Beth Karas

The case was there in court. There wasn't going to be any more investigation. It was investigated. Sometimes I do some digging around, but I was on the air, you know, morning to night. There wasn't a lot of time to do my own investigation beyond what was being presented in court. When I left Court TV, because it actually went off to air, it came back under new management.

The case was there in court. There wasn't going to be any more investigation. It was investigated. Sometimes I do some digging around, but I was on the air, you know, morning to night. There wasn't a lot of time to do my own investigation beyond what was being presented in court. When I left Court TV, because it actually went off to air, it came back under new management.

The case was there in court. There wasn't going to be any more investigation. It was investigated. Sometimes I do some digging around, but I was on the air, you know, morning to night. There wasn't a lot of time to do my own investigation beyond what was being presented in court. When I left Court TV, because it actually went off to air, it came back under new management.

It's a little different today, but it's still a Court TV channel. Then I started doing my own digging. People would come to me with issues, and I would start doing what I maybe would do as a prosecutor, but the problem is, when you're a civilian investigator, you don't have the tools that a police officer or prosecutor have. You can't subpoena somebody. You can't get the records you want.

It's a little different today, but it's still a Court TV channel. Then I started doing my own digging. People would come to me with issues, and I would start doing what I maybe would do as a prosecutor, but the problem is, when you're a civilian investigator, you don't have the tools that a police officer or prosecutor have. You can't subpoena somebody. You can't get the records you want.

It's a little different today, but it's still a Court TV channel. Then I started doing my own digging. People would come to me with issues, and I would start doing what I maybe would do as a prosecutor, but the problem is, when you're a civilian investigator, you don't have the tools that a police officer or prosecutor have. You can't subpoena somebody. You can't get the records you want.

You can't get phone records unless maybe a lawyer in a case will give it to you or it's been introduced as evidence in a trial so now you can have it, maybe in a civil case and now you can look at it, maybe there's a criminal matter it's relevant to. So your hands are a little bit tied compared to what you can do as a public servant with police powers, right?

You can't get phone records unless maybe a lawyer in a case will give it to you or it's been introduced as evidence in a trial so now you can have it, maybe in a civil case and now you can look at it, maybe there's a criminal matter it's relevant to. So your hands are a little bit tied compared to what you can do as a public servant with police powers, right?

You can't get phone records unless maybe a lawyer in a case will give it to you or it's been introduced as evidence in a trial so now you can have it, maybe in a civil case and now you can look at it, maybe there's a criminal matter it's relevant to. So your hands are a little bit tied compared to what you can do as a public servant with police powers, right?

to put somebody in a grand jury or get a subpoena. But still, I mean, there are great investigative journalists who do some great work.

to put somebody in a grand jury or get a subpoena. But still, I mean, there are great investigative journalists who do some great work.

to put somebody in a grand jury or get a subpoena. But still, I mean, there are great investigative journalists who do some great work.

So it's not impossible. Do you always recommend for investigative journalists to have a law background? Or do you mean like, you know, the people on the internet that are looking into cases?

So it's not impossible. Do you always recommend for investigative journalists to have a law background? Or do you mean like, you know, the people on the internet that are looking into cases?

So it's not impossible. Do you always recommend for investigative journalists to have a law background? Or do you mean like, you know, the people on the internet that are looking into cases?

So here's what I used to always say when I was at Court TV, that if you're going to be on a network that holds itself out as the place to go to watch trials and get analysis, you really should have people telling you about the process who have been there in the trenches. I firmly believe that.

So here's what I used to always say when I was at Court TV, that if you're going to be on a network that holds itself out as the place to go to watch trials and get analysis, you really should have people telling you about the process who have been there in the trenches. I firmly believe that.

So here's what I used to always say when I was at Court TV, that if you're going to be on a network that holds itself out as the place to go to watch trials and get analysis, you really should have people telling you about the process who have been there in the trenches. I firmly believe that.

It's not really a rule that's followed, but back in the day in the early or the first Court TV, it was followed. You want somebody telling you because they've been there. Oh, I remember I tried a case once. I remember a judge did this to me. You can draw on your memory. But there are plenty of great journalists, great reporters who have covered trials who don't have that background.

It's not really a rule that's followed, but back in the day in the early or the first Court TV, it was followed. You want somebody telling you because they've been there. Oh, I remember I tried a case once. I remember a judge did this to me. You can draw on your memory. But there are plenty of great journalists, great reporters who have covered trials who don't have that background.