- 30 minutes 23 seconds83: The Civil War Killings
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Can a Salvadoran Civil War criminal in the 1980s be sued for money damages in a Virginia courtroom in 2026? The brother of a Dutch journalist he ambushed and executed is ready to find out.
PLUS a bonus case!: 73-Year-Old Treasure Hunter Released After Decade in Prison for Not Sharing Booty. (A new addition to Reb's list of favorite cases we've ever covered on Rebuttal.)
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00:00 - Background
01:25 - Kuiper v. Mario A. Reyes Mena (4th Cir. July 8, 2026)
23:50 - United States v. Tommy Thompson (D. Ohio March 14, 2026)
32:16 - Reb's Rebuttal
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6 August 2026, 9:00 am - 44 minutes 7 seconds82: The Polygamist Ninja Burglars (and more legal chaos)
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) This is our fifth **Reb's Round-Up** episode—A rapid-fire (or as rapid as Reb can make it) list of cases that deserve to be included in the Rebuttal Podcast universe but are too short to devote a full episode to.
For this Round-Up, Reb gives you *9 bonus cases* to sneak into a group chat or two, including:
- A nun prosecuted;
- A bouncy castle kingpin;
- An amputated limb battle;
- A Samurai sword against home invader ninjas;
- A priest with a bite;
And more...
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04:32 - Case 2
07:42 - Case 3
12:44 - Case 4
18:36 - Case 5
25:23 - Case 6
30:05 - Case 7
36:46 - Case 8
40:23 - Case 9
45:03 - Reb's Rebuttal
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31 July 2026, 7:30 am - 45 minutes 52 seconds81: "Good" Alibis Don't Exist
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Is an alibi defense the key to the jailhouse door, or a noose around an innocent defendant's neck?
Eric Morgan had 11 alibi witnesses to establish that he was at a two-day long sports competition—far away from the location of the crime he was accused of—supported by credit card receipts for his travel, meals, and purchases on the trip. Yet the prosecutor successfully argued that the witnesses were liars or mistaken. Morgan served 3 years in prison before DNA evidence exonerated him.
Reb pokes holes in our assumptions about seemingly "good" alibis. Find out why some lawyers say never presenting an alibi is better than having one at all. ("An alibi can only be one of two things: perfect or bad.")
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RESOURCES:
- The (Un)reliability of Alibi Corroborators: Failure to Recognize Faces of Briefly Encountered Strangers Puts Innocent Suspects at Risk (2016) - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27757984/
- Memory Errors in Alibi Generation: How an Alibi Can Turn Against Us (2017) - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bsl.2273
- Wendy P. Heath, et al., "But I Wasn't There!" The Alibis of DNA Exonerees (2021) - https://wclawr.org/index.php/wclr/article/view/52/87
- David Crump, Alibi (2025) https://mississippilawjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/94MissLJ411.pdf
- Lisa Steele, Alibi Defenses: Millhouse or Key to the Jailhouse Door? (2021) https://www.publiccounsel.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Steele-March-16.pdf
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02:10 - WHY DO LAWYERS HATE THEM?
11:53 - MISTAKES = LIES.
19:45 - JURIES ARE THE WORST.
25:21 - PROSECUTORS DON'T HELP.
29:37 - ALIBIS HURT YOUR CASE.
43:19 - IN CONCLUSION...
43:50 - Reb's Rebuttal (IMPORTANT!)
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23 July 2026, 8:06 am - 23 minutes 38 seconds80: The Divorce Lawyer's Bomb Threats
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) One Ohio divorce lawyer called in bomb threats to courthouses to delay trials and hearings he wasn’t ready for, and it was all (unhinged, unethical, insane) fun and games until a body turned up outside of his law office.
Reb (next to sleepy co-host DUI) tries to keep her heavy sighs to a minimum in Ohio v. Moore (2025) *and* adds in a special case at the end to remind you of a very important lesson. (Not legal advice, of course. Just uncommon sense.)
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00:00 - Case Begins 00:28 - Ohio v. Moore (2025) 07:50 - THE FACTS 10:36 - THE ESTRANGED HUSBAND 16:46 - PROSECUTION'S RESPONSE 18:45 - Bonus Case! (YIKES) 24:04 - Reb's Rebuttal
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16 July 2026, 8:00 am - 43 minutes 26 seconds79: The Safari From Hell
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) What do a killer safari mistress, a coroner's skull, and one defrauding vet have in common? All three are in court opinions released in June 2026.
