Marko Marjanovic For Judge, 24th JDC Div. F

0:00William Wallace is a God first family and freedom loving podcaster and video host who sounds the alarm for liberty in America. He is a constitutional conservative and proud patriot who believes in uniting Americans around freedom, individual liberty, capitalism, constitutional rights, and fiscal responsibility. He's often labeled a right winger and sometimes criticized for being too willing to engage with voices on the left. But William believes real solutions come from listening to a wide range of perspectives. His goal is to find common ground without sacrificing core principles, especially when those conversations lead to common sense ideas that put America first, protect individual freedoms, and make prosperity attainable for everyone. At times his views may sound libertarian, but at his core he is America first, pro military, pro constitution, pro life, Bible believing, and a strong defender of the first and second amendments. Above all, he's a bill of rights kind of guy who

1:01wants more Americans to come together around smaller government, his core responsibility, faith, family, and freedom for all. Switch your cell phone service to a company that puts America first believes in conservative values, offers plans if it any budget with some very competitive rates, and you'll get the same or better service because they use all of the carrier lines. Go to patreon mobile dot com forward slash W W F A to get a free month now, switch your cell phone service to page at mobile dot com forward slash W W F A support them and conservative values and America first and my show William Wallace for America. Alright guys, thank you so much for tuning into my show William Wallace for America. As you've been watching, I've been traveling around Jefferson Parish particularly and all other parishes around here and I love bringing on those judicial candidates because as I talk about regularly and

2:02maybe not enough is that I believe that our judicial candidates are like our second responders, you know, they're there. They're all do a lot of work in helping protect and keep our communities safe and also protect our constitutional rights. So we're going to get into that a little bit with this judicial candidate who I have up next. I'm going to introduce his first name because I don't know how to pronounce his second his last name, but I'm going to let him do that. Mark go, how are you doing my friend? Great. Great pleasure being here. Yes, it's Mark is my first name last name, Maria Neavitch, a lot of letters, difficult pronounce, but it's my name and I'm proud of it, born with it and happy to be here. So where is Mary Mary Neavitch? Yes, sir. Oh, I did get it right. Where is that from anyway? Sure. So originally, I it's yeah, it from Eastern Europe. So my family came and used to be a country called Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, a war

3:03happened. The country fell apart in a couple different countries nowadays, but modern day Bosnia and Croatia and Serbia. Is it still by as it by the can Bosnia Croatian Serbia? Yes, there's ultimately been six countries I think that separated, but where most of my family is, I was born the city of Sarajevo, which is in modern day Bosnia, but most of my family is in Croatia, Bosnia and then throughout the rest of the world, you know, because obviously a war you got to move. Exactly. So so do you or your family was basically chased out of your country of birth? Yes, yes, unfortunately, you know, as you know, you can't pick where you're born, God places you on this earth. And for us, for me and my family, it was Sarajevo Yugoslavia. And in the early 90s, there was a war, there was a conflict. Fortunately enough, my mom and I were able to get out early on, but there was a lot of strife or

4:06house got bombed two times, a lot of snipers, a lot of unfortunate things all around, you know, so but I'm happy America took us in. I'm happy and incredibly proud of you. But you all came here legally. Absolutely. American citizen. So I couldn't be prouder of that. There was a lot of people in this country that didn't know me, didn't know my family. And they took us in. They gave us shelter. They gave us an opportunity. They gave my dad a job in my parents always knew when the conflict started said, America's the only country we can go to where we can start fresh, where people don't care where you're from, they care what you do. And my dad pushed me since I was 13 to have a job to assimilate didn't know the English language, learned it in four months. And they pushed me to a career service, which is, which is why I'm here today. So your parents use you, your mom and dad Yes, they came here. Yes, originally, my mom and I were able to

