In the Courtroom with Joshua Schiffer | Unveiling the Heart of Criminal Defense

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, sits down with Georgia criminal defense and injury attorney, Joshua Schiffer. Together they discuss his journey into law, perspectives on caring for clients, achieving work-life balance, insights on jury communication, and analysis of current cases like Delphi and Natalie Holloway. They explore effective trial strategies, mental health factors in criminal justice, and the importance of vulnerability and connection in legal proceedings.

Guest Bio and Links:

Joshua Schiffer is an attorney providing legal services covering Criminal Defense, Personal Injury. Listeners can learn more about Joshua Sschiffer at his website: https://chancoschiffer.com/

Show Notes:

[0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum
[2:30] Sheryl introduces guest, Joshua Schiffer to the listeners
[4:00] Joshua's experience with the American legal system
[8:30] Importance of empathy in legal arguments
[12:00] “Caring is contagious.”
[17:00] Recidivism within the legal system
[19:00] Question: What is going on in Delphi?
[27:55] Contempt of court
[35:45] Joshua's views on justice and advocacy
[37:30] “As a peacemaker, the lawyer has the superior opportunity of being a good man.” -A.L

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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award-winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, a Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students, and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.

You can connect and learn more about Sheryl’s work by visiting the CCIRI website https://coldcasecrimes.org

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Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum

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0:00.0	The first time that I ever thought that I needed a lawyer, I was six years old.
0:16.1	The summer of 1971, there was all this hooplau going on in my house because I was the youngest of five girls
0:24.9	and I was going to be starting school. And oh, everybody just thought it was the greatest thing.
0:30.3	We got to go buy new clothes. We talked all about, you're going to meet friends. You're going to do
0:35.4	all these fabulous things.
0:40.8	And my four sisters had built this thing up.
0:43.7	I basically thought I was going to Disney World.
0:49.0	Well, when I got there, I was basically told to be quiet and sit down.
0:55.1	And then we lined up to get water, and we lined up to go to the bathroom.
0:58.0	I thought it was barbaric and heinous. There were no snacks.
0:59.9	There were no friends that I'd grown up with and had been able to play all day long
1:05.6	while my sisters went off to this horrible place called school.
1:09.2	Well, when I got home that night, I told everybody,
1:11.6	it's the worst experience I've ever had.
1:13.6	I don't know why y'all think it's great.
1:15.6	I'm now questioned why my mother is even a teacher.
1:17.6	Why are you involved in this thing?
1:19.6	It's pitiful.
1:21.6	Well, my mother looks at me and she says,
1:23.6	don't worry, it'll be better tomorrow.
1:26.6	And I said, I gotta go back. I was stunned
1:30.1	that I was going to have to go back to that place and experience this again. And my sister,
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