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Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning with full martial firepower- Sifu Bill Phillips, taijiquan student of Cheng Man Ch'ingSend us a textFairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz daily practices the martial art of taijiquan / t'ai chi ch'uan Yang style short form, also known as Cheng Man Ch'ing (CMC) taijiquan form. This episode introduces our third taijiquan teacher, after previously introducing you to Jon Katz's vitally important teacher Julian Chu (a student of CMC senior student Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, several of whose weekend training classes Jon has attended), and Len Kennedy, who is one of two lawyers who has inspired Jon on the taijiquan path. Taijiquan is vitally important to Jon. Courtroom d...2025-06-201h 06Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning by settling for a great outcome- Jon Katz on negotiatingSend us a textFairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz knows that acquittals are great and often exhilarating, but trials can also bring risks. On this Beat the Prosecution episode, Jon Katz talks on his own about the art of obtaining favorable plea or settlement deals, which need to be backed up by the threat and strength of trial readiness. Settlements can only be earned, but are never owed to a criminal defendant. Many Virginia criminal and DUI defendants expect to be offered a plea deal, and want it to be a desirable plea deal. Ho...2025-06-1609 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning by challenging civil liberties violations- Lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai, defending Rümeysa ÖztürkSend us a textFairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows that it is not radical to protest, but instead is among our rights under the Bill of Rights. As an undergraduate alum of Tufts University, Jon Katz opened his eyes and ears all the more to the plight of Rümeysa Öztürk, who is not known to have written or said anything more radical than the decidedly non-radical op-ed she co-authored with three others in the Tufts Daily. Ms. Öztürk has a great team of lawyers -- including our interviewee Mahsa Khanbabai -- and she...2025-05-291h 00Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning by erasing borders- Marissa Feil on entering Canada with a convictionSend us a textFairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows the importance of reducing not only conviction and sentencing risks in Virginia criminal court, but also to minimize adverse collateral consequences from court outcomes. Jon Katz has interviewed some immigration lawyers on our Beat the Prosecution podcast to address immigration risks from criminal case outcomes. This episode is the first one to have a lawyer tell about risks about traveling outside the United States with a criminal conviction or the equivalent, with Canada being the topic of this episode. Enter Canadian crimmigration attorney Marisa Feil, w...2025-05-241h 01Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning with a full court press- Steve Kravit on Judge Dugan's prosecutionSend us a textFairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz strongly dissents from the Trump administration's revoking of the Biden administration's policy of rarely making immigration arrests at courthouses other than for essentially exigent circumstances, lest undocumented people stay away from courthouses when criminal defendants, civil litigants, and witnesses. Separation of powers and federalism also favor no courthouse immigration arrests. "Nobody is above the law" oversimplifies this entire matter, as covered by this podcast episode, with Milwaukee lawyer Stephen Kravit as our guest, to explain the realities over the below-detailed incident involving Judge Hannah Dugan, and how to...2025-05-1458 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning with masterful storytelling, joy & blissful wisdom: Bob Thurman- Dharma teacher & moreSend us a textFairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz derives tremendous inspiration in his courtroom work from teacher Robert Thurman, for his humor, caring realness, great storytelling ability, and certainly his genius in conveying Buddhist, mindfulness and spiritual ideas in a way that draws in the audience. In this episode of Beat the Prosecution, Jon Katz goes beyond what has already been written about Bob, to find out what energizes and inspires him to be the great person and teacher that he is. Bob's story is fascinating, to say the least. In hi...2025-05-031h 06Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning by keeping the claws & fangs on your lawyer- Attorney Carolyn ElefantSend us a textBethesda lawyer Carolyn Elefant is a trailblazing lawyer. Not being cut out to conform to law firm life, she decided thirty years ago to strike out on her own. For decades and counting, she has shared her pearls of wisdom and encouragement -- including in her book Solo By Choice -- for lawyers to consider becoming their own bosses, and to thrive as solo and small firm practitioners. At first, Carolyn's focus on energy law might sound establishmentarian, until you hear here about her repeated representation of the underdog threatened with eminent domain...2025-05-011h 03Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning by speaking up with truth & passion- Bachir Atallah & Celine AtallahSend us a textFairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows that we are at the moment of truth for standing up to Donald Trump's onslaught against non-United States citizens, lawyers and law firms, and higher education. If not, we will face the discomfort of younger generations in the future asking what we did to raise our voices to all this injustice flying from all directions in this period in American government. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is among the groups at the forefront of challenging such a state of affairs, with FIRE having a...2025-04-231h 00Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning from the center of the story- Jon Katz on persuasive storytelling and scene re-enactmentSend us a textFairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz learned early in his trial career about the critical role of persuasive storytelling, executed throughout the trial, and not only in opening and closing. Jon Katz in this first Beat the Prosecution episode in a year without a guest, illustrates how he won an assault trial by supporting his client's alibi by illustrating the alleged assault's happening in Club Blah, where the defendant at the time was in Club Ah, and could not bring himself to stepping foot in Club Blah any more than he could bring himself...2025-04-1811 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning with fiercely compassionate mindfulness and samurai spirit- Michael Carroll of Global Coaching AllianceSend us a textIn 2015, Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz finished court early enough to rush over to the Mindful Leadership conference in Arlington, eager to meet such great teachers as Roshi Joan Halifax, Jim Dethmer and Rhonda Magee. Sold out, said a front desk person. A woman overheard my asking what I could do about that, and she sold me her extra ticket. This conference was so good that it would have been worth flying coast-to-coast for such an experience. Learning applications of mindfulness to my life and work are very important. Among the b...2025-04-091h 11Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning at sentencing and with commutation- Felicia Donald, former federal inmate released under the CARES ActSend us a textFairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz named this podcast Beat the Prosecution in sync with his teacher SunWolf's watchword that reality is no obstacle. By shooting for the stars, great outcomes be achieved in court. Nonetheless, plenty of criminal defendants get convicted, requiring all criminal defense lawyers to be great at sentencing. Recently, Jon Katz's fellow criminal defense lawyer Bret Lee told Jon of his and lawyer Marvin Miller's Northern Virginia federal criminal defense client Felicia Donald, saying she was willing to be on Jon's podcast. Dr. Donald is a physician w...2025-03-291h 00Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning by throwing your full self into the battle: Ofelia Calderon- Virginia crimmigration lawyerSend us a textFairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz first met local highly-regarded immigration / crimmigration lawyer Ofelia Calderon (Merrifield, Fairfax, Virginia) nearly 20 years ago at a Cinco de Mayo celebration, introduced by Jon's then law partner Jay Marks who subsequently became Ofelia's law partner for a few years. Ofelia is the third immigration lawyer on this Beat the Prosecution podcast, and for good reason, with Ofelia being the first immigration lawyer to join us after Donald Trump returned to the White House and unleashed a slew of unfriendly, dangerous and often downright civil liberties- and due process-violating...2025-03-201h 01Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerApplying psychodrama and other winning Trial Lawyers College approaches- Charles Abourezk, Chief Justice of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Supreme CourtSend us a textSouth Dakota trial lawyer Charles Abourezk has a compelling story as a lawyer and beyond that role. He grew up on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, and advocated for Indian Americans before and after law school. He represented indigenous people's interests at the United Nations. He produced and directed radio and television programming concerning Native Americans. Charlie is Chief Justice of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Supreme Court in South Dakota; Justice of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Appellate Court; Justice of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Appellate Court; and Special Jud...2025-03-1058 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerFrom Guantanamo and back- Winning with full devotion to clients, persuasion, and fearlessness: Rosa Eliades- Criminal Defense Lawyer & Trial ConsultantSend us a textEvery criminal defense and other trial lawyer faces the possible moment of truth about how to handle an unjust judicial directive. This week's guest Rosa Eliades -- along with lead counsel Richard Kammen (who wore a kangaroo pin to Guantanamo court and has pointed words about the military commissions), and co-counsel Mary Spears -- in 2017 obtained approval from now-former Marine criminal defense Brigadier General John Baker to withdraw as civilian defense lawyers for