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Hello, Bob Barney here with a 7-eleven short show and it’s a tribute and a memorial to Gerry Spence, the attorney who died last Thursday. And it meant a lot to me because he’s somebody, I know he was a liberal and all defense attorneys are liberal, but he was a very smart man and he stood up for justice for the poor. He did many cases that nobody else would touch and he had a good quote about keeping freedom and
0:32that was, skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism, he said, is the father of all freedoms. It is like the pry that holds the door open for the truth to slip in. And the man was a man that stood up for the little person, defended the people that no one else would probably want to defend because they didn’t think they could win. He was born in 1929 when my mom was born, so she would have been 96 years old too. He died at 96
1:05years old. He was an American trial lawyer. He was an author of over 16 books. I have a few of them and I’ve listened to, I usually have the audiobooks when we travel, and I listened to one of them that was just incredible. It was a story of his early life as a lawyer. He was very well known for his high-profile type trial cases that he did. Trial cases like Randy Weaver. Nobody was gonna touch the Randy Weaver story. He was one of these survivalists. He’s one of these people
1:37against the government, armed to the teeth, living out by himself in the mountains, I think of Montana, and trying to leave life behind him, trying to live his own religion the way he wanted to see it. And the government, the Bill Clinton government, wanted to see him dead. And that’s the truth. They sent FBI agents to watch his property and they literally shot his son to death from a sniper location. I think he was 14, 15 years old. Then after they surrounded his place trying to get him to surrender, which he refused to do and the standoff
2:19was forever, and then a sniper took out his wife, shot his wife dead. And so when, I can’t remember the guy, he’s a very famous war hero, ran for president, walked up there on his own, opened up the door and said, Randy, it’s time you give yourself up. And he walked him down and he surrendered and everyone assumed that Randy Weaver was going away for a long time until Gerry Spence took the case and he won the case. And I’m going to give you some information about Gerry Spence.
2:59This man was probably one of the best orators of all time. This man could speak, he could speak to a jury, he could speak on anything, and you know, he was just mesmerizing. That’s what I liked about Garnerton Armstrong. I’m gonna do a show on Garnerton Armstrong one of these days, too. The man had the gift. I wish I had their gift, but Gerry Spence had the gift of making rational sense that when you heard it you thought for a minute, you know, I never thought of it that way. He never, he started off as a prosecutor. We
3:32know him as this great defense attorney standing up for the little guy with justice, which he did really well. But you know he was a prosecutor for the first part of his career and he never lost a case as a prosecutor. Never lost a case. Then he became a criminal defense lawyer. You want to know what? He never lost a case. Gerry Spence never lost a case. He never lost a civil case. He never lost a criminal case and he never lost a case that he prosecuted.
4:05That’s the original Perry Mason of our day. Anybody knows the old Perry Mason show, Perry Mason never lost a case? He did one case, he lost, but the next week he came back and got an appeal and won the case. So Gerry Spence is the Perry Mason of our day. Gerry Spence stood up for the little guy.
4:23He stood up for what I’m trying to stand up for and what God wants Spence stood up for the little guy, he stood up for what I’m trying to stand up for and what God wants you to stand up for, and that is for the plain truth. No matter who you are, no matter where your rank is in life, God expects us to treat everyone the same and to always look for the real, plain truth and not the truth that’s convenient for a quick prosecution. You know, a good prosecutor, when he finds out the truth that an innocent person is being railroaded by a
4:58police force, that prosecutor should drop the case. But that’s not what happens anymore in our corrupt legal system. The Bible talks about our system when it says there is no justice in the land, and there is no justice in the land if you are poor. You can usually buy justice if you’re rich, but that’s not always the case, as Donald Trump found out. But if you’re poor in this country today, you have prosecutors that do not care if you’re innocent or not. They’re looking for a
5:32notch in their belt. It’s pretty bad when you think about this. But I have a friend of mine that I think is a pretty good guy, and he is pretty well versed on court systems and he said when he’s in court, it’s pretty sad to say this, but the two biggest liars in court, actually he tells you the third, but the two biggest liars in court is not the defendant in a criminal charge, it’s the police officer and the prosecuting attorney and the third biggest liar is the judge. And then I can add from a friend of ours of Tammy’s and mine who was put in jail for a murder he did
6:12not commit for 30 some years, the medical examiners can be big liars too. So I want to give my hats off to Gerry Spence, a great guy. Like I said, he was a liberal. I didn’t agree with his liberal philosophies about politics, but I do agree that he stood up for the truth, the plain truth, and he defended people that no other lawyer would touch because they thought they would lose. He took cases he should have lost and won them. Just a quick one, other than Randy Weaver, you’ve heard of the Karen
6:49Silkwood, he defended her. And Imelda Marcos, he defended her. He was an equal opportunity defense attorney. Like Jesus Christ is defending you right now if you want him to. Just call on him and he will defend you in the court of heaven. This is Bob Barney with a tribute to Gerry Spence saying thank heaven. This is Bob Barney with a tribute toGerry Spence saying thank you for listening. Bye-bye.