5:07get out first. And we ended up through a sponsor family in Italy. And we went to the embassy in Rome, the US Embassy and applied and waited. And when I tell you, most people don't know, most people that are blessed to be born here don't know the process, you know, to do it legally, you have to go, you have to apply. There's a background check, there's a physical check, there's a physical examination, it's a month, month, long process, because obviously we want to make sure the people that are coming here are doing it the right way. I like the fact that you did the right way. I think that this is really important because especially since you're wanting for job, you want to have you know, you know, you'll say that you live your life. Sure. You know, the right way too. So let's talk about your spark because I think you have an interesting story and I kind of want to focus on that for just a few minutes because after that I want to talk about your, you know, the qualifications, things that you're doing. Sure. You know, and what you and but before we get there, what Judgship are you running for? It's

6:1024th JDC division. F. So it's the 24th, yes, sir, 24th judicial district division F. And it is the East Bank of Jefferson parish. Those are the people that can vote. But if you win, you hear cases throughout the entire parish, East Bank, West Bank, LaFitte, Kenner, Hair Hand, all of it. So you wake up in America. Yeah. And then you've got high school. You've got college. Where was your, where was the spark for you to say, you know what? I really love this country. Like this, this is this is really like you called this home. Yeah. So I'll tell you, for me for running for judge on a personal level, my mom was a judge where we were born, traffic court judge. And one day a couple of soldiers came in and said, we need you to donate money. We're building a church. They weren't building a church in the middle of a war. And my parents were for peace and stay neutral. And to reward us with that, they blew up our house.

7:13You know, and I tell people, I watch my mom go from, you know, being a judge to taking any job she could to provide, you know, clean and toilets, cleaning houses. Ultimately, in America, should became a paralegal, we didn't have a whole lot of money back then. So I always told myself, I saw what they gave up. I saw the sacrifices they made. And if I'm ever given an opportunity, I want to honor this country and I want to honor my parents. And that's where the first bar came and the thing that really that I always tell people when I was, I was a prosecutor and you know, we can talk about that, but that I always told Juries when the war started. And I saw a country fall apart. Middle of the night, a couple policemen came and took my dad. We didn't know where he was going, how long he was going to be held, what he was charged, what was going to happen. And that's what drove me to be a prosecutor

8:17and a serve here because a lot of people are critical of our criminal justice system here. But believe me, the rights that we have, right? Some people just take for granted, you know, that would never happen here. If you got arrested for anything, you would have a charge. You would have a court date. You would have a right to be in front of a judge. You wouldn't just be taken by people who aren't in the world. Did happen any father? Ultimately, he he was gone for three or four days, you know, coming back, he came back on foot and he said, all it took to get out was to donate our car. So our only family car, we lost, but I got my dad back, you know, and again, that would that's something that I know it sounds crazy. It sounds like a movie, but that's the beautiful rights that we have here. So you in other words, you saw the the opposite of what we have here. I mean, here, you know, you're

9:20innocent until proven guilty. You have you have your constitutional rights and we take it for granted. You know, I think a lot of times when you talk about constitutional rights, people just, you know, they roll their eyes, you know, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that sounds like, you know, those old bounding father guys, but I don't think that people realize that in modern day, we have as much of a chance of losing our rights if they're not protected by our courts, our government, our our government basically, you know, just our constitution keeps our government from taking our rights, but we see our elected officials and government as being protectors of our rights, which isn't as actually how it works, but our judges, you know, protect our constitutional rights through the justice system. And I might be jumping around a little bit, but how do you interpret that and compare it to what you saw going on, you know, in war torn countries like where you live then? So you're exactly right. I mean, the beauty in it and obviously

10:23I'm a price and attorney, but went to law school, you studied the law, you studied the history and the beauty of what our founding fathers envision, right? Is this three separate branches, three separate checks of power, due process ability to be heard to go in front of a judge and have a fair and equal opportunity? Believe me that this not exists throughout the entire world. So you saw that in your in your in your home country, you went to law school. Yes. Again, what at what point did your love of America and the judicial system, the legal system, what pointed spark your, is there an aha moment at and you know, through high school college, did you go to law school because you wanted to, you know, your spark for American justice system having seen or is it something else? Can you explain that time period because then we're going to talk about your, you know, when you graduate of law school and your career from there? Well, look, it started an early age when I watched