Reb opens another of this year’s can of worms for you in United States v. Milliron (10th Cir. 2026), Betts v. Boone County (7th Cir. 2026), and New York v. Parkhill-Brown (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty. 2026).
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- CASE 1 FULL OPINION [United States v. Milliron (10th Cir. 2026)]: https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinion/23-1217
- CASE 2 FULL OPINION [Betts v. Boone County (7th Cir. 2026)]: https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/25-1685/25-1685-2026-06-15.pdf?ts=1781551855
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17:23 - CASE #1 cont.
30:46 - CASE #2 **CONTENT WARNING**
36:58 - CASE #3
42:34 - Reb's Rebuttal
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9 July 2026, 7:06 am - 29 minutes 47 seconds78: The Man Who Scared a Woman to Death
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) On the morning of September 26, 2008, Larry Whitfield and Quanterrious McCoy—armed with a .357 handgun and an AK–47 assault rifle—entered the front door of the Fort Financial Credit Union in Gastonia, North Carolina. Only one of these would-be bank robbers would be sentenced to life in prison for it.
Reb teaches you how not to rob a bank (but if you do, ask if any bystanders have high blood pressure). This is United States v. Whitfield (2015).
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REPORT: FELONY MURDER—An On-Ramp for Extreme Sentencing (updated May 2024): https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2024/05/Felony-Murder-An-On-Ramp-for-Extreme-Sentencing.pdf
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01:11 - CASE BEGINS.
01:30 - THE FACTS.
06:38 - FIRST DEGREE MURDER?!
12:33 - REAL CASES: FELONY MURDER PRISONERS.
19:37 - SO, THIS POLICY IS A NIGHTMARE?
24:11 - LARRY’S LIFE SENTENCE (SIKE?).
25:44 - Did Mary Parnell "accompany" Larry Whitfield?
27:19 - U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION.
31:37 - Reb's Rebuttal
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18 June 2026, 7:06 am - 1 hour 3 minutes77: America Has A Guilty Plea Problem
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Today, 98% of all federal criminal cases are resolved with a guilty plea. Why?
"Half a loaf is better than none. . . . When we have a weak case for any reason, we'll reduce to almost anything rather than lose."
In modern America, "beyond a reasonable doubt" as determined by a jury has largely been replaced by the discretion of prosecutors to punish defendants for exercising their constitutional right to a trial by jury. So much so, defendants in pretrial detention are agreeing to plea "bargains" at a rate so high, it’s difficult to deny the obvious: Innocence is irrelevant.
Reb is joined by Hannah Bogen, a Federal Public Defender in the Office of the FPD for the Central District of California, the largest public defense office in the federal system. Hannah shares her firsthand experience with indigent defense, pretrial detention, plea bargaining, and sentencing policy—a rare glimpse into the real lives of her clients in the federal criminal system, and public defenders' enduring fight for dignity and mercy for the people whom society often forgets...Until it happens to you.
**DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions discussed in this episode are personal to Hannah and Reb and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Office of the Federal Public Defender.**
A huge thank you to Hannah Bogen for her time and unforgettable insight for this episode, and a gracious nod to the Offices of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and around the country. Their attorneys, staff, and investigators are selfless bright sparks in a system shrouded by darkness.
