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From the Vanderbilt Project on Prosecution Policy, True Bill Talk is about getting to the truth of criminal prosecution in America right now: what it is, how people experience it, and how prosecutors can better serve their communities.
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Jean Peters Baker on Politics, Threats, and Getting It Right (opens the original)
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This week I interviewed Jean Peters Baker, who served as the elected prosecutor of Jackson County (Kansas City), Missouri from 2011 to 2025. Jean grew up on a small Missouri farm with a father who was violent. The system of the 1970s did nothing to help Jean's family - that is why she became a prosecutor, and that experience gives her a unique insight into the complexities of domestic violence and the challenges in prosecuting those cases, all of which she is exceptionally forthright about in th
Can Conservatives Be Reformers? (opens the original)
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In this episode, we take on an assumption baked into most coverage of criminal justice: that reform is a left-of-center cause, and that any prosecutor with an "R" after their name must be pushing tough-on-crime policies. But that picture is incomplete. My guests are two people who don't fit the stereotype: Tim Barker, the Republican District Attorney of York County, Pennsylvania, and Frank Russo, a conservative advocate who serves as a senior advisor at CPAC's Nolan Center for Justice — where he
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