Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI Lawyer
Welcome to Beat The Prosecution with Fairfax, Virginia criminal defense / DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz. Jon Katz believes in spreading the word of justice on this podcast, in court, and on his blog at https://katzjustice.com/blog, to regularly provide information and ideas for beating your prosecution. More information is available at https://KatzJustice.com and at (703)-383-1100.
Episodes
91 episodes
Winning with cunning, presence, insight & unrattled battle- Lenny Stamm
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz believes strongly in finding calm in the eye of the storm while pursuing his criminal defense clients' best defense in court. Among the criminal defense lawyers who str...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:02:28
Winning with fierce civility- Coach Joe Weston talks with Jon Katz
Conflict prevention coach, TEDx speaker on curing chronic niceness, adviser to inmates, and stress management consultant Joe Weston talks about applying the same taijiquan form that Fairfax criminal defense ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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53:55
Chade-Meng Tan- Searching Inside Yourself and Winning with peace, joy & compassion
Chade-Meng Tan when a Google engineer was the company's Jolly Good Fellow (Which nobody can deny) . Meng decided one day on the then-small Google campus to promote world peace, which led to his su...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:02:23
Sister Helen Prejean of Dead Man Walking- Winning by keeping the fire burning
Sister Helen Prejean -- author of Dead Man Walking -- (donate at sisterhelen.org/donate ) joins Fairfax...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:01:44
Winning with restorative justice- sujatha baliga
Some remarkable people walk among us. One of them is sujatha baliga (spelling her name without capitalization), who greets people with "warm hellos." sujatha is a leader in restorative justice, a pra...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:02:24
Winning with sensing and compassion- Mirabai Bush
In 1971, Mirabai Bush traveled to India, and found more than she bargained for. Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz would hear about Mirabai over the years, through...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:04:44
Winning by integrating with the unfolding story- Stephen Engel
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz was invigorated early on by entertaining others, including performing magic shows for children's birthday parties and performing musically, including with improvisation...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:00:44
Winning by conveying a compelling story- Matty Wegehaupt
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz knows the power of a compellingly persuasive story. The elements of such a story can include setting a vivid scene, often with word pictures, a keen sense of the audien...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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48:01
Winning by sensing the opportunities- Abi Williams
Fairfax, Virginia, criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz first met international relations expert and five-book author Abiodun Williams when th...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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58:19
Winning while fully teaming with clients- Joe Margulies talks with Jon Katz
This week’s podcast guest is Joseph Margulies, an accomplished civil rights litigator, author of three books and many online articles, and Cornell University professor. Joe was couns...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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55:25
Winning with boundary-moving storytelling- Danny Schnitzlein of Monster Who Ate My Peas
Storytelling is a key part of persuading in court. In this Beat the Prosecution episode, Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz interviews one of his favorite storytellers,
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:00:51
Winning without brute force- Kung Fu chronicler Herbie J Pilato
Many times, Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jon Katz has quoted this great passage from the Kung Fu television pilot with David Carradine as a Shaolin priest (1972): “Perceive the way of natu...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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58:20
Winning with full scene engagement- Jonathan D. Moreno & Chris Flohr
Psychodrama plays a major role at the Trial Lawyers College that Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz attended for a full month in 1995. Psychodrama was founded by Jacob L Moreno and taught and pur...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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1:03:17
Winning with powerfully optimistic zeal- Bruckheim & Patel
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz's go-to lawyers for referrals for District of Columbia criminal defense are Michael Bruckheim and Sweta Patel at Bruckheim & Patel<...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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1:03:03
Winning with a compelling voice, compassion, and clarity- Nina Rao chants
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz last month joined several hundred attendees at the Boone, NC, Ram Dass mountain legacy retreat. The experience was wonderful, with people connecting at the heart and s...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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1:01:16
Winning while at peace with an open heart- Raghu Markus
After attending a great mid-August mountain retreat celebrating Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) with several hundred people -- complete with kirtan with Krishna Das (lead singer of the precursor to Blue Oyst...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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1:02:00
Winning with a devotion to true justice- David Walsh-Little
When Fairfax criminal defense / DUI lawyer Jonathan Katz joined with Ramsey Clark in defending the Plowshares activists for their 2000 criminal jury trial for their
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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59:53
Gerry Spence's gifts live on- Talk by his students Jon Katz & Shalev Ben-Avraham
Fairfax, Virginia criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz's teacher Gerry Spence lived until 96 years, and transitioned from his body on August 13, 2025. Gerry has had ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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1:15:38
Winning while taking on tough cases- Jerry Zerkin
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz started law school seeing the glass as more half empty than full when it came to protecting people's Constitutional rights and civil liberties. That...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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56:58
Winning with martial arts sense- David Kaufman of KarateLaw.com
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz one day Googled for other lawyers practicing martial arts, and came upon David Kaufman of KarateLaw.com . Now, several years later, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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55:10
Winning with full martial firepower- Sifu Bill Phillips, taijiquan student of Cheng Man Ch'ing
Fairfax 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 introduc...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:06:03
Winning by settling for a great outcome- Jon Katz on negotiating
Fairfax 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 t...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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9:26
Winning by challenging civil liberties violations- Lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai, defending Rümeysa Öztürk
Fairfax 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 eye...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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1:00:24
Winning by erasing borders- Marissa Feil on entering Canada with a conviction
Fairfax 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 ou...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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1:01:26
Winning with a full court press- Steve Kravit on Judge Dugan's prosecution
Fairfax 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 essen...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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58:09