- See: L.A. public defenders are on a win streak as Trump's Justice Department charges activists , L.A. Times (Feb. 6, 2026) --> Access without a subscription here
- See also: More than 10,000 lawyers have left the Trump Administration leaving multiple agencies understaffed, report says, Independent (May 31, 2026)
Helpful Resources, Information, Statistics:
- Mass Incarceration—The Whole Pie (Prison Policy Initiative 2026)
- Mass Incarceration Trends (The Sentencing Project 2026)
- 1 in 3 Americans has a criminal record (Center for American Progress 2022)
- The Hidden Law of Plea Bargaining (2018) ("It continues to be driven not by law but by power—the vast, unregulated power of prosecutors")
- The Unconstitutionality of Modern Plea Bargaining: Curbing Prosecutorial Vindictiveness, 3 Prin.L.J. 2 (2024)
- Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022 (Pew Research 2023)
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: How US Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants To Plead Guilty (2013)
- In The Shadows: A Review of the Research on Plea Bargaining (Vera Institute 2020)
- Detaining the Poor: How money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time (Prison Policy Initiative 2016)
- Arrest, Release, Repeat: Who is jailed, how often, and why (Prison Policy Initiative 2024)
- Report: How Mandatory Minimums Perpetuate Mass Incarceration and What To Do About It (2024)
- Correcting the Record: Fentanyl Myths & Misinformation (2025)
- We Can't Go Cold Turkey: Why Suppressing Drug Markets Endangers Society (2018)
- Addicted to punishment: Jails and prisons punish drug use far more than they treat it (Prison Policy Initiative 2024)
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00:00 - How America convicts the innocent
04:14 - WELCOME! Hannah Bogen, Federal Public Defender
05:26 - A mantra for public defenders
06:06 - **DISCLAIMER**
06:22 - Typical crimes Hannah sees in federal court
07:40 - WHAT DO FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDERS DO?
10:35 - "We're not gonna get there in time..."
12:46 - Favorite thing a client has said to you
16:05 - REPRESENTING VICTIMS IN THE SYSTEM
19:25 - "Prosecutor won't even make eye contact"
20:42 - ARRESTED IN PAJAMAS: Now what?
26:22 - Poverty and prison
29:30 - Trump's new prosecution policies
34:25 - "THE PURPOSE IS CRUELTY"
36:13 - Drugs and Mandatory Minimums
41:15 - THE PROBLEM WITH PLEA "BARGAINS"
45:38 - Plead or Suffer (Trial Penalty)
49:30 - 10,000 attorneys leave Trump's DOJ since 2025
53:25 - Former FPD Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!
55:44 - BEST DAYS ON THE JOB
1:00:53 - Final thoughts for Rebuttal listeners
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5 June 2026, 7:13 am - 29 minutes 6 seconds76: The Bloody Telephone Booth (Legal Urban Legends pt. 2)
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech describing this plaintiff as "outrageous," "absurd," and "loony". His name was Charles Bigbee, and his leg had been torn from his body.
This is Bigbee v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, Co., et al. (1983)—the story of a drunk woman, a telephone booth, and the most famous "frivolous" lawsuit of the 1980s.
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00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Case Begins
01:02 - THE INCIDENT (1974)
05:35 - Bigbee's Bills
09:02 - REAGAN'S SPEECH (AND VENDETTA) (1986)
15:52 - THE LAWSUIT & CLAIMS
20:19 - CA Supreme Court & Chief Justice Rose Bird (1983)
22:29 - SETTLEMENT & AFTERMATH
25:53 - WHAT HAPPENED TO CHARLES BIGBEE?
29:33 - Reb's Rebuttal
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28 May 2026, 8:00 am - 40 minutes 2 seconds75: The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case (Legal Urban Legends pt. 1)
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) “I am astonished how successful these urban legends have been in influencing policy. . . .The people that created these stories did so with remarkable skill.”
The Grazinski case, the Carson case, and the Walton case, to name a few. They've all been cited as true by a wide range of major media outlets, including CNN and U.S. News & World Report.
There's just one problem: These cases don't exist. And neither do the people in them. No, AI didn't hallucinate them. Big corporations did...
...For more than 30 years, Stella Liebeck's lawsuit has been debated on talk shows, parodied in television commercials, mentioned in congressional debates, and is firmly lodged in the public consciousness. In U.S. popular culture, her case has come to symbolize greedy plaintiffs and lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits and win hugely excessive sums in a broken legal system.And that was exactly what the big corporations, and their powerful lobbyists, wanted you to think.
Reb spills all of the real, true, and graphic details of Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants (1994).
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00:00 - Intro / CONTENT WARNING.
00:15 - LEGAL URBAN LEGENDS.
02:43 - THE BAD GUYS AND YOU.
06:16 - Tort Law vs. Tort "Reform"
08:42 - CASE BEGINS: The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case
09:59 - THE INCIDENT.
12:03 - INJURIES AND PERMANENT DISFIGUREMENT.
14:21 - STELLA'S LETTERS TO MCDONALD'S.
19:17 - THE TRIAL: What the jury heard + Transcripts
32:27 - THE VERDICT.
37:25 - MCDONALD'S LEARNS NOTHING.
38:10 - JUSTICE FOR STELLA.
