LAL Live Part 1: A Confidential Witness in J6 + Hearsay Evidence (NPS June 17)

<p>Norm opens the show with an update on the New Fairfield Fire Department's announcement of an internal investigation and the lack of transparency in how it was reported by the Hearst-owned, local print newspaper. Why report the tease and not the story? What was so inflammatory?</p> <p>It turns out, the inflammatory comments from a firefighter are alleged related to Juneteenth and the Confederate Flag. Norm speculates on the type of comment that might have formed the basis of the internal investigation, silly or not. Norm references the recent civil lawsuit stemming from crowd chants at a high school sports event and analyzes the legal merits of such an emotional distress claim. </p> <p>The main event of this segment is Norm's analysis of the legal evidentiary standards attendant to hearsay evidence. Why? Well, the New York Times has reported that the J6 Select Committee is relying on hearsay testimony of a confidential witness. Norm queries: how is this the best quality evidence the House Select Committee has amassed after such a prolonged and resource-intensive investigation?</p> <p>Moreover, is the Select Committee's preoccupation with the J6 investigation—one that has turned out to be lackluster and undisciplined—is now threatening to have a disproportionate negative effect on the due process required for the lawful prosecution of the J6 defendants, including Proud Boy Joe Biggs. Norm gives listeners a crash course on the evidentiary concept of hearsay, how it functions, and what is not hearsay either by definition or by exception.</p> <p>How is Joe Biggs to reasonably expect a fair and impartial jury, and thus due process, in an environment where an announcement has been made that the President of the United States organized an attempted coup based on the unsworn testimony of an unnamed witness? </p> <p>Norm updates on a recent Rasmussen Poll of everday Americans' concerns, including immigration, inflation, rising crime, and more. </p> <p>He then closes with remarks about Steven Bannon's predicament now tha