Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI Lawyer
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://KatzJustice.com and at (703)-383-1100.
Episodes
113 episodes
Chade-Meng Tan- -- Google's Search Inside Yourself co-founder -- applying mindfulness and compassion
Chade-Meng Tan when a Google engineer was the company's Jolly Good Fellow (Which nobody can deny) . Meng decided one day on the then-small Google campus to promote world peace, which led to his su...
Sister Helen Prejean of Dead Man Walking- On handling her death chamber ordeal and beyond
Sister Helen Prejean -- author of Dead Man Walking -- (donate at sisterhelen.org/donate ) joins Fairfax...
Restorative justice leader sujatha baliga on pursuing real restorative justice.
Some remarkable people walk among us. One of them is sujatha baliga (spelling her name without capitalization), who greets people with "warm hellos." sujatha is a leader in restorative justice, a pra...
Mindfulness teacher Mirabai Bush on Ram Dass, Maharaji and more
In 1971, Mirabai Bush traveled to India, and found more than she bargained for. Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz would hear about Mirabai over the years, through...
Big Bang Theory scriptwriter Stephen Engel on developing the story, which trial lawyers must also do
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz was invigorated early on by entertaining others, including performing magic shows for children's birthday parties and performing musically, including with improvisation...
Korean monk Beopjeong Sunim's translator Matty Wegehaupt on accurately presenting the message and story
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows the power of a compellingly persuasive story. The elements of such a story can include setting a vivid scene, often with word pictures, a keen sense of the audien...
Negotiation skills apply to criminal defense and diplomacy- Abiodun Williams
Fairfax, Virginia, criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz first met international relations expert and five-book author Abiodun Williams when th...
Humanizing criminal defendants begins with fully listening to and knowing them.
This week’s podcast guest is Joseph Margulies, an accomplished civil rights litigator, author of three books and many online articles, and Cornell University professor. Joe was couns...
Boundary-moving storytelling is essential to persuasion- Danny Schnitzlein of Monster Who Ate My Peas
Storytelling is a key part of persuading in court. In this Beat the Prosecution episode, Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz interviews one of his favorite storytellers,
David Carradine & Kung Fu present great lessons for criminal defense lawyers. Hear Kung Fu chronicler Herbie J Pilato
Many times, Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jon Katz has quoted this great passage from the Kung Fu television pilot with David Carradine as a Shaolin priest (1972): “Perceive the way of natu...
Psychodrama is essential to persuading at trial. Listen to son of psychodrama's founder Jacob Moreno
Psychodrama plays a major role at the Trial Lawyers College that Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz attended for a full month in 1995. Psychodrama was founded by Jacob L Moreno and taught and pur...
Great criminal defense requires knowing the reality of the terrain. Bruckheim & Patel
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz's go-to lawyers for referrals for District of Columbia criminal defense are Michael Bruckheim and Sweta Patel at Bruckheim & Patel<...
Chanting and singing can propel your persuasive story forward- Chanter Nina Rao
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz last month joined several hundred attendees at the Boone, NC, Ram Dass mountain legacy retreat. The experience was wonderful, with people connecting at the heart and s...
The essence of the compassionate Baba Ram Dass- Raghu Markus
After attending a great mid-August mountain retreat celebrating Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) with several hundred people -- complete with kirtan with Krishna Das (lead singer of the precursor to Blue Oyst...
Devoting ourselves to true justice and criminal defendants - David Walsh-Little
When Fairfax criminal defense / DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz joined with Ramsey Clark in defending the Plowshares activists for their 2000 criminal jury trial for their
The greatest then-living trial lawyer Gerry Spence discussed by his students Shalev Ben-Avraham and Jon Katz
Fairfax, Virginia criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz's teacher Gerry Spence lived until 96 years, and transitioned from his body on August 13, 2025. Gerry has had ...
How to defend capital defendants and other vilified criminal defendants- Jerry Zerkin
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz started law school seeing the glass as more half empty than full when it came to protecting people's Constitutional rights and civil liberties. That...
How to apply martial art power to obtaining justice in court.
Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz daily practices the martial art of taijiquan / t'ai chi ch'uan Yang style short form, also known as Cheng Man Ch'ing (CMC) taijiquan form. This episode introduc...
Settling the case while ready for trial- Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz
Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz knows that acquittals are great and often exhilarating, but trials can also bring risks. On this Beat the Prosecution episode, Jon Katz talks on his own about t...
Demanding no government civil liberties violations- Lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai, defending Rümeysa Öztürk
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows that it is not radical to protest, but instead is among our rights under the Bill of Rights. As an undergraduate alum of Tufts University, Jon Katz opened his eye...
What does a conviction do to my ability to enter Canada? Immigration lawyer Marissa Feil
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows the importance of reducing not only conviction and sentencing risks in Virginia criminal court, but also to minimize adverse collateral consequences from court ou...
Keep the balance of powers in balance- Former Judge Hannah Dugan
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz strongly dissents from the Trump administration's revoking of the Biden administration's policy of rarely making immigration arrests at courthouses other than for essen...
Tibetan Buddhism expert Robert Thurman on storytelling and the joy of life
Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz derives tremendous inspiration in his courtroom work from teacher Robert Thurman, for his humor, caring realness, great storytelling ability, and certainly his ...
Attorney Carolyn Elefant's pushback for small law firms against Trump administration trespasses
Bethesda lawyer Carolyn Elefant is a trailblazing lawyer. Not being cut out to conform to law firm life, she decided thirty years ago to strike out on her own. For decades and counting...
Bachir Atallah & Celine Atallah on standing up against border patrol detention of an American citizen
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows that we are at the moment of truth for standing up to Donald Trump's onslaught against non-United States citizens, lawyers and law firms, and higher education. If...