11:27my parents work multiple jobs and study. They would come home and then study 40 American citizenship tests. And I would quiz them, right? I'd be like, you know, who is the fourth president? What's this right? And I remember how seriously they took that? And I remember the day when they took the exam and when there was a celebration and they got their citizenship, how proud they were and how proud they were just for a clean slate. That's what this country provides you, right? It gives you an opportunity to do something. It doesn't hold you back. There's some countries that from the moment you're born, you're put in a box. You're either this or you're that or you're ethnically here or you're that, not in America. You're an American citizen first and you're given the opportunity to work to earn a living to raise a family. And that's, that's wonderful. That, I mean, that's what drives me. That's what drove me when I was a kid.

12:27I love it. I love it. All right. Let's, let's talk about you get out of law school because now I want to get your experience going up to be a qualifying for a judge and then we're going to get into some really, really juicy questions. Some, some, some, some, okay. Can't wait. I joke about that. But I just love talking about tying our constitution into our judicial system and, and people's rights. But you get out of college. Let's talk about your resume after college. I got you to this point. So went to LSU undergrad after that one to LSU law school. I met my wife Katie married for 13 years. We got two beautiful kids that live in Jefferson Parish. My daughter Annabella Grace, my son Parker, their nine and six. They're here at St. Catherine's in Metery. But after I left and got my diploma, my first job was working for Paul Connick, who's the DA in Jefferson Parish. And I always knew in law school, that's the job I wanted because that's a job that gives you an opportunity to

13:31stand up for victims rights for people that were underserved, people that were marginalized, victimized, and he'd somebody for a voice. So I started there. First job was traffic court first parish. Then I would leave there at night court, traffic court, you'd work the nights, then go to second parish, juvenile court, felony courts. So I was able to try everything from a traffic court to take it, which really teaches you how to listen to people, right? Because it's these aren't criminals, right? They're you and me. And we're just have a bad day. We took a left on cause way. But then it ended up in juvenile court where I prosecuted felonies and misdemeanors and juvenile court gives you an opportunity to see how the legal justice system affects day to day families, right? If you don't get the children before the police system, the chances of them ended up in the felony docket when they become a major, very, very high, right? So I saw

14:35crime almost go from generation to generation ended up in felony, I prosecuted felony trials, bench trials, misdemeanors. Most of the crimes were crimes against children against women. Again, people that needed somebody to stand up for them. And you never, you never do it alone. Most people come in and say, I'm a prosecutor. I did this, this, it's never I. You're trying to case with a trial partner. You have an investigator, you have detectives, you have victims. It's always a team collaboration, which is what our criminal justice system needs. I love this. I got a question for you. But before I ask the next question, I want to remind everybody that today's show is brought to you by door furniture, a family run business here in our area with great pricing and great service. Go check out their quality furniture, but also shortstop poboys. Check out their poboys for lunch or dinner over on trans content, until

15:38in a mattery and want to have one, you'll get addicted. And I know I have to take care of sponsors too. But you know, it's interesting because I think in the justice system, you know, people always have that. I don't say misconception, but a lot of people think to have a safe community, we have to lock everybody up and throw away the key. But I think victims all we often get forgotten about because a lot of times the focus is on locking up the bad guy. But what I hear more and I'm actually talking about more and more when I talk to a judicial candidate or a judge or somebody in that system is that there's a balance, an unspoken balance that that prosecutors, DAs, attorneys, judges always have to balance or walk because you've got this thing called the Constitution. Absolutely. And again, it sounds like you're trying to be all fought, you know, founding father-esque, you know, I mean, I do have gray hair,

