Peter Afrasiabi takes you on an intriguing look at a variety of legal issues, from murder to premeditated murder standards.
In 48 hours in Dallas in November 1963, JFK was assassinated, Oswald was arrested for his murder, and Oswald was then murdered in the prison lobby by Jack Ruby.
The Jack Ruby trial sits often in the shadows of the larger JFK assassination issue. In this fascinating latest installment of the Curious Lawyer series, host Peter Afrasiabi takes you on an intriguing look at a variety of legal issues, from murder to premeditated murder standards.
And we explore the insanity defense, as Ruby claimed he was overcome by grief at the murder of the President and just killed Oswald in a moment of insanity.
At the same time, the case raises issues of venue and fair venues for high profile trials, an issue that affects us to this day. We won’t answer who killed JFK, but we will look at Ruby’s murder of Oswald and whether there was evidence that Ruby himself was part of a conspiracy to kill Oswald.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
