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- (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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RESOURCES
Case 1: Priest bit woman at mass said she had it coming https://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article288674360.html?taid=664f84498a3e69000149b081
Case 2: Bouncy castle arsonist https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/jumping-castle-arson-firebombing-james-balcombe/102363376
Case 3: Paternity battle between twin brothers https://abcnews.com/TheLaw/LegalCenter/daddy-paternity-battle-brothers/story?id=3195632
Case 4: The most expensive pack of Bud Light ever (new SCOTUS case!) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/20/supreme-court-decide-alaska-mans-95000-fine-six-pack-budweiser-fair/?srsltid=AfmBOopP_2Q84sa-AumTGFIY4B4o5c8f7T49OyHYvyQNv6OQFjf2Hi31
Case 5: Chainsaw negligence https://law.justia.com/cases/illinois/court-of-appeals-second-appellate-district/2019/2-18-0923.html
Case 6: Living, breathing man still legally dead https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/us/ohio-legally-dead-man
Case 7: Nun prosecuted for embarrassing government https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/13/406252639/imprisoned-nuclear-activist-nun-granted-victory-on-appeal
Case 8: Two polygamist ninja burglars caught in Utah https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/20/polygamist-women-utah-sex-assault-case
Case 9: Patients can finally recover their amputated limbs in Oregon https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/patients-can-finally-recover-their-amputated-limbs-under-new-oregon-law/
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00:00 - Intro
00:14 - Case 1
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
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - (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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00:00 - Case Begins
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!)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - (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.)
Enjoy. **Thank you to @DietCoke_Esq for initially tweeting about this case and sending Reb down this rabbit hole! **
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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
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - (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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00:00 - Intro
01:08 - CASE #1
13:46 - Reb's server trauma story<3
17:23 - CASE #1 cont.
30:46 - CASE #2 **CONTENT WARNING**
36:58 - CASE #3
42:34 - Reb's Rebuttal
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - (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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00:00 - Intro
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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