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Apple v. FBI, Grim Sleeper on Trial, Surrogacy
Today, an update on the legal fight between Apple and the FBI, which wants Apple to help it access a cell phone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. What are the implications? Also, the Grim Sleeper suspect goes on trial.
By Madeleine Brand • • 52m ListenWe start today with an update on the legal fight between Apple and the FBI, which wants Apple to help it access a cell phone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
Then, the trial of Lonnie Franklin, accused of being the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer, started this week. What do we know about the case?
Next, Madeleine speaks to a city councilman from Adelanto, a high desert town that’s become the second city in the state to allow the commercial cultivation of medical marijuana.
In other marijuana-related news, Madeleine speaks to the director of the new documentary Rolling Papers.
And finally, a fight between a father and a surrogate mother highlights all kinds of legal questions about surrogacy in California.
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In this episode
5 storiesApple v. FBI
Apple is refusing to comply with a court order to enable the FBI to access a cellphone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. A federal judge ordered Apple to help the government break the phone’s encryption.
Read the story9 minGrim Sleeper Trial Begins
The trial in the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killings started downtown yesterday. The Grim Sleeper suspect is Lonnie Franklin, a former city garbage man. He’s accused of murdering 10 women in South L.A. over 23 years.
Read the story8 minWeed Town
If you’ve ever heard of Adelanto, California, it’s probably because you caught it out of the corner of your eye as you were driving up the 15 on your way to Vegas. Or maybe you spent time in one of the town’s four prisons? Well, now Adelanto has a new claim to fame – one that has real estate developers lining up to buy land there.
Read the story9 min'Rolling Papers'
In 2012, Colorado became the first state to make recreational marijuana legal. Not long after that, the Denver Post became the first daily newspaper in the nation to hire a pot editor and pot reviewers. A new documentary takes a look at the reporters and reviewers of the Post’s Culture of Cannabis website, The Cannabist.
Read the story15 minA Surrogacy Saga
Surrogacy is the Wild West of reproductive law in the U.S. Take this story for example : A Georgia man hired a California woman as a surrogate. She became pregnant with triplets. The man, who is 50, single and deaf, wasn’t sure he’d want or be able to care for three babies.
Read the story11 min
