led to not only be 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.280 a lawyer, but to preach as well. So now you 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.800 are doing two fold the things that I am doing. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.800 You know, Father God, You've given each of us a 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.280 distinct and succinct talent. Father God, You've given us each 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.240 an element of this case that we can argue to 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.200 the best of our ability. So we thank you for 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.679 the God. We thank you for the objections, the rules 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:07.720 of evidence, the case, the witnesses, the attorneys, the the openings, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.760 the closings that directs the cross as we thank you, 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.040 Father God, for putting these words in our minds and 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.240 our hearts and in our souls. Father God, so that 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.600 we may not only show them who we are, but 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.480 show them who you are. Father God, you have made 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.400 this team all that it is, Father God, And so 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.760 we thank you once more, Father God. If there's anything 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.040 I forget to ask, please don't neglect an answering for 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.640 is in your dollar's son Jesus name, We pray Amen. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.440 So today we're celebrating the University of Home Comedy Parade, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.480 and so we're all excited about this our first parass 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.520 from the season. When I say season of the last 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.680 two years, you know, because of to COVID everything was canceled. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.640 So we have a big parade and celebrating the coming 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.960 back of Gentillion, coming back to the city of New 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:35.680 Orleans and all the kids coming in. Yes, the WiFi 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:42.360 pass were the same with the app sign and we're 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.800 definitely still practicing. Is that to adjust because of home 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.320 Coming week events, So we're having an extended three hour 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:57.400 practice tonight, so we're still doing the work. This weekend 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.880 is our Regionals tournament. Unfortunately was put online due to 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.640 COVID nineteen. But um, this is the tournament that decides 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.280 like if our season is over and not basically if 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.480 we make it past this will go to like Nationals 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.120 and stuff like that. I'm kind of bummed because I 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.680 really wish you would have been in person, but it 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.640 is a lot of pressure now because like this is 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:24.600 my last shot at it. She's gonna switch out with you. Okay, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.280 like you know how on defense, you're on your on 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.280 defense and Taylor, so can Taylor use yours? Yeah? I 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:36.959 thought no, which to DeAndre? Please tell me you got 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:43.760 the own flock computer? Okay, where's I Let me put 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:50.400 it together. We are putting together ring lights so that 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.840 we can have good lighting for the competition. I'm excited 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.440 because we're ready to We're ready to kick some behind. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:04.520 Can someone test grain sharing please? That's it. The defense 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:09.199 is ready to procede your honor first, and are I 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.760 would like to acknowledge that Dakota Settler is constructively present 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:19.360 throughout trial today and it's constructively wearing a red tie. Second. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.200 Here on, I'm entering a character events form which both 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.360 parties have signed on the chat. In terms of the 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:30.800 level of experience collectively, this is the most experienced team 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.920 that we've had, and so um, this is our very 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:39.320 best chance to make it back to the championship, and 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.840 I like our chances. I was talking to some of 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.320 them even today. I was like, well, it's our last rodeo, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.400 like this, this is it, and um, I would very 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.160 much like for them to experience that joy. I mean, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.880 you think about you do all of this work, this 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.240 all this excitement around you know, a piece of plastic essentially, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.240 this trophy that you get, but it represents so much 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:06.600 more than that, particularly for those students who have been 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.040 on this team all four years of their college experience. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.239 It represents such a huge part of their deal and experience. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.120 They've invested a lot of time, energy, and effort in 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.240 an activity that they get no academic credit for, they 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.360 don't get paid for. They've invested a tremendous amount, and 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.920 I would just love for them to be able to 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.240 have the experience of making it too the championship before 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:37.840 they leave here. So I'm a senior. I'm actually applying 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:43.760 to law school right now. I made this document when 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.880 I was nineteen years old. I'm twenty one now. Before 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.400 they were like maybe eighty schools on here, and I've 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.720 researched every single one until I was able to narrow 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.880 it down to fifteen. Okay, So in this document, I've 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.800 listed the institution, the rank of the institution. It was 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.240 in portant to me that I had some institutions that 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.400 could take me anywhere I wanted to go, and then 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.760 I have these schools in green because my pre law 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.480 advisor thought that I should look into them to see 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.680 my chances of getting a full right scholarship. So that's 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.080 why I have those highlighted. But as far as the 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.760 schools that I'm applying to UM in one category, as 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:19.800 far as where I think I could get the most 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.720 money is FORDAM Texas A and M Northeastern University of Miami, St. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.480 John's and Howard. All of those have great financial aid 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:32.360 programs based on my score, and they also have UM 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.880 a wide variety of individuals that look like me. I 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.760 think the diversity is great at the schools. They have 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.720 great clinics, and I would be happy going to either 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:44.760 of them. N YU actually has this great clinic UM 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.440 by Brian Stevenson who who runs it, and they do 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.040 a lot of death penalty work capital punishment cases. And 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.200 after reading his book Just Mercy and realizing how how 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.040 we treat people involved in the chrominal justice system, specifically 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.680 those who were even the death penalty or on death 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.520 row UM, I was really able to connect with it 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.000 and not only see the humanity and the people that 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.879 he was talking about, but I wanted to introduce that 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.760 concept into the legal field. Even though there are empathetic lawyers, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.800 I don't think there are enough. People always say, UM, well, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.880 how can you defend these types of people or these 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.719 types of people deserve this? And it's really not that simple, 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.560 So UM, I would love to learn more from him. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.800 UM and plus n y U s I think the 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.640 highest ranked criminal law program in the country. So as 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.320 far as the schools that I think can open the 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.960 most doors, those are gonna be Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, n 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.600 y U, Georgetown, U T Austin, Boston University, University of 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.959 Southern California, and Emery. All of those schools have been 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.520 to rank very highly when it comes to placing students 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.399 in federal clerkships after after law school, which is a 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.760 big deal. That's something that I'm interested in and I 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:56.240 want the door to be open for me if I 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.639 decided to walk through it. But my personal statement is 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.240 mainly about a time in my life where I felt 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.960 um that my voice wasn't being heard or that I 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.840 was suppressing my feelings, and how through mock trial I 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.680 was able to not only find my voice but realize 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.760 what I wanted to do. Now that I regained it, 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.680 I'm gonna trying to find a good part. Okay, here's 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.080 one paragraph I can read. That same day, I signed 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.880 up for something called mock trial, thinking I would learn 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.000 a few things about speaking effectively. I began sitting in 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.280 the backup practices and watching the student lawyers argue their cases. 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.080 My coaches didn't let that fly for too long. They 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.040 insisted I lead strategy discussions and present every side of 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:38.879 the case until I knew the facts of the story 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.480 like it were my own. The courtroom became the place 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.080 where I felt the most comfortable. I learned that being 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.600 a litigator isn't about the objections you make or how 0:18:46.640 --> 0:19:00.720 smart you sound. It's about the stories you tell. Usually 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:11.520 le how long was yours? And start praying music. I 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.080 think that's what she's trying to can I can catch 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.399 a beat. I can catch a beat, But staying on it, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.320 that's another story. I feel like a lot of guys 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.440 in this setup right now, I do that. Okay, I'm 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.240 gonna try to do this without crying. No. I was 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.400 just telling Ms Friesen and some others that my freshman 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.720 year on the team, I just remember being super nervous 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:37.800 and just wanted to cry because I just didn't think 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.560 I was ready, And then the tears that I have 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.040 today is not from that place. I'm not anxious at all. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.400 I'm excited, and I'm proud of each and every one 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.919 of y'all and the growth that I've seen on the team. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.000 Like I'm not even I'm here to show up one 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.280 last time for you guys at regionals. But no, I 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.920 know that it's been stressful. There's been tension on the team. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.600 There's been you know, times or some us wanted to 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.479 quit and I didn't. I didn't mean to look at 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.840 nobody in particularly, but you know, I'm just really excited 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:10.520 for where you guys are at right now, and I 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.120 can't wait to come back and be able to judge 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.960 one of y'all's rounds and and just to see how 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.640 far y'all have come. Oh Okay, that's it. That's it. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.800 Let's let's go in there and kick. But let's just 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:45.879 win and do what we came here to do. Period. Hello, 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.199 your honor, my name is Amya Ronsic, and alongside my 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:52.080 co council DeAndre Cabell, the Second, Hello you, and Renee 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.320 sime In. Hello your honor, we probably represent the Code 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:00.560 Sutcliffe in this matter. And you don't know what debris 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.920 or evidence they moved away from Jalen And no, I'm 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.679 not aware I was outside. And you also didn't interview 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:12.520 these officers after your investigation, did you. No, you also 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.000 didn't require them to write a report about what debris 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:20.920 was removed. Relevance and Michael pet was a tragic objection 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.960 yard into facts not in evidence or testifying to facts 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.360 not in evidence. You explain your objection, Yes, your honor 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.960 opposing counsel is eliciting information, hearsay information from an article 