In the fifth episode of Aider & Abettor, Avi and Sajid discuss the challenge of getting a representative jury and one proposal (California Senate Bill 576) to collect more data about the jury selection process.  The text of the bill is available online at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB576

In the deep dive, they talk about the music that gets them going during trial.  The discussion is broken up into five stages: setting the ground rules, jury selection, opening statement, cross examination, and closing argument.  

In the "Things" segment, Avi recounts a confrontation with a bathroom line-cutter.  Sajid shares his thoughts about public reactions to the sentence in a South Carolina hate crime case and a report on "Pay-to-Stay" jails.  Sajid blogged about these subjects at http://thesajidakhan.tumblr.com/

Our intro is by @leerosevere (https://soundcloud.com/happypuppyrecords).  Our transitions and outro are by @omniboi.

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Public Defenders Sajid Khan and Avi Singh podcast on the criminal system on Aider and Abettor.  

The show includes discussions about the mismatch between the criminal system's purported values and actual function.  

Sajid Khan is a public defender in San Jose, CA.  Sajid is a the author of Closing Arguments, a blog focused on criminal law and social justice.  His work is published by the National Association of Public Defense.  Sajid graduated from UC Berkeley and UC Hastings College of Law.

Avi Singh is a public defender in San Jose, CA.  Avi graduated from UC Davis and Harvard Law School.  He is on the Board of the Asian American Criminal Trial Lawyers' Association.  Avi coaches a high school mock trial team that competes in the Constitutional Rights Foundation program.

You can follow @thesajidkhan and @avanindar on Twitter.

Please send comments and suggestions to aiderandabettor@gmail.com.  You can also follow us on twitter @aiderandabettor.  Our website is https://medium.com/@aiderandabettor

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