James Forman Jr.

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Deep Cover · The Limits of Manifesting Success with James Forman, Jr. · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

these people are going to be harmed by your absence.

Because I think juries understand everyone has people who love them.

And everybody who goes to prison has somebody who's sad and hurt that they've gone to prison.

So that's not enough by itself.

You also have to have, as existed here...

a story that is both of trauma that helps you understand how it was that somebody could be put into this position where they would feel trapped and have no choice but to do the thing they did.

That's number one.

But also number two, which was also present here, is that that set of decisions is

is not the totality of who that person is.

And that to me is part of where his daughters would come in with a jury, which is that I think a jury is going to see them or a judge is going to see them and is going to think the person who raised these magnificent two children is

who are coming in here with all of their energy and their sympathy and their love, that person is not a career criminal.

That person is not a menace to society.

That person is not somebody who needs to live the rest of his life underground behind bars.

And so when you put all of those things together,

The good work that he did raising those children, the trauma that he and they overcame, the trap and the box and the cage that he felt he was in at that moment that he made the decision to do those robberies, plus then the ongoing harm that would be caused by them losing another parent.

They've already lost one.

That is a compelling example.

mitigation case.

Well, I will answer that question, but let me first say that classically in criminal law, there are these theories that justify punishment, right?

Deterrence is one of them, right?

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