Watchdog coverage of American criminal trials. We cover them not to entertain, but to educate.
Justice Is A Process is an independent trial-coverage publication. We follow criminal trials across the United States and explain, in plain language, what actually happens inside a courtroom: the evidence, the arguments on both sides, and the constitutional protections that are supposed to hold the whole process together. Our work is published here on justiceisaprocess.com and on our YouTube channel, where our live broadcasts and full-day coverage reach an audience of more than ninety thousand subscribers.
The publication is founded and led by Steven M. Askin II. He is not a lawyer, and he says so plainly. He was trained differently. At the age of twelve he watched his father get indicted, sat in the courtroom audience, and read the case files. He grew up as the family member of a criminal defendant, learning firsthand what it means to face the possibility of losing everything.
His father, Steven M. Askin, was a renowned West Virginia criminal defense attorney for twenty-three years. He was prosecuted twice by the system he challenged: first for protecting attorney-client privilege, and later for teaching ordinary people their constitutional rights. Justice Is A Process continues his legacy.
"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."
We exist to teach the public how the justice system really works, and to be a watchdog on it. Every case we cover is treated as a lesson in due process. We report what the prosecution presented and what the defense argued, and we let the viewer weigh both. We do not decide guilt. That is the jury's job, and we hold the line on the presumption of innocence until a verdict is returned.
Our coverage is built on the public court record, not on rumor or reaction:
For each trial we produce day-by-day breakdowns of the testimony, full-length coverage of the court sessions, written background reports on the case and the people in it, and analysis of the legal questions the trial turns on. Our written background reports and case breakdowns on this site run from several hundred to several thousand words each and are researched from the public record.
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