Beat The Prosecution
Welcome to Beat The Prosecution with Fairfax, Virginia criminal defense / DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz. Jon Katz believes in spreading the word of justice on this podcast, in court, and on his blog at https://katzjustice.com/blog, to regularly provide information and ideas for beating your prosecution. More information is available at https://BeatTheProsection.com and at (703)-383-1100.
Episodes
62 episodes
Winning at sentencing and with commutation- Felicia Donald, former federal inmate released under the CARES Act
Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz named this podcast Beat the Prosecution in sync with his teacher SunWolf's watchwo...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:00:54
Winning by throwing your full self into the battle: Ofelia Calderon- Virginia crimmigration lawyer
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz first met local highly-regarded immigration / crimmigration lawyer Ofelia Calderon (Merrifield, Fairfax, Virgi...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:01:11
Applying psychodrama and other winning Trial Lawyers College approaches- Charles Abourezk, Chief Justice of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Supreme Court
South Dakota trial lawyer Charles Abourezk has a compelling story as a lawyer and beyond that role. He grew up on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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58:51
From Guantanamo and back- Winning with full devotion to clients, persuasion, and fearlessness: Rosa Eliades- Criminal Defense Lawyer & Trial Consultant
Every criminal defense and other trial lawyer faces the possible moment of truth about how to handle an unjust judicial directive. This week's guest Rosa Eliades -- along with lead...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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59:34
First Amendment FIRE Lawyers Harvey Silverglate & Robert Corn-Revere- Winning by staying true to our principles
One of the two founders of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education -- Harvey Silverglate -- figured the group might no last much past ten years beyond its 1999 founding. Instead, Silverglat...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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1:06:13
Demanding fully of ourselves in serving criminal defendants- Senior Virginia public defender Michael Cash
In this Beat the Prosecution episode, Fairfax, Virginia, criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jon Katz talks with the fifth public defender lawyer to be on this podcast. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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57:29
Winning while redefining what is victory: Trial Teacher & Asheville criminal defense lawyer Fredilyn Sison
"I lucked out with getting interviewed by a great host." Those are the words of this episode's guest Fredilyn "Fredi" Sison, upon speaking for the first time on a podcast. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:04:42
View from risking incarceration- Winning from the heart center- Peace & Plowshares activist Susan Crane
For the first time on Fairfax, northern Virginia criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz's podcast, we have one of his former clients joining us.
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:05:22
Decades of mindfulness & meditation practice- Winning by bursting with positive energy and focus- Jonathan Foust
Fairfax, Northern Virginia criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz knows the benefit of mindfulness and meditative practice to beating the prosecution and to living a great life. Jon Katz's main mindful...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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59:13
Practicing law & martial arts- Winning with deep listening & calmness- My early taijiquan teacher Len Kennedy
Lawyers were two of Fairfax, Northern Virginia criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz's early inspirations on the taijiquan / tai ch'i ch'uan path, those being the late
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:03:06
Advocating for immigrants: Winning with full client engagement & teamwork: Crimmigration lawyer and former immigration judge Paul Grussendorf
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz's first client visit to a jail was with his law professor and immigration legal clinic director Paul Grussendorf. Jon Katz's first two trials were also with Paul, one a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:00:23
Whale Wars' Paul Watson: Winning with Courage, Passion and Imagination
In mid-December 2024, Denmark released Captain Paul Watson (co-founder of Greenpeace, and founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) after five mon...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:02:50
Marijuana battles as incentives for winning- NORML founder Keith Stroup & political director Morgan Fox
Marijuana in large part accelerated Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz's transition from working at a corporate law firm to becoming a criminal defense lawyer many years ago. Jon Katz one day read about a federal prosecutor's issuance of a s...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:02:31
Overlap between emergency room physicians & criminal defense lawyers- Winning through resilience, internal strengthening & developed perception: Zen priest Wendy Lau, M.D.
Great criminal defense is like delivering clients excellent results while balanced on a pinnacle thousands of feet above the ground below. For that reason, Fairfax criminal / Virginia DUI attorney Jon Katz h...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:01:54
Standing firm against injudicious judging- Attorney Sameera Ali, VACDL president Lauren Whitley, lawyer Erin Smith & attorney Jim Magner
Criminal defense lawyers must hang together lest they hang separately. Northern Virginia lawyer Sameera Ali accepted an Alexandria Juvenile & Domestic Relations (JDR) Court request to repr...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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55:00
Using the Bill of Rights for sexual freedom- Ricci Levy of Woodhull Sexual Freedom Foundation & Florida lawyer Larry Walters
Now that marijuana has become heavily decriminalized in Virginia and beyond, Fairfax criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz sees drug reform and protecting adults' right to choose their consensual s...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:00:59
Relentless defense on the road to victory- Fairfax public defender / Justice Forward Virginia leader Bryan T. Kennedy
"Aspiring full time anti-racist" is how senior Fairfax public defender lawyer Bryan T. Kennedy describes himself on his Twitter page. In this episode of Beat the Prosecution, Bryan joins Fairfax criminal a...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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58:54
Defending in criminal court by keeping one's eyes on the prize- Plowshares & Catholic Worker activist Mark Colville
Fairfax criminal and DWI lawyer Jonathan Katz heard Abbie Hoffman's lawyer Gerald Lefcourt speak in 1991 about how Abbie had asked Gerry to keep Hoffman out of jail so that he could keep pursuing his agend...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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1:05:22
Judge David L. Lewis (Ret.)- Winning by throwing one's full self and humor into the fight
When Fairfax criminal defense / DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz attended his first National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers meeting, he was wowed by a talk by New York attorney
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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1:01:49
Harmonizing criminal defendants' imbalanced situations- Venerable Thubten Chodron
Fairfax criminal defense lawyer and DUI attorney Jonathan Katz has been inspired for years by the great and to-the-point online dharma talks and guided meditations by Venerable
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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58:23
Criminal defense wizard Lisa Monet Wayne- Winning through powerful trial advocacy
There are heroes, and then there are heroes. Lisa Monet Wayne is one of Fairfax criminal / Virgin...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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57:12
Winning by mindfully empowering ourselves in the face of racism and all other hurdles- Law professor & author Rhonda Magee
Fairfax criminal defense and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz was floored when he met law professor, mindfulness teacher, and teacher on overcoming racial injustice Rhonda Magee, at the 2015 Mindful Leader...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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51:53
Conscious Leader Deb Katz- Winning without negative reactivity
In 2015, Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz finished court earlier than expected, and beelined to the Mindful Leadership conference in Crystal City, Virginia, in part to meet speaker Roshi Joan Halifax. Snag...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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59:23
Defending activists who broadcast their actions- Activists' lawyer Mark Goldstone
Criminal defense usually includes keeping the burden with the prosecution to attempt to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. That approach can be turned upside down with activists who broadcast their actions loudly and clearly. Fairfax c...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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1:03:03
Winning at zero and with personal responsibility- Kamaile Rafaelovich on Self Identity Through Ho'oponopono
Reaching and being in a state of zero is vital for Fairfax, Northern Virginia criminal defense and DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz. Jon Katz has learned and applies this approach of zero through taijiquan, mindfu...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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1:00:34