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I Rest My Case

I Rest My Case

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I Rest My Case is a hard-hitting new podcast series that explores the world’s most intriguing true crime cases, hosted by two distinguished British and American criminal defence attorneys, Jonathan Goldberg KC and Dean Strang.



Dean Strang is most famous as a key defence attorney for Steven Avery in Netflix's Making A Murderer. Jonathan Goldberg KC is one of the UK's leading trial advocates and defenders. He has defended in over a hundred murder trials and defended many high-profile defendants, from the infamous Charlie Kray to the innocent Marine A.



From the headline-making cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Kevin Spacey to history’s most fascinating trials, Jonathan and Dean will shine light into the dark crevices of famous trials. Weaving fascinating personal anecdotes from their illustrious careers in criminal law on both sides of the Atlantic, Jonathan and Dean take listeners behind the curtain to reveal stories of their most unpleasant (and pleasant) criminal clients, the roots of the British and American justice systems, and why these systems so often get it wrong.

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  • Derek Chauvin

    Derek Chauvin
    Jan 8 2026

    In this first episode of I Rest My Case, American trial lawyer Dean Strang and leading English KC Jonathan Goldberg dissect the 2020 killing of George Floyd and subsequent prosecution of Derek Chauvin, and ask themselves the question: was justice delivered?


    They recap the infamous incident — from a counterfeit bill arrest to Chauvin's nine-minute-29-second neck restraint captured on video — and reflect on the courtroom tactics deployed, the medical disputes over Floyd’s cause of death, the role played by the enormous pretrial publicity, the limits of US free speech, and the broader use of force within police training programs in the US. The hosts contrast US jury selection with the UK’s "take what you get" approach, and debate whether the multiple homicide charges and 22 and a half-year sentence were appropriate: did this outcome spur any real change in US police training methods or was the trial all for show?


    The first of many fascinating conversations in this hard-hitting new true crime series that takes listeners behind the curtain of the world’s most famous and extraordinary courtroom trials — always searching for the truth where it is so often obscured.

    I Rest My Case with Jonathan Goldberg KC and Dean Strang is a Pixiu Podcast

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