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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast more What You Here

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weekday afternoons on the Drive. Julie
Grant has a license attorney and former prosecutors.

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She brings a blend of journalism,
experience and legal expertise to Court TV's

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newest show called Opening Statements with Julie
Grant, and it's weekdays between eight and

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nine Eastern Julie, what are we
going to see on Opening Statements? Hi?

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Lee, You're going to see you
all when it comes to what is

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going on in the world of true
crime and trials. And so, just

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like opening Statements at a trial get
the jury crimes for the evidence, we're

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getting our audience at Court TV Primes
for the day of Court TV Live.

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And so at nine am that typically
reports start all across America. Our cameras

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are in position ready to broadcast the
various trials. And so what we get

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to do in that special hour of
Opening Statements, we were that unique content

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that we aren't able to get to
during the day because we don't have time

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to do the deep dives. And
so we're gonna have special guests, leading

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voices and true crimes experts and everything
from forensics, medicines, law, you

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name it. We're going to invite
them on the show. Anybody who's a

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leading voice or authority in that world
of criminal justice and true crime, we

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want to hear from them. And
we're also going to invite on survivors witnesses.

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Want to hear people's stories and do
them justice by giving them time to

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do a deep dive. So it's
a unique show, very high energy lass

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of cold debating. We have a
social sidebar lead where we get our viewers

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involved. We ask them to sound
off, send this little videos of what

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they think of the cases. So
it's very interactive as well as informative and

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fun and fascinating. If you love
true crimes, well, I was going

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to say, true crime seems to
have really exploded in the last oh,

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I guess five years on our own
iHeartRadio app more there most of the more

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popular podcast our true crime podcast,
You're rightly and it's funny and a lot

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of those podcasters you know, of
course you're true crime offictionatos themselves. They

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love Court TV and so they love
coming on and being guests. And it's

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great because we get to share a
lot of information and a lot of times

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that they've done and you meet interview
or something, they want it to be

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spotlighted, and so go say,
hey, would love to come on your

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show, and you know, we've
put it out there on Court TV.

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And then a lot of them will
then ask us in turn, hey we

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come on the podcast and talk because
you know, we're looking at cases differently,

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right as legal analysts, and I
like to say, we're kind of

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like ESPN for trials. We're going
to do the play by play in the

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color commentary, explain things and also
weigh in with opinion, you know,

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root and backs and law, and
so it's cool to talk to those podcasters

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and have those it's almost like your
friendships forming. Really some of them you

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have become friends of mine, and
it's cool. It's cool to meet new

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people technology as you know, I
mean, of course, you know with

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your showy and other work you do
in broadcasting. I mean it's it's like

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the sky's the let that nowadays with
who you can talk to people all around

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the world at any time, right, Yeah. Opening Statements with Julie Grants.

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It's week days at eights Eastern on
Court TV, and Julie Grant is

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with us what is it about true
crime? Is it? Is it all

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amateur sleuthing? You know. It's
funny, ily, I never realized until

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I really got into my hosting work
at Court TV, just how many people

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really believe they're detectives, you know. And that's cool. I mean,

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like I love it. You know, everybody watching at home wants to solve

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the case and so and I feel
like, hey, you know, the

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more guys the better, right You
know, when when I was a prosecutor,

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I would see things, you know, from that lens, right that

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that was my lens through which I
would look at things, and I would

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you know, you talk to your
detectives as the experts. You're relying on

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them, maybe your lab analyst,
everybody involved in your case. And then

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you go into the world of true
crime, as you said, which has

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exploded and it's having such a moment
right now. If you hear about all

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these people that they're at home and
they just love listening and want to figure

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it out, and some of them
get hung up on really interesting details.

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And I feel like the more eyes
are better, because sometimes you can look

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at something in a vacuum, you
know, if you're an investigator, it

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can be easy to maybe close yourself
off to decide that isn't favorable, you

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know, if you really believe strongly
in something, and so when you have

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more objective eyes, I think it's
fantastic if people want to be detective.

