Ira Glass

And when I saw it, I was like, oh, she put that on because Jesse Jackson just died.

We just got the news he died that morning.

So it's a shirt honoring protesters.

And the judge is like, we've been talking about peaceful protest for 20 minutes.

And you're wearing a shirt with peaceful protesters on it.

And the jurors can't unsee that.

You can't use your clothing to influence the jury.

He says that shirt has a politically charged message.

It's as if the prosecutor were wearing ice friendly pins or a shirt with Donald Trump on it, riding an eagle, flying an ice flag.

I'm sure the defense would go ballistic if that happened.

This is why in England they wear black robes and wigs.

I don't think this can be corrected by any type of instruction to the jury.

And so I have no choice but to declare a mistrial.

Everyone is like, what?

Because this is a crazy turn of events.

That's like a nuclear bomb to just drop the entire trial and start it over because of this woman's shirt.

Wait, and what do people do?

Well, everyone's just surprised.

Like, everybody is stunned.

And the judge is kind of like, I'm going to see what all the attorneys think about this.