16:41but you know, you get a little gray hair. We also had that curly do. But the thing is that, you know, everybody thinks of terms of just a safe community is locked up the bad guy, but often you have to have such a respect for the law that sometimes that respect for the law seems like you're being soft on the criminal when the real real result of that is that sometimes a criminal deserves a little grace, if you will, or deserves a little justice for them, sometimes doesn't look like a jail cell, justice for them sometimes looks like a program for rehabilitation, or sometimes it looks like a second chance because if you just come down on them, they might lose a job. They become recidivist because if they lose a job, they don't think they have what the turn to is crime. And victims oftentimes, and I've been there, just what's

17:43the guy locked up because they harmed them, but sometimes that respect actually helps victims. And then sometimes there's times when you have to way give more for the victim, more time, more, I guess, energy. Do you see the balance that I'm kind of trying to explain here? And I'd like for you to answer that question. I'd like for you to talk about as a what you're going to go from having worked in the prosecution realm to now being a judge where you got to you got to not just come down the back guy, you got to walk that constitutional line. Well, look, I mean, I told you my personal history, right, told you in the middle of the night, my dad wasn't even accused of a crime, right? There's somebody just knocked in, said, hey, we're taking you here. So I saw that firsthand that if you if you don't have the protections to protect the people that are accused, then we don't have a system. Then we just have a police entity. And you obviously have to be cognizant and considerate of somebody

18:44that's walking any person walks in a courtroom. Aren't there because they're excited. Something fundamentally went wrong, whether it's a criminal, whether it's a victim, whether it's a person of contract dispute, right? Or an automobile accident. It's it's fundamentally a day where they're uneasy and uncomfortable. And you have to be there and you got to balance all of the facts, but you got to follow the law, right? And with that, there's beautiful programs like the reentry court that helps people who are convicted once they get out, get a job and get themselves on their feet. And those are wonderful programs that we need to be proud of. But at the same time, you know, just always tell people we've got to be cognizant that there's victims who are coming in that courtroom, not because they want to be there because something bad happened. Right. And we have to follow the law and we have to hold those people accountable that

19:45victimize people in this community. That's what that's what I think is fundamentally the beauty in the system, balancing both of those hand in hand. So let's talk about your experience with all the cases that you've had. And and and now you've been on you've been on the opposite side of the bench, so to speak, and top of the reentry programs, what are some of the tools that you see using to be able to help reduce recidivism in Jefferson Parish, but at the same time, reduce crime, protect victims and protect our communities. Remember, I think judges are the second line of defense. You know, this first responders, those police officers are the ones getting you scooping them up. But those judges are the ones that have to decide whether they deserve a program, they deserve reentry to society, you know, and protecting victims. Yes, what are some of those programs with those tools that you said? Well, so we talked about the reentry court program. I think it starts with listening. A lot of people, a lot of politicians come

20:49in and you have to ask yourself, why is this person running? If the answer is for myself, for a resume for me, me, me, then you shouldn't be in this job. The job should start with understanding that the people that elected you are the people you're there to serve. So it starts with listening, that's tool number one, tool number two is is remembering and keeping all of the facts in check. For example, we talked about my experience at the D.A.'s office, but I left the D.A.'s office, I prosecuted for the attorney general's office, I did insurance defense. And most recently, and what I'm most proud of is I worked for Sheriff Lupinto, who's the sheriff of Jefferson Parish, defending the law enforcement individuals. And a lot of times, you know, people forget that police officers have families, right, they have to leave in the middle of the night, that they're not guaranteed

21:50coming back, that they're trying to be that first line, right? The defense you were talking about. And I saw that first hand, I saw these men and women sacrifice themselves in their time for us. And seeing that and then knowing that, you know, ultimately they're going to make a case, it's going to end up in front of a judge. And you have to be able to look at those facts and make a tough call and make a tough decision. This is a unique skill set. And I want to focus on this for a second. I interviewed a judicial candidate that for the first time ever actually had was a police officer, you know, Angelina Valerio, Valario, over in on the North Shore. And she had been a police officer for like, I don't know, 10 years or something, plus or minus, you know, and I thought it was very interesting. And we focused on her police experience because here she was a first responder. Yeah, you know, actually on the streets, you know, you know,

