Jack Hitt
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849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so you can imagine the public is permitted to come.
And so the place is packed.
Standard, you know, defense of the writs.
A guy with a fabulous Dickensian name, Oxenbridge Thatcher.
But he makes this very tidy argument about the Reds, you know, citing precedent and so on.
Now, I just got to try to describe James Otis to you.
And he was sort of known as a really hot shot kind of badass lawyer.
He defended pirates in Nova Scotia.
There were some young guys that went rioting on Guy Fawkes Day.
He took their case, you know.
And his friends had a nickname for him.
He was called Furio.
Oh, wow.
Who at the time had just been appointed by the governor.
And the man he had passed over for this job, that the governor had passed over and given to Hutchinson, was James Otis's father.
So it's no secret these two don't like each other.
But he he quit the job and dramatically offered to represent the merchants for free.
Oh, now you can say, you know, he did this for principle or he did this because he's still steamed about his old man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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