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Episode 8: Nuns & Priests in a Courtroom: Catholic Hospital on Trial

A mother and her son from the Jehovah’s Witness community go to trial in a birth injury case against a Catholic-affiliated hospital in Corpus Christi.

In this episode of the Truth & Justice League podcast, Mark Mueller tells the story of how he navigated jury selection, religious bias, hospital media efforts to prejudice the jury, and a bogus claim of tampered videotape evidence. He also describes addressing a courtroom packed with nuns and priests brought in for the closing arguments, as he wins this birth injury trial case for his client and her brain-injured son.

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