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When I go to Crime Cut,
it's funny. I'm going there a couple

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of days and they sild these shirts. The last year. I thought everybody

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was walking around in them. They
said, I'm basically a detective, and

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I think that's a lot of the
true crimes fields feel that they are court

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TVs. Julie Grant's opening statements is
hurt show and Julie. I also think

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it has a lot to do with
some of these true crime stories are far

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more bizarre and intriguing and involved than
anything that could be written down from any

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of the I don't want to slam
the writer, the television writers, but

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a lot of times these stories are
beyond anything they could come up with.

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Surely, you're spot on. Sometimes
truth is really stranger than fiction. And

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when you hear these cases, you
know, it's almost like, you know,

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it's funny. I always say this. My great uncle, he was

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a sheriff's deputy, and you know
he passed away long before I ever worked

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in the same courthouse as a prosecutor, but I knew some of the deputies

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that were younger that worked with him, and they used to sail Your uncle

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Art used to say, boy,
you think you've seen it all today,

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just come to work tomorrow. You're
getting to see something even a while then.

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And and it's very true. Some
of it is just beyond comprehension.

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Some of it it's really it's hard
to wrap your mind around. I mean,

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we've thought so many different cases right
now that are on the docket that

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we're watching, and and every time
it's like, you've got to be kidding,

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You've got to be kidding me.
Somebody's actually accused of doing this?

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Who does this? And then you
go through a trial and you find out,

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Wow, this person actually did be
unthinkable. So it really kind of

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rocks your world sometimes when you hear
about some of the allegations it does.

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It can be kind of sickening,
you know, and thankfully it's just it's

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a small minority of people in our
world who do crimes like the ones we

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show on Court TV. Opening Statements
with Julie Grant on Court TV weeknights at

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eight o'clock and you're a prosecutor,
and our legal system can be full of

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minutia and painstakingly slow and at times
very boring. So do you have to

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spend a lot of time kind of
cutting through the minutia. That's a great

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question, Lee, Thank you for
that. Yes, And I really try

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to on my show and when we
go into our court be live broad because

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and I've been hosting Quartivy Life since
I was part of the Quartvy network relaunched

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in twenty nineteen, and then I
just moved to get my own jowel opening

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statements recently, as you know.
And thank you again for having me on

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to talk about it. But I
try to when we're live and when we're

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watching the trial, to never waste
the viewer's time, right, you know.

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For instance, sometimes when we have
let's say, an expert witness and

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they've put this really impressive curriculum vitae
of qualifications, and they've done a million

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things, and during really doesn't want
to hear about all those things, and

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our viewers certainly does either. They
just want the experts espinion. They know

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they're an expert, they know they're
more than qualified, and so so sometimes

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we'll dip away from from that and
bring on against let's say, to try

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to give the viewers some more value
and kind of cut to the chase and

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then go back into the live coverage
to hear the opinion or sometimes you know,

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jury instructions that can be very tedious. Nobody wants to sit there and

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it's like in paint drive. So
well, we'll do an interview and do

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something. We're exciting when that happened. That was one of the weaknesses of

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court TV in the early days.
I remember watching it and going, wow,

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this is a root canal. When
is this going to end? It's

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funny, yeah, you know,
and and I'm going to tell you something.

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You'll appreciate this, you know,
being such a pro at broadcasting week

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when when we we broadcast trials,
those of us who are travel lawyers and

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we know that in the court room
they're going to be natural positive. But

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in radio or in television, you
know, a positive like oh my goshd

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of dead air. And so it's
funny like I'll be sitting there in the

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desk and the producers look at my
air. Do you want to talk to

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you? Let's go out. They're
like you know having a offense because it's

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ten seconds with nothing said. But
it's just the way it is. Yeah.

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Opening statements with Julie Grant. You
can see it week days at eight

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a m. Eastern. UH and
Julie Grant WI. Thank you for bringing

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us the story and for bringing us
the show and for joining us today.

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A Lee, thank you for letting
me on to your show. Appreciate your

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time today. Thanks for listening to
Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews

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Podcast, and remember to listen to
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