22:50you're resting the bad guys. And of course, there you're, you're bringing them to the prosecutor who's going to make the case, you know, and then they got to flip it up to a judge who's got to find the best way. And I felt she has a unique skill skill set. That is interesting to me. How do you think that that skill set with you being, you know, I mean, you're representing the police officer, the Jefferson Parish. You're like once you're like one association away from the criminal because you're representing the police officer who, you know, had their hands on the criminal, so to speak. How is that? How are you making that connection that that might be a good skill set to have? Well, let me give you. So one of the things that I want to tell you about, because people always like, what does a judge do? Most cases that are heard that go to trial are heard by a jury, not by a judge. A judge is going to make calls on illegal issues. But if it goes to trial, it's a jury. Who's on the jury? It's you and me. It's your listeners, it's podcasters.

23:51It's the people all around us. None of them have any legal experience. Do they? They don't, right? They've got life experience. And so the first thing that a judge will do, he will instruct a jury who becomes the judge, say, I want you to bring, this is part of law. I want you to bring your everyday, common life experiences and keep an open mind. That, to me, is what's beautiful about this country is you have lawyers who are arguing a case to us. But I tell you that because in represent the police officers, one of the things that I had to privilege of doing is if there's an officer involved shooting, there's a swat roll, we would get the call. And I would show up to the crime scene, right? Sometimes at night, sometimes in the morning. And I was able to see firsthand the real experience of we always think in a Netflix documentaries. Like, why didn't you find this clue over here or where did you hide this?

24:53Yeah, there's always this kind of what's going on. And when you show up to that first scene, and it's just an act of shooting just happened, you don't know where to look, right? You're, you're trying to make sure a everybody's safe. Be the people that need help and get help. And then you start walking back and start looking for evidence. And evidence doesn't magically pop up, right? You got to, you got to, you got to hope that this is the right way, you got to hope the crime scene's secured. And human beings are doing that. Like, you know, and so when it was interesting for an prosecutor, Toriel Seat, you get the case, you get the police report, the body cam, all that. But when I got the opportunity to go and see what it really looks like, boots on the ground, you know, when you're first getting in there, it's chaotic. And that's why I have a lot of respect for the men and women of law enforcement, because they go in there. And in afterwards, they're criticized, you know, right?

25:54Two, three, sometimes years later, well, why didn't you look for this? You know, it's, well, I'm just making sure this person wasn't bleeding out. But that, that to me, to answer your question, that that's some of the important experience to bring when you're evaluating as a judge and making decisions. So you brought up jury trials, you brought up, you know, you talk about jury, you talked about courtroom, let's talk about your experience into courtroom jury trials and that the kid, you know, what kind of experience have you had in that? Yeah, so like I said, I started traffic court, everything from a traffic ticket to, to ultimately felonies. The last before I left, and I did civil jury trials and civil bench trials and depositions, while I was working for all stated, some policy work at the Capitol, which I'm proud of. One of the things that we did was we worked on drone legislation recently to make sure the drone footage can be admitted into the court quicker. So policemen,

26:57you know, aren't leaving the scene to have to come in test filed. But yet last. Juror try had was a man was accused of raping for women. We try that convicted in St. Bernard had a distribution of math prior to that. Placumins, parish, try that. He got convicted prior to that was St. Charles, St. Charles parish and all the distribution before that. I mean, I'm just trying to think because it all, it all blends in after a long. And see you had some jury trials. Absolutely. Yes. And, and the thing one of my pet peeves, a lot of people put numbers and not names on juror troughs. And when you do that, I think that dehumanizes the person, the victim that went through it, right? Because you, you don't want to be just a statistic, right? Right. Right. You want to people to remember your experience. Exactly. Um, so that's why I say two things. One, you never do

27:59it alone. And you can ask every prosecutor across the state, every policeman, because they've come in and testify. It's always a team. And every case matters to that person. Right. And that's important as a judge to make sure you keep that in mind, that they're not just a statistic, their Marco. Right? Yeah. So Marco, those be the high mark? No, no, no, no, I'm not that important. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not that important. And I'm, well, let me say this, let's do eventually you want Marco to be the mark of the high mark to achieve to maybe that's a campaign slogan. Yeah. Um, no, but, but, but honestly, I think I'm not running. So you can call me judge. So you can kiss a ring or I can get some sort of, I don't either road the gabbell. I fundamentally believe in service to this country. Because if this country didn't take a chance on me and my family, I might have been dead. 1600 kids killed in the city of Sarajevo. I got out. And I got out

29:02because people took a chance of me here. And it would, it would be a tragedy to waste that opportunity. I mean, I could go big law firm, you know, make money, do all that kind of stuff, but, but I feel a calling to pay back a debt for the people that gave us an opportunity. That's why I've been predominantly service my whole career. Well, like what you're saying about that is that a judgeship isn't necessarily it's kind of a unique hybrid of being an elected official and being somebody who just wants to serve. And I don't mean this kind of setting towards judges at all, whatsoever. Please, I don't want to lose my license. No, no, no, this, yeah, but, but it's it was ironic is this is not like you would make a lot more money in the private sector as an attorney. Yeah. So it's almost like while you're you have to be a politician to get elected, there are rules that make running for judge harder than an unregulated official. I mean, if they have a

30:07committee that does your fun raising and stuff like that, I don't want to go down there because I mean, but there's there's a differences in the campaign process between a judgeship and a politician who's running for a political office. But when you get to office, you know, you your commitment to service, I mean, the judgeship is kind of a long use like it ends up in a long career if you're doing the right job. And it's not a lot of pay you can be making more money in the private sector. So I have a tendency to believe judge people weren't for judge when they say they're doing this for service because you kind of know, yeah, if I was a private attorney, I'd be making more money. You know, it's this and that I don't want to talk about money. But I mean, it's, you know, but what was so it used when you said you were doing this for service for country. And you know, and I guess community also, you certainly not doing it for the money or like you said, where the row correct. Correct. And look, I'm not trying to give you an easy lay out. I think it's a good

31:07conversation to have, you know, for people who are looking at just people who are running for judge. Yeah. And look, I jokingly tell people in time, my wife, if I was more of a manly man, I would have enlisted in the military to fully serve but I'm too delicate for that. But yeah, I feel like people from Donald Trump on, right, people want younger judges. I think I have the lifespan of service is longer if you get in, I think the worry sometimes is when they look at somebody that's young, the question always gets is like, well, you know, what life experience do you have? But I feel like I've lived a life in the half, you know, and I think that I think more people need to step up and help this country move forward because there's going to be a time where the next generation has to step up

32:08and help, you know, the everybody and leadership now has been doing a fantastic job, but they're going to need, they're going to need to turn the bucket over to somebody, right? Let's talk about some of these things. You're, you're, you're that, I said earlier to show I talked about, you know, juicy questions or, you know, I, like, you know, just like, like that top of those topics that people, you know, like, you know, we want to sink their teeth into kind of thing, you know, it's like, you know, you're running for a judicial seat, you know, in Jefferson Parish, in a, I'm just saying it's a community, you know, it's not like you're running for us, you know, for a state or a district or whatever, I mean, it's wonderful to do JDC here to Louisiana. But you still have a duty to our constitution, you still have a duty to the community, and you feel it's a chance for you to serve both. And you're bringing in your experience into that. But let's talk about a lot of a lot of people are in the, a lot of judges are in the