38:32 - Reb's Rebuttal
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22 May 2026, 8:42 am - 40 minutes 38 seconds74: 14 Cases That Shouldn't Be Real (They Are)
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) This is our fourth **Reb's Round-Up** episode—A rapid-fire (or as rapid as Reb can make it) list of cases that deserve to be included in the Rebuttal Podcast universe but are too short to devote a full episode to.
For this Round-Up, Reb gives you *14 bonus cases* for you to tell unsuspecting friends and strangers all about, including:
- Drones delivering packages to prison;
- An ex-lawyer in a purple G-string hallucinating a Giant Panda;
- A bank robbery research project;
- A $517,000 rock, paper, scissors game;
- A trip to the morgue and back to the ER;
- A (former) judge banned from a mall for being a creep;
- An update on the infamous bee assault case;
And more...
Enjoy!
LINKS & CASE NAMES
- Case #1: The Giant Panda Defense
- Case #2: Moore v. Cecil, et al. (11th Cir. 2026)
- Case #3: United States v. Stanley (2005)
- Case #4: Wright v. Shotgun Willie's (2022)
- Case #5: Wilson v. Midland County Texas, et al. (5th Cir. 2026)
- Case #6: United States v. Petro (10th Cir. 2026)
- Case #7: Denison v. Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, Inc. (Miss. 2026)
- Case #8: United States v. Blair (11th Cir. 2026)
- Case #9: United States v. Weatherspoon (8th Cir. 2026)
- Case #10: Neisser v. Pravec (2008) (Czech Republic)
- Case #11: United States v. Russell (4th Cir. 2026)
- Case #12: Commonwealth of Mass. v. Woods (2026) (and YouTube video of bee "attack")
- Case #13: Operation Bear Claw
- Case #14: Hooper c. Primeau (2017) (Quebéc's Court of Appeal)
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00:00 - Intro
00:25 - CASE #1: The Giant Panda Defense
03:33 - CASE #2: The Creepy Judge
04:50 - CASE #3: Robbing Banks For Research
06:20 - CASE #4: Two Bodies at the Strip Club
09:20 - CASE #5: "Utterly Bonkers," Says Court
10:11 - CASE #6: Naked and Acquitted
11:10 - CASE #7: Donation Gone Wrong
16:25 - CASE #8: Tan Lines & Can Lines
20:36 - CASE #9: Prison Phone Tag
21:24 - CASE #10: Your Body Scratched My Bumper
23:53 - CASE #11: Cat Blamed For Crime
25:11 - CASE #12: (UPDATE!) Beekeeper Sentenced!
28:41 - CASE #13: Operation Bearclaw
31:09 - CASE #14: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Throuple, $517,000
40:03 - Reb's Rebuttal
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14 May 2026, 7:18 am - 47 minutes 16 seconds73: The Thief and The Psych Ward
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) "By all appearances, a man who went by William Woods had turned his life around. . . .There was just one problem: Although William Woods is a real person, the man is not that person." –Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Reb visits a really messed up hot dog cart from 1988 and a saga that'll make you question everybody's last name. Just to be sure.
This is United States v. Keirans (8th Cir. 2026).
Enjoy.
SOURCES:
- 8th Circuit Opinion (April 23, 2026): https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/04/251339P.pdf
- University of Iowa article: https://stories.uiowa.edu/uipd-detective-unravels-decades-long-identity-scheme
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00:00 - Intro
00:31 - CASE BEGINS.
03:38 - THE FIRST ARREST.
05:17 - FOUR YEARS LATER...
07:40 - (REB RANTS) 23andMe + Prosecutor budgets
12:00 - BACK TO THE CASE.
13:13 - "WILLIAM WOODS".
14:15 - "CALIFORNIA BILL".
16:56 - Campus police are useful for once?!
17:10 - (REB RANTS) Your husband is a psychopath. Act like it.
19:55 - (REB RANTS) You did a good deed. Stop bragging.
21:23 - "WHO IS YOUR SON?"
24:34 - WHO IS MATTHEW KEIRANS?
28:13 - Identity theft statistics.
29:56 - THE SECOND ARREST.
35:16 - the District Attorney said WHAT?!?!??!?!
37:04 - THE CHARGES + LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE.
39:36 - THE APPEAL & OUTCOME (April 2026).
45:30 - REB'S REBUTTAL.
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