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:38.120 that has not yet been entered. Okay, I gotta get 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.120 ready to help him turn off the lights. I'm gonna 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:42.879 stand in my spot. Do you want him to get 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.879 on yours? Okay? Do the tester DeAndre come back in 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:51.480 the room in the back of the room. Um, I 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:59.200 have to switch the lights off. Um. DeAndre has a 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.960 little demonstra if he does. Um for his closing. Because 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.680 the whole contention is that the witnesses they bought to 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.840 make an identification possibly couldn't have made it because they 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:11.399 claimed somebody in a black in all black with a 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:13.920 black hoodie pulled up at a three or fourth angle 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:16.440 with the lights off is obviously this person. So he's 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:18.960 gonna go fifty feet away with a black countee on it, 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:24.119 We're gonna turn the lights off. Very much as a 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:34.840 Hail Mary, your honor, opposing counsel members of the jury, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.280 at the beginning of today's trial, you heard my co 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:41.720 counsel come before you and tell you that the prosecution 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:45.800 did not wait for the smoke to clear. And now 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:49.320 by the end of trial you've seen that before the Chuggy, 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:52.240 the smoke of the Chuggy's fire was able to dissipate, 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:55.960 before a clear picture of what actually happened on July 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:03.360 was made prevalent, before thorough investigation was completed, the prosecution 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.760 rushed to try and convict my client the code of 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:13.520 Sutcliffe of aggravated arsent. And so don't believe it wait 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:19.360 for the smoke too clear, because had the prosecution waited 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:23.639 for the smoke to clear, they would have understood that 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:28.679 a figure standing not five, not ten, not fifteen, not twenty, 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:33.800 not thirty, not forty, but fifty feet away, standing at 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.720 a three fours angle with a hoodie on their hood 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:42.399 raised up and the lights off would have rendered a 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:53.200 verdict in today's case of not guilty. Were good were 0:23:53.240 --> 0:24:08.440 good time, I'm loving you. I'm yes, Mr Bull that 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:13.080 I love here like yes, indeed, that's go with me. 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:17.960 That's definitely. Idn't laugh so bad. I'm so lu and 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:21.359 I know you choke know no, no, no, was like 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.720 he started that, I don't keep tabs on. I don't 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:35.639 keep tab with that lady. I don't keep that woman. 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.400 Don getting that on these comics with that judge laughing, 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:41.040 am I asked you don't have eyes in the back 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:46.480 of your head that he asked, right, I don't even 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:49.440 know what lines like. I told this line. I said, 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:52.200 I hate that question. But he loves No, he hate 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:57.720 that question. People you just like this, he us, Oh no, 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:08.119 he hate that up love That's what I'm like. That 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:14.840 was good. That was good. That did That's where happens. 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:18.640 That's real. That's real progress for the team. That's really 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:23.040 that's real progress for the team because it's growth because certainly, 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:26.920 like the trial was great, but the fact that y'all 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:30.040 were a flappable, like, that's progress because y'all know how 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:33.720 we do. I said, you see this judge is not 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:36.960 here for objection arguments. You see this other team is 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:40.439 not really objecting at all, Like I hope we sensed 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:42.600 the temperature in the room and adjudge, and I think 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:48.080 we did. Historically, Black colleges and universities across the country 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:51.000 have been the target of several bomb threats. This year. 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:54.560 Dillard University in New Orleans is the latest HBCU to 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.040 get a bomb threat. Leaders say several law enforcement agencies 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:00.760 were called in this morning and they're investor stigating where 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:03.520 this threat came from. Stay with us here at w 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:05.480 D s U as we continue to get updates on 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:14.800 this developing story. Oh god, the fank is happening around 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.240 Black his three months right, very much has it's giving. 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:21.080 Clan now knows how to use the internet. It's giving. 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.320 We can't burn crosses anymore, but we can still use 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:29.359 a telephone. It's giving. New Grand Wizard is a young person? 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:37.119 Shut up because that's very much truly. No. Do you 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:39.160 think they follow Robert's rules of order? At the meeting, 0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:41.359 they was like somebody was like, okay, um, we have 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:43.439 a motion on the floor to do these seven schools 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:47.080 this week. Um can I um get a second? Can 0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:50.480 I get a second? Point of order? Yes, I Grand 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:56.400 Wizard recognizes brother Jeffrey. Next point of business. I'm gonna 0:26:56.440 --> 0:26:58.920 be honest. We've been get bomb threats probably since I 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:01.879 was in middle school. Come on now, very much getting 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:04.200 old white supresso at this point. If I get bombed, 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:11.439 I'm going to heaven. I've had um very racist experience. 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:13.480 My first racist experience in the streetports was in the 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:16.480 fourth grade at the elementary school. My grandmother was a 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:19.560 cafeteria manager at and the teacher was going around in 0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:23.080 the circle asking if everybody with their nicknames were and 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:26.000 my nickname is KK in my household, and so I 0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:28.000 said money names KK, And of course she made a 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:31.520