33:10country are legislating from the bench. We hear about judges, these, we hear about rogue judges who legislate from the bench, we hear about judges are in the country that are following narratives instead of the constitution, and they are releasing, you know, people who've been arrested, you know, 50 times or whatever the case may be, how will, how, how do you think that you're going to, um, overcome narratives over, still be able to fight for our rights, our constitutional rights, in Jefferson parished. You see, I mean, do you think you, you know, you said your sense, I'm saying what both of this, yeah, absolutely excited about this stuff. Absolutely. No, look, let's on the nerd level, right? If we start there, three separate branches of government, judiciary, right, legislative branch, now obviously the executive, my job, if I'm so fortunate to get elected as a judge, is to stay in my lane. My lane is to read the law, look at the

34:13facts, listen, treat everybody with compassion and dignity. But it's my job to make a difficult decision. Sometimes you, you get, and again, because I want to keep my law license, right, never going to say anything critical of any of the judges or judiciary, but some, some of the stuff I've seen out there is you, you have people that don't take that duty to heart. And sometimes we'll put their heart instead of where their brains and where the facts and the law should be. You got to take yourself out of that. You have to be neutral, because that's, that's the hard part of job. But you also need to make a decision. People don't, don't talk about that enough. And if you get a chance to talk to some practitioners, you'll get, you'll get attorneys all the time will say, you know what, we went in front of this judge, I was just looking for a ruling and they didn't give me a rule. The ruling can be either for

35:13you, it could be against you. But fundamentally, you got to make the rule. Because it's so easy to put your head in the sand, right? Yeah, exactly. So easy to punt something and say out. But, but I think, I think you got to, you got to give it a shot and you got to make a tough decision. So you won't let narratives dictate your, you're going to let the law dictate that. It's funny. You bought three branches. And often time that political, you know, politicians, they get caught up in the narratives. But you're going to be a judge, you know, a young judge that wants to serve, but you're going to be a judge that puts the law first. Absolutely. Let's, let's hop it something else that is, I think, is is a hot topic. A lot of courts were finding, obviously the age of the court, I don't mean the age of the judge that's in them. But there's a lot of courts where these judges have been there forever. Or they, we recycled a lot of other politicians that become judges and they

36:15go through the system. And the court never gets run efficiently. It just kind of, it kind of ages out along with the age of the, the judges that kind of keep, you know, recycling in and out of the system, if you will. And the, and the system in the courts never changed. Now, I don't want to name any names, but this is a positive. There's a judge in Jefferson, Paris that I really admire that has done a lot of really good things in their court to make it more efficient. So I say, well, yeah, absolutely. And I hear a lot of really good things about things he's going to make his court more efficient. And that's, and, but I don't hear of enough judges do that. You're going to be a young judge. Do you see yourself as being being another young judge that's going to do things to run the court more efficiently? And answer that, but also tell the people in the audience how that is going to affect safety in their communities, help be that second line of defender and be able to help protect our constitutional rights at the same time, while you're being

37:16more efficient. Absolutely. And look, I think every candidate you have on here, I guarantee you there's not one single one that said, I'm going to run an inefficient docket, right? Everybody's going to tell you the same thing of we want to run a quick docket with the firm trial date, we want to get people in and out and moving. But what does that really mean? Think about it's a lot of work. It is a lot of work. But think about it from the human standpoint, what if you're one of the cases where it's your child custody or your divorce or a succession, and you're waiting for this decision because it's going to fundamentally change your life. Like if your custody of your child changes, your life's going to change, right? If you don't get an inheritance, your life's going to change. That's why I think the judges and why I think what I want to do is you got to make that decision fairly and quickly so people can move on with their lives, right? They get a finality and they

38:18get to move on to the next chapter. And I think that's the real day to day difference of what being an efficient judge means. Do you have some ideas on what you're going to do to make your your court more efficient? Yes. Yeah, let everybody. It's starting to sell. I thought it's self-reconnaissance. He's a little bit of the cannoli app. Yeah, that's right. No, it starts with me in accountability. It starts with a scheduling order and a firm trial date. Be consistent. That way that no matter whether it's an attorney, a company being sued or an individual, when they walk into the vision after 24 JDC, they're going to know exactly what they're going to expect day to day. They're going to know when that trial date is going to be, when that cutoff's going to be, so they can move on with their risk, loss analysis, we're getting a finality, getting a decision, so getting them a firm trial date. That's the plan.