Guantanamo defendant Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Al-Nashiri, due to their not receiving judicial authorization to share critical but classified evidence...2025-03-0359 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerFirst Amendment FIRE Lawyers Harvey Silverglate & Robert Corn-Revere- Winning by staying true to our principlesSend us a textOne of the two founders of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education -- Harvey Silverglate -- figured the group might no last much past ten years beyond its 1999 founding. Instead, Silverglate, describes the group -- renamed Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression -- as having filled the gap that was left when the ACLU became more of a progressive organization and less of a free expression protector. Fairfax criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz first met criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate over twenty years ago through t...2025-02-221h 06Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerDemanding fully of ourselves in serving criminal defendants- Senior Virginia public defender Michael CashSend us a textIn this Beat the Prosecution episode, Fairfax, Virginia, criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jon Katz talks with the fifth public defender lawyer to be on this podcast. Arlington County, Virginia, senior public defender Michael Cash is a true believer in his clients and his work. His successful law school application to the University of Virginia Law School proclaimed his goal to do indigent criminal defense work. His story is riveting, including how he does public defender work for his profession, and public defender work on his free time. Michael recognizes that being a...2025-02-2157 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning while redefining what is victory: Trial Teacher & Asheville criminal defense lawyer Fredilyn SisonSend us a text"I lucked out with getting interviewed by a great host." Those are the words of this episode's guest Fredilyn "Fredi" Sison, upon speaking for the first time on a podcast. Fairfax, Northern Virginia, criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz has known Fredi for years. Jon Katz and Fredi Sison are both graduates -- from separate years -- of the multi-week Trial Lawyers College, when the TLC was still at Gerry Spence's beautiful Thunderhead Ranch, outside Dubois, Wyoming, before the schism that led to the TLC's operating elsewhere. Fredi for years taught a...2025-02-111h 04Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerView from risking incarceration- Winning from the heart center- Peace & Plowshares activist Susan CraneSend us a textFor the first time on Fairfax, northern Virginia criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz's podcast, we have one of his former clients joining us. Susan Crane has engaged in four Plowshares peace actions and calculates that she has spent nearly a total of seven years of her life in jails and prisons. Jon Katz was honored to have co-counseled with Ramsey Clark and Anabel Dwyer in defending Susan, Jesuit Father Stephen Kelly, Elizabeth Walz, and Father Philip Berrigan in Susan's third Plowshares action, in 1999 hammering on two A-10 military aircraft, to c...2025-02-071h 05Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerDecades of mindfulness & meditation practice- Winning by bursting with positive energy and focus- Jonathan FoustSend us a textFairfax, Northern Virginia criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz knows the benefit of mindfulness and meditative practice to beating the prosecution and to living a great life. Jon Katz's main mindfulness practice is taijiquan / t'ai chi chu'an yang style short form (also known as 37 posture Cheng Man Ch'ing / CMC taijiquan). Jon has also been involved with lawyers mindfulness gatherings. Jon also benefits from the practice of Self Identity Through Ho'oponopono. This practice helps develop razor sharp focus, deep listening, and clearing out one's internal gunk. Right here in the nation's capital area are...2025-01-3159 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerPracticing law & martial arts- Winning with deep listening & calmness- My early taijiquan teacher Len KennedySend us a textLawyers were two of Fairfax, Northern Virginia criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz's early inspirations on the taijiquan / tai ch'i ch'uan path, those being the late Victor Crawford and this episode's guest, Leonard "Len" J. Kennedy. Vic was an energetic and engaging lawyer, who early in Jon Katz's criminal defense career told about his years-long practice of this martial art. Seeking a personal breakthrough, a few years later, Jon asked Vic to recommend a taijiquan teacher. Victor mailed Jon pamphlets about several teachers, including Glen Echo taijiquan. There, Jon learned from Ellen a...2025-01-241h 03Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerAdvocating for immigrants: Winning with full client engagement & teamwork: Crimmigration lawyer and former immigration judge Paul GrussendorfSend us a textFairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz's first client visit to a jail was with his law professor and immigration legal clinic director Paul Grussendorf. Jon Katz's first two trials were also with Paul, one a deportation hearing for