Rebuttal

Illinois attorneys John Steele and Paul Hansmeier had an X-rated dream: to represent the “little guys”. The wrongfully accused? The juvenile delinquents? The small businesses? Porn production companies, of course. What started out as a seemingly legitimate copyright business model snowballed into what Federal Judge Otis D. Wright II called “a porno trolling collective”. Yes, there are court transcripts. Wolf of Wall Street meets Suits meets adult film stars meets iconic court transcripts. Hear Reb unzip the epic saga of Prenda Law and Ingenuity 13 LLC v. John Doe (2012). INTRO: 00:00 CASE STARTS: 11:10 *** WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/k4WWI3XE99U Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Sources/Articles/Transcripts/Court Orders Defense attorneys: Prenda litigation is 'unbelievable', 'just epic' - Washington Examiner (Dec. 23, 2012) (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/defense-attorneys-prenda-litigation-is-unbelievable-just-epic) What Prenda Law is facing in Los Angeles - Ken White, Pope Hat (Mar. 6, 2013) (https://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing-in-los-angeles/) Copyright Troll Case Tossed For 'Fraud On The Court' After Abbott & Costello-Worthy Hearing - Mike Masnick, TechDirt (Dec. 3, 2012) (https://www.techdirt.com/2012/12/03/copyright-troll-case-tossed-fraud-court-after-abbott-costello-worthy-hearing/) John Steele's Property Caretaker Intervenes in Copyright Trolling Case, Alleging Identity Theft - Mike Masnick, TechDirt (Dec. 7, 2012) (https://www.techdirt.com/2012/12/07/john-steeles-property-caretaker-intervenes-copyright-trolling-case-alleging-identity-theft/) Prenda Law's Attorneys Take The Fifth Rather Than Answer Judge Wright's Questions - Ken White, Pope Hat (April 2, 2013) (https://www.popehat.com/2013/04/02/prenda-laws-attorneys-take-the-fifth-rather-than-answer-judge-wrights-questions/) Deep Dive: Prenda Law Is Dead - Ken White, Pope Hat (April 2, 2013) (https://www.techdirt.com/2013/04/02/deep-dive-prenda-law-is-dead/) Judge Orders Prenda Law Group Beamed Out Into Space - Lowering The Bar (May 7, 2013) (https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/05/judge-orders-prenda-law-group-beamed-out-into-space.html) Judge Wright's Sanctions Order (May 6, 2013), https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PendaSanctionsOrder.pdf 'Look, you may hate me': 90 minutes with John Steele, porn troll - Joe Mullin, ArsTechnica (May 10, 2013) (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/look-you-may-hate-me-90-minutes-with-john-steele-prenda-porn-troll/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pro Tip: When you become a billionaire overnight, use protection (or get coup insurance). The true story of the U-Haul family feud that lasted 40 years (and counting). Listen to Reb dodge brotherly punches in Shoen v. Shoen (1993). *** WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/D7-z6CcKwnI Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A prison break, the oldest biker gang in the world, 558 death sentences, a body in a river, and the man who tried to dodge death just to run straight into it. Twice. The Supreme Court in 1976 had no idea it would set off a chain of events worthy of a biopic and a newfound appreciation for Harley Davidsons, bro code, and a really catchy crime syndicate slogan. Rev (Reb?) your engines. It's about to get bloody. The penalty is death in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). WATCH THIS EPISODE YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/IWohmpaeS7c?si=Ephgw-G9rmO66Bg_ Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 1969, the police have been legally allowed to lie to you. Yes, you. About anything. Anywhere and everywhere. And they do. All the time. One of their favorite tricks is to use the “false evidence ploy” to convince you to take a lesser guilty plea instead of risking a trial. Despite millions of guilty pleas entered in this country based on deception and misinformation, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that it is okay for cops to be dirty liars. Reb teaches you when and how to shut your mouth as she runs through Frazier v. Cupp, Miranda v. Arizona, the "Interrogation Bible" used to train cops in the US, and the rights everyone should know how to exercise. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/0g20SUTnSRQ Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** SOURCES CITED: "FROM FALSE EVIDENCE PLOY TO FALSE GUILTY PLEA: AN UNJUSTIFIED PATH TO SECURING CONVICTIONS" by Katie Wynbrandt, Yale Law Journal (2016) "PUBLIC TRUST AND POLICE DECEPTION" by Julia Simon-Kerr, Northeastern University Law Review (2019) Time Magazine Article: "Law Enforcement Experts on Why Police Shouldn't be Allowed to Lie to Suspects," by Saul Kassin (Dec. 16, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Never underestimate the power of a smile and a slow walk during a good old-fashioned B&E. Learn your way around the thin, thin lines between burglary, larceny, robbery, and Goldie Locks catching a felony charge. Reb unpacks why a burglary defendant with yard work to do got his conviction overturned in State v. Bertram (2023). WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@RebuttalPod Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fugitive wanted for murder stares at two newlyweds through a window on their back porch in Dover, Kansas on a Saturday morning in 2009. He makes them an offer: $10,000 to hide him, please. Cheetos, Dr. Pepper, and a Robin Williams movie seal the deal. Or did it? In State v. Dimmick, Reb begs you to either get it in writing or lock your door. CASE STARTS: 4:50 WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/NcziP4Q0Prk Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, there are over five million Native Americans in the United States, 22% of whom live on reservations. Native American women are murdered at a rate 10x the national average, and are 2.5x more likely to be victims of sexual assault. A majority of these violent crimes are perpetrated by non-tribal members on Tribal Lands, and over half of them are never investigated or prosecuted. Why? Reb has a few ideas. Listen to her untangle every "what the f*#k?!" in United States v. Cooley (2021). WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/e4vYfHznAwM Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1980s were a lawless time for the funeral home community. This is the insane true story of David Sconce, the mortician who would stop at nothing to corner the market on death in the City of Angels. Listen to Reb dodge burning feet and murder conspiracies in People v. Sconce. CASE BEGINS: 10:20 *** WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/neF3ie5dtbA Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Sources: Article: "The Mortician and The Murderer," by Angella d'Avignon for Topic.com (2019) Book: "A Family Business," by Ken Englade (1992) *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Guantánamo Bay detention center is a 45-mile stretch of land the U.S. has leased from Cuba since the Spanish-American War. After 9/11, President Bush needed a place where Due Process, the courts, and lawyers couldn't reach 780 men and boys, many of whom were sold to the U.S. military for a $5,000 bounty. Who and what have we kept at Guantánamo Bay for the last 22 years? Terrorists? No. A legal blackhole? Yes. *** WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@RebuttalPod Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) SOURCE CITED: The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. Explore the complete archive of narratives at http://dlib.nyu.edu/guantanamo "The Guantánamo Docket": https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html *** SUPPORT PUBLIC DEFENSE HERE: ⁠https://www.gideonspromise.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠www.innocenceproject.org⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.aclu.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/⁠ SUPPORT KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE: ⁠https://supportkind.org/⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trigger Warnings: Graphic descriptions of execution by lethal injection and men who whine on the record. In that order. *** U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts, the *first* openly gay federal judge in the U.S. (!!!): https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/annual-observances/pride-month Support the Human Rights Defense Center: https://www.humanrightsdefensecenter.org/donate/ *** FOLLOW US: https://www.instagram.com/rebuttalpod/ WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@RebuttalPod **Select BONUS EPISODES will be available in video format to future Patreon subscribers at a later date** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our powers in the sky (the NTSB and the FAA) apparently think liars are more dangerous than absolutely terrible pilots. Crack open a bottle of wine and listen to a pilot horror story. Fly at your own risk. Hopefully the moose waves back at us before we hit a mountain. Reb flies you through clear, Alaskan, pathological skies in U.S. v. Kirst (2022). WATCH ON YOUTUBE: ⁠https://youtu.be/6c4HX85g1wk Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Alaska Pilot Sentenced in Connection with August 2014 Atigun Pass Crash: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/alaska-pilot-sentenced-connection-august-2014-atigun-pass-crash *** FOLLOW REB ON: TikTok: @rebmasel Instagram: @rebmasel Twitter: @rebmasel FOLLOW REBUTTAL POD ON: Instagram: @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebuttalpod YouTube: Rebuttal Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deadly weapons are between our legs, trains, and automobiles. Yep, you read that right. Reb gives us a front row seat to three freak "accidents" that will convince you the universe hates some people a little more than most. Buckle up. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/pqNYYww8nQw *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reb picks up where we left off in Part 1. The cannibals have been saved....Or so they thought. Hear how the 1883 murder case of Regina v. Dudley & Stephens shaped the defense of "necessity" and decided, once and for all, that eating people is........? WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/NLpgPmRaZFo *** SOURCE: "Is Eating People Wrong?" by Allan C. Huchinson. *** FOLLOW REB ON: TikTok: @rebmasel Instagram: @rebmasel Twitter: @rebmasel FOLLOW REBUTTAL POD ON: Instagram: @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebuttalpod YouTube: Rebuttal Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1883, one rich lawyer's dream of being in a yacht club ends with the answer to a very important legal question: "Is eating people wrong?" Reb takes us back to a controversial case on the sea that changed criminal law forever. REB'S LIFE UPDATE: 0:00 to 9:20 CASE STARTS: 9:20- WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/N2TLONFBQBs Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** SOURCE: "Is Eating People Wrong?" by Allan C. Hutchinson. *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2004, Taruk Ben-Ali left his new wife to start a new life....somewhere else. At least, that's what his dad said. Reb shows you what's behind a dad's love and a very thin wall in the case of Estate of Ben-Ali (2013). WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: ⁠ https://youtu.be/KnbEgRWcgSw Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lumberjack, a frying pan, a diaper, a shootout, and a fridge that severed a hand. **Select BONUS EPISODES will be available in video format to future Patreon subscribers at a later date** *** SUPPORT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM HERE: ⁠⁠https://givingcompass.org/topics/criminal-justice?subcategories=criminal-justice⁠ AND HERE: ⁠⁠https://www.sentencingproject.org⁠ SUPPORT PUBLIC DEFENSE HERE: ⁠⁠https://www.gideonspromise.org/⁠⁠ AND HERE: ⁠www.innocenceproject.org⁠⁠⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.aclu.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠⁠https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/⁠ SUPPORT KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE: ⁠⁠https://supportkind.org/⁠ ⁠ SUPPORT REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: ⁠⁠https://reproductiverights.org/⁠⁠ ⁠ *** FOLLOW REB ON: TikTok: @rebmasel⁠ Instagram: @rebmasel⁠ Twitter: @rebmasel FOLLOW REBUTTAL POD ON: Instagram: @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebuttalpod YouTube: Rebuttal Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 23, 2000, 12-year old Ansche Hedgepeth ate a single french fry in the Tenleytown-AU Metro station in Washington, D.C. on her way home from Alice Deal Junior High. Within seconds, she was in handcuffs. Why? Because a D.C. law dared to ask a simple question: "What if we just...arrested all the kids?"....Reb unpacks Hedgepeth v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit. [TW: ARREST OF MINOR CHILDREN] FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/i4bYMAB1BAc Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) 2006 ABCNews article mentioned: ⁠https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/01/08/update-girl-whose-french-fry-arrest-led-to-metro-policy-change-sets-sights-on-college-career/c221cecd-19bb-4d59-aa2d-a26eacf61830/⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is a “sterile area” of an airport? What happens if a man enters one, poses as a foreign ambassador, and then flies with a mystery pouch from Chicago to LA? Does that man at least have a G&T on the plane before the FBI starts scrambling? Reb breaks it all down in United States v. Flint. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/4wBpED4AXv8 Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices