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At the Day 9 sentencing, Caleb Flynn denied killing Ashley Flynn, her family answered with forgiveness and a demand for the maximum, and Judge Pratt chose life without parole over the parole-eligible terms Ohio allows.
Read →Day 3 of the uncle on trial in Paitin Fields' death: the 2017 investigation takes the stand, the sister testifies off the air, and the crime scene lieutenant takes a second look.
Read →Day 12 of the Frostproof Massacre trial: the jury that convicted Tony "TJ" Wiggins watched an edited mitigation video of people the State never got to question, then heard the State's only rebuttal witness, a neuropsychologist who met him once for about 30 minutes and ran no tests of his own.
Read →Day 2 of the uncle on trial in Paitin Fields' death: his mother and stepfather, called by the State, say he tried to save her, and the State asks its own witness if he did it.
Read →Day 1 of the uncle on trial in Paitin Fields' death: the State promised re-tested DNA, the defense said nothing has changed since 2017, and seven medical witnesses answered everything but who.
Read →Day 11 of the Frostproof Massacre trial: the jury that convicted Tony "TJ" Wiggins heard three families, then two defense doctors who never reviewed the record of the crime, while the defense's 47-minute mitigation video sat on the bench without a ruling.
Read →A judge gave Carter Eslick the maximum year in jail and a way to earn most of it back one anti-hazing talk at a time, then said on the record that he was not the only one responsible for Colin Martinez's death.
Read →Day 10 of the Frostproof Massacre trial: the judge read the law, the jury took seven questions for judging every witness into a room with one alternate left between it and a mistrial, and about four hours later the verdict was in. What the charge said, and the one road to a murder verdict it left open.
Read →Twenty-five days after the jury said it could not agree, Lindsay Clancy was back in court: three motions argued, none decided, the holdout juror's note still sealed, and no date for a second trial.
Read →A Miami County jury found Caleb Flynn guilty of aggravated murder and all eight other counts after closings in which the prosecutor raised a polygraph in rebuttal and nobody objected.
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One Decision Changes Everything
A CPA's life is destroyed after a tragic accident. But was the process that convicted him actually just?
Dave Schrader had everything. A successful practice. A family who loved him. Then came the party, the dark country road, and the split-second choice that would cost a sixteen-year-old boy his life. What follows isn't just a story about guilt or punishment. It's a story about what happens when a man enters a system designed to produce outcomes, not fairness.
Justice isn't an outcome. Justice is a process.
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I'm not a lawyer. I'm trained differently.
At age 12, I watched my father get indicted. I sat in the courtroom audience. I reviewed his files. I got an education no law school provides. I became a criminal defendant's family member facing the possibility of losing everything.
My father, Steven M. Askin, was a renowned West Virginia criminal defense attorney for 23 years. He was prosecuted twice by the system he challenged. First for protecting attorney-client privilege. Later for teaching people their constitutional rights from a coffee shop.
"The system only works if we force it to work. If we watch. If we question. If we refuse to let them operate in darkness."
Justice Is A Process continues his legacy. We cover trials not to entertain, but to educate. To teach people how the system really works. To be the watchdog the justice system needs.
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1948 — 2024
Steven M. Askin was a West Virginia criminal defense attorney for 23 years. He wasn't just a lawyer. He was a fighter who believed that constitutional rights belong to everyone, not just those who can afford them.
In 1994, the federal government came for him. He refused to violate attorney-client privilege, even when a judge ordered him to testify. He went to prison for seven months. The West Virginia Supreme Court disbarred him in 1998.
But he didn't stop. He rebuilt. He became a street lawyer, working from coffee shops in Martinsburg, helping people the system abandoned. People who couldn't afford lawyers. People fighting Pro Se against a machine designed to crush them. He taught them the law. He showed them how to stand up for their rights. He did it for free, or for whatever they could afford.
In 2009, on the morning he was supposed to get his law license back, he was indicted on 11 counts of unauthorized practice of law. For helping people from a coffee shop. For teaching them their constitutional rights. The prosecutor said she feared he would "disrupt the legal system."
She was right to be afraid. His mission lives on.
"The system only works if we force it to work. If we watch. If we question. If we refuse to let them operate in darkness."
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