Episode 24 with Robin Konrad

Inside Job Podcast

This week's pod is a conversation with Death Penalty Information Center Director of Research and Special Projects Robin Konrad. Robin and I spoke about her career, defending Death Row inmates and Glossip v Gross, a landmark case she litigated in front of the United States Supreme Court. Our conversation included talk of our hometown of Lake Worth, Florida (1:00); not wanting to attend college but ending up at Boston University (05:00); thoughts of law school after discovering the story of a civil rights leader in Florida named Harry T. Moore (10:00); Howard Law School (13:00); her clerkship for Judge Damon J. Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (23:00); her move into Capital Habeas work (25:40); our Three Spree segment featuring three places to visit in D.C., three moments in her lifelong Duran Duran fandom, and her three favorite athletes (can she name three?!?!) (29:30); fighting the death penalty in different parts of the country (39:45); arguing Glossip v Gross (41:30) before the SCOTUS; and the debate over the death penalty (59:45).