Ira Glass

Right.

You know, bringing any prop with you to the courtroom and also about what you're wearing in the courtroom.

And this attorney I have just realized is wearing a shirt.

Yeah.

And indeed, this attorney is wearing a shirt, just wearing a blazer over it that I happened to see earlier in the bathroom.

So I saw it up close.

It's kind of checkered.

It's these little squares, you know, smaller than a cigarette packet.

Of civil rights leaders.

Martin Luther King is on there.

And it's kind of iconic images of the civil rights movement.

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.