James Forman Jr.
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
James Forman Jr.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that would mean that you'd be going to the state first likely to try to get a plea agreement in which the federal government agrees not to bring charges, charges that they could bring as part of this kind of global resolution.
And what you're saying is we want to resolve all of them in one plea agreement.
Like this one plea agreement is going to take care of everything.
Right.
I've been asking you this since you presented this case to me, and I don't know.
I know the judge was interested in this question.
Yeah, again, I never want to label... I don't want to label somebody substandard or incompetent from a distance without knowing all the ins and outs of practice.
But I can tell you that where I practiced...
And as I was a lawyer, I would never stand up and say, oh, we're going to enter the plea here.
We haven't worked out what's happening in state court, especially when you know that the exposure, the likely sentence in state court is going to be greater.
I would never enter a plea in federal court under those circumstances.
Yes.
Very few countries in the world elect their local prosecutors, but the United States is one.
Is that right?
Yes.
Huh.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, and it's one of the reasons why a lot of people suggest, have argued, and I agree, part of why our system became so punitive, especially in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, is that we had people running for office on the idea that, you know, I'm going to lock up more people than the other guy or girl, but mostly guy.
I'm going to lock up more people.
I'm going to...
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