that jailed client after he had gotten convicted for importation of two kilos of cocaine into the United States, and the other for an Ethiopian client who had found safe haven in Zimbabwe and then flew to the United States, when U.S. immigration policy disfavored forum shopping for safe havens and political asylum after already...2025-01-181h 00Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWhale Wars' Paul Watson: Winning with Courage, Passion and ImaginationSend us a textIn mid-December 2024, Denmark released Captain Paul Watson (co-founder of Greenpeace, and founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) after five months of captivity in an apartment-like incarceration setting in Greenland, when Denmark ultimately declined to extradite him to Japan for a matter about which Captain Watson asserts his innocence. Three weeks after Captain Watson's release, Fairfax, Virginia criminal defense and DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz had the privilege to spend an hour with him on our Beat the Prosecution podcast, covering such topics as risking detention and prosecution for what we deeply believe...2025-01-081h 02Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerMarijuana battles as incentives for winning- NORML founder Keith Stroup & political director Morgan FoxSend us a textMarijuana in large part accelerated Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz's transition from working at a corporate law firm to becoming a criminal defense lawyer many years ago. Jon Katz one day read about a federal prosecutor's issuance of a subpoena for High Times Magazine's advertiser records. Jon figured that the prosecutor was going after customers of hydroponic indoor marijuana growers. In protest, Jon took out a subscription to High Times, and told the same by letter to the then-federal attorney general and High Times. As a result of that subscription, Jon learned about...2024-12-301h 02Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerOverlap between emergency room physicians & criminal defense lawyers- Winning through resilience, internal strengthening & developed perception: Zen priest Wendy Lau, M.D.Send us a textGreat criminal defense is like delivering clients excellent results while balanced on a pinnacle thousands of feet above the ground below. For that reason, Fairfax criminal / Virginia DUI attorney Jon Katz has invited Zen priest and former New York City emergency room physician Wendy Dainin Lau, M.D., who went from computer technology to medical school, and, after burnout, to the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe. Effective criminal defense lawyers in so many ways are like emergency room physicians, single-mindedly reaching out to their patients as verbal bows and arrows...2024-12-201h 01Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerStanding firm against injudicious judging- Attorney Sameera Ali, VACDL president Lauren Whitley, lawyer Erin Smith & attorney Jim MagnerSend us a textCriminal defense lawyers must hang together lest they hang separately. Northern Virginia lawyer Sameera Ali accepted an Alexandria Juvenile & Domestic Relations (JDR) Court request to represent an indigent defendant (for abysmally low pay), let the court know she was not available on the then-pending court date, got the prosecutor's office on board for seeking a very brief court date rescheduling to when Ms. Ali was available, and instead got issued a show cause notice to appear in the same court to address why she should not be held in jailable contempt of court. 2024-12-1355 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerUsing the Bill of Rights for sexual freedom- Ricci Levy of Woodhull Sexual Freedom Foundation & Florida lawyer Larry WaltersSend us a textNow that marijuana has become heavily decriminalized in Virginia and beyond, Fairfax criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz sees drug reform and protecting adults' right to choose their consensual sexual activity as critical to protecting everyone's civil liberties. Joining us for this Beat the Prosecution podcast episode are Woodhull Freedom Foundation president and CEO Ricci Levy, and WFF general counsel and First Amendment defense lawyer Lawrence G. Walters. John has known these two guests for many years. The Woodhull Freedom Foundation's website presents the group's mission as affirming sexual freedom as a f...2024-12-031h 00Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerRelentless defense on the road to victory- Fairfax public defender / Justice Forward Virginia leader Bryan T. KennedySend us a text"Aspiring full time anti-racist" is how senior Fairfax public defender lawyer Bryan T. Kennedy describes himself on his Twitter page. In this episode of Beat the Prosecution, Bryan joins Fairfax criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz in discussing how to beat the prosecution both in court and through out-of-court action, action, and more action, including with strength in numbers and having a great team of lawyers and non-lawyers. Bryan is a founding member of Justice Forward Virginia , which has made huge inroads in bringing Virginia out of its capital punishment...2024-11-2658 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerDefending in criminal court by keeping one's eyes on the prize- Plowshares & Catholic Worker activist Mark ColvilleSend us a textFairfax criminal and DWI lawyer Jonathan Katz heard Abbie Hoffman's lawyer Gerald Lefcourt speak in 1991 about how Abbie had asked Gerry to keep Hoffman out of jail so that he could keep pursuing his agenda. At that moment, Jon wondered whether he had missed the boat on the days of defending activists. Nine years later, Jon teamed with Ramsey Clark to defend the Plowshares 4 at their 2000 criminal jury trial following their action against depleted uranium, and Ramsey mentioned there being plenty of interesting activists to defend when doing so for free. ...2024-11-131h 05Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerJudge David L. Lewis (Ret.)