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Episode 128: Uganda Part Three JUSTICE – Transcript

by Gladys Oroma

  • February 6, 2018

HOST: Today, we present part three of our series Uganda, about the thousands of children who had been abducted and held captive by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Throughout the series, we follow the…

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Episode 127: Uganda Part 2 ESCAPE – Transcript

by Gladys Oroma

  • January 23, 2018

HOST: This is Life of the Law. I’m Nancy Mullane, Executive Producer, and as you know from our last episode, part one of our series on Uganda, we are leaving our comfort zone of the…

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Episode 126: Uganda Part 1 ABDUCTED – Transcript

by Gladys Oroma

  • January 10, 2018

    HOST For the last year, we have been working behind the scenes with a team to produce the story you’re going to hear today, the first part of a three-part series. This series…

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Episode 112: Government Ghost – Transcript

by Megan Marelli

  • November 14, 2017

HOST This is Life of the Law, I’m Nancy Mullane. 2017 has been a terribly rough year for thousands of people… There’ve been fires in Northern California and hurricanes and floods in Texas and Puerto…

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Episode 117: Gift and Curse of Music – Transcript

by Ian Coss

  • September 5, 2017

HOST: One of the basic jobs of every government is to protect property rights. So if you own a piece of land, or you build a house – no one can just come and take…

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Episode 115: Prosecuting Discretion – Transcript

by Marylee Williams

  • August 8, 2017

HOST INTRO: The word law has its roots in old English. It basically means to regulate and it basically has the same root meaning today. When we say law, we share this idea that we’re…

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Episode 109: Unequal Protection – Part 2: Transcript

by Sarah Marshall

  • May 23, 2017

HOST INTRO: Last time on Life of the Law we presented Unequal Protection – Part 1, the story of Warren McCleskey’s appeal to the US Supreme Court that his sentence of death had been prejudiced…

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Episode 108: Unequal Protection: Part 1 – Transcript

by Sarah Marshall

  • May 3, 2017

HOST INTRO: America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black man on Georgia’s death row, took proof to the US…

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Episode 106: Mother and Son – Transcript

by Nancy Mullane

  • April 5, 2017

HOST INTRO: Prison is a walled off, secret world, where inmates and officers live a sort of altered reality. For the past 10 years I’ve been reporting on the people inside San Quentin State Prison…

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Episode 104: Heroin Town – Transcript

by Sam Fenn

  • March 8, 2017

HOST INTRO: Heroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a legal alternative, such as methadone. But methadone treatment doesn’t always…

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