39:18Well, I love your answers are very succinct into the point. Yes, sorry. Sorry. No, I absolutely love that. It's interesting because when we talk about efficiency, you're being very efficient. In those answers. We're politicians. We all talk too much. Exactly. Exactly. No, you're not a politician. That's right. That's right. That's right. I'm going to feel and you're more about service than you are about politics. 100%. Let's, we've talked about the community. We've talked about narratives affecting judges. We've talked about efficiency a little bit, but you know, there's also a system. And you mentioned other attorneys come in the court. We, and a lot of people, again, see those courts as, you know, a bad guy commits a crime. There was a victim. Bad guy goes into, you know, court is a judge's job to put him away forever. That's what's the terms of good, you know, good judge or bad judge, whether they put the guy away. And that's, I think some misconception, as we've talked about before, it's about people's rights. It's about the constitutional rights about efficient courtrooms.

40:19But let's talk about the system. You've got to operate in a system where you got to work with other judges. If you get elected, you're going to be one of the youngest judges on the bench on the 24th, JDC. So you're going to have to not only, you know, acknowledge experience that they might have, things that you could learn efficiency of other courtrooms. Like I said, you know, Judge Schlagel does a real good job at running an efficient court. I always have very good things about his court. So you've got a lot of balance to do within the system that exists. Have you thought about that much? Yes, yes. And let me just start off just by saying one, one clarity point. I want to be very clear on this. If you commit a crime and you're convicted of a crime, and it's especially if it's against a victim or a child or anything like that, you're going to go to jail. You know, that, I mean, that deserves accountability. You can't let people walk, right? Because you're going to get recidivism. Obviously, you have to balance that with with the rest of the cases and the severity. But but I want

41:21to make sure that, you know, if there is a crime against a child or an individual, there's going to be accountability. But if you're talking about direct efficiency, one of the things that Judge Schlagel does is he's a tech whiz, you know, he's brought technology into the world. He does a wonderful talk on artificial intelligence, AI. And I think AI is going to be the future, whether it's business, but especially the legal profession. And I think that's something that I'm excited to see how it plays out. You know, because we need to monitor that and see where it could be used as a tool. So as a young judge, do you think that you going into the system, you'll be able to recognize inefficiencies that maybe you could bring some some modern world into, we'll just say, are you thin to? But at the same time, will you, are you willing to be able to rely on the knowledge of other judges, if they're

42:23willing to help? I mean, I know, I don't know how that works behind the scenes. You know, is there going to be some, sometimes when you're, when you're willing to work with them in a way that that maybe they can impart some, you know, wisdom from something that you might not have been encountered. I don't know, it's absolutely. And this is the thing that nobody really talks about. You work with others. Hopefully, but but here's a thing nobody talks about. Judges attorneys, they're like doctors, you're going to have spent most of your career doing something and becoming really good at that something like heart surgeons, they're really good at heart surgery. They probably don't know much about cancer, right? I mean, they know, right? But it's the same with lawyers and ultimately, it's the same way with judges. And if you come into this job thinking that you know the full spectrum of the law, then I think shame on you, right, you need to do a job of knowing what you don't know, educating yourself. And obviously, obviously always the senior judges, the the justice always look to them

43:29for advice or, you know, getting a feedback of how to improve how to get better. I don't label myself as perfect. No, as somebody who knows a full spectrum of the law, but I do think I think you need that. You need a full every tool available in your tool chest. So let's let's walk start walking out of the interview a little bit. Sorry. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're going to start walking out. We've been going for quite some time. And, but I want to give you the opportunity, you know, I like the fact that you brought up, because I didn't ask, and you brought it up. And I like that that you said, if someone commits a serious crime, they're going to jail. And, and