- Winning by throwing one's full self and humor into the fightSend us a textWhen Fairfax criminal defense / DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz attended his first National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers meeting, he was wowed by a talk by New York attorney David L. Lewis, who is brilliant, uniquely humorous, and tremendously persuasive. David has been very generous in sharing his knowledge and experience with his fellow criminal defense attorneys. After all these decades, David continues to inspire Jon Katz in pursuing his clients' best defense, following the possibilities and not being hemmed in by perceived boundaries. Hear David's fascinating story about his path to c...2024-10-301h 01Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerHarmonizing criminal defendants' imbalanced situations- Venerable Thubten ChodronSend us a textFairfax criminal defense lawyer and DUI attorney Jonathan Katz has been inspired for years by the great and to-the-point online dharma talks and guided meditations by Venerable Thubten Chodron. Venerable is at once compassionate, kind, generous of her time and as tough as nails. Through divine coincidence that neither knew about at the time, Venerable was editing a book about inmates when Jon Katz invited her onto this show. Transcending all religious and non-religious approaches to life, Venerable here gives great lessons on non-anger, selflessness, restorative justice, working with inmates, mindfulness...2024-10-1558 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerCriminal defense wizard Lisa Monet Wayne- Winning through powerful trial advocacySend us a textThere are heroes, and then there are heroes. Lisa Monet Wayne is one of Fairfax criminal / Virginia DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz's greatest heroes. Lisa was one of Jon Katz's earliest great criminal defense teachers, encouraging attorneys not to shy away from taking even the toughest cases to trial. She was among Jon's teachers at the National Criminal Defense College's Trial Practice Institute. Lisa is one in a line of great former Colorado Public Defender training directors. She is currently Executive Director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). This i...2024-10-0957 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning by mindfully empowering ourselves in the face of racism and all other hurdles- Law professor & author Rhonda MageeSend us a textFairfax criminal defense and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz was floored when he met law professor, mindfulness teacher, and teacher on overcoming racial injustice Rhonda Magee, at the 2015 Mindful Leadership conference in Arlington, Virginia. Nine years later, Jon Katz catches back up with Rhonda, talking about her essential book The Inner Work of Racial Justice, her work with addressing how we handle racial injustice, about being proactive rather than reactive to others' verbal and nonverbal trespasses, and her online events and meditations. Rhonda is a leader in these practices. 2024-10-0251 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerConscious Leader Deb Katz- Winning without negative reactivitySend us a textIn 2015, Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz finished court earlier than expected, and beelined to the Mindful Leadership conference in Crystal City, Virginia, in part to meet speaker Roshi Joan Halifax. Snagging a ticket to this soldout event, Jon met Roshi Joan, and also sat mesmerized by speaker Jim Dethmer's (co-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group) talk about conscious leadership, and about the difference between leading from above the line (where one is open, curious, and not attacking) versus from below the line. This conscious leadership approach is fully addressed in The 15 Commitments of...2024-09-1959 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerDefending activists who broadcast their actions- Activists' lawyer Mark GoldstoneSend us a textCriminal defense usually includes keeping the burden with the prosecution to attempt to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. That approach can be turned upside down with activists who broadcast their actions loudly and clearly. Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz first faced that situation when teaming with Ramsey Clark to defend four Plowshares activists who hammered on warplanes outfitted to fire depleted uranium missiles. The four defendants' openness about their actions made winning the destruction of property count a challenge to win at their jury trial, while pretrial, Jon still convinced the...2024-09-131h 03Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning at zero and with personal responsibility- Kamaile Rafaelovich on Self Identity Through Ho'oponoponoSend us a textReaching and being in a state of zero is vital for Fairfax, Northern Virginia criminal defense and DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz. Jon Katz has learned and applies this approach of zero through taijiquan, mindfulness, nonduality, and Self Identity Through Ho'oponopono (SITH). Taijiquan master Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo taught that by being at zero, we are never chasing nor letting outside forces nor influences guide our path. Mindfulness helps us clean our internal gunk and vibrate away new gunk. Nonduality / non-attachment enables us to find, harness and unleash our power internally, without gauging our...2024-09-061h 00Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning through compassion, true sensing & realness- Nikki MirghaforiSend us a textAfter learning about non-attachment after revisiting Wim Wenders's visit in Tokyo-Ga to the gravesite of famous director Yasujirō Ozu (who left his body only eight months after Jon Katz was born), whose headstone was marked solely with the character 無 Mu (translatable as nothingness), Fairfax Virginia criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz learned more clearly and deeply about nonduality / non-attachment, and began more intentionally pursuing this life path, through his continued practice of the taijiquan martial art, additional mindfulness practice, and lessons from such great teachers as Baba Ram Das (born Richard Alpert) abo...2024-08-291h 02Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerJon Katz's teacher for peaceful powerfulness - Jun Yasuda of Nipponzan MyohojiSend us a textWhen Fairfax, Virginia criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz faces particularly challenging times in court, he often imagines that his peace teacher Jun Yasuda is to his right, his trial teacher Steve Rench is to his left, and his martial arts teacher is also right there. This Beat the Prosecution episode interviews Jon Katz's friend and peace mentor Jun Yasuda, who spearheaded making the Grafton, New York, Peace Pagoda a reality.https://www.graftonpeacepagoda.org (This peace pagoda is such an amazing place that Jon's friend's usually constantly overactive dog stood in...2024-08-1357 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerHaving winning fun while fighting on the side of the angels- Longime DC ACLU legal director Art SpitzerSend us a textArt Spitzer for four decades served as the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of the national capital area. Fairfax, Virginia criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jon Katz has known Art since before the time Jon served on that group's board for three years in the early 1990's, and through that experience has met such great civil libertarians as Art Spitzer, Eugene Fidell (a dean of military criminal defense lawyers), and Mary Jane DeFrank, who for years served as the affiliate's executive director. Art tells a fascinating story about ho...2024-08-011h 01Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerStephen Bright- Fighting for racial justice and full indigent defense funding in the criminal courtsSend us a textLawyer Stephen B. Bright is a hero to Fairfax criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz and to many other people. Steve left the security of his public defender salary at one of the nation's premier defender offices, to barely receive pay during some of the early months of his working to overturn death sentences imposed in the Georgia capital punishment machine. While Jon Katz was yearning to shift to serving social justice when at a corporate law firm doing litigation and regulatory work, at a 1990 post-Supreme Court oral argument reception a...2024-07-2357 minBeat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerWinning with a full frontal assault, and more- Criminal defense lawyer Ernie LewisSend us a textErnie Lewis was one of Fairfax criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz's instructors at the National Criminal Defense College's Trial Practice Institute. Ernie is a past head of the Kentucky public defender system and a co-founder of the National Association of Public Defense. Join us as Ernie talks with Jon Katz about Ernie's relentless, fully prepared and caring approach to beating the prosecution. For Ernie's very direct approach to effectively defending the accused, see his "10 Top Things I always wanted to say at a judge’s conference," including:2024-07-191h 01Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerLegendary criminal defense lawyer Tony Serra- Winning as a True Believer with a total focus on defendants, great outcomes & mercilessness towards snitchesSend us a textTrue believer criminal defense lawyer J. Tony Serra has been defending for over sixty years. He sees the criminal justice system as a broken system, without letting him shy away from fighting in court whatsoever. https://pier5law.com/attorneys/j-tony-serra/Early in his career, Fairfax, Virginia criminal defense / DUI lawyer Jon Katz became aware of Tony and his being a true believer. Tony's single-minded and highly capable devotion to pursuing great outcomes for his clients with his self-imposed vow of poverty is enough to take notice of him, and to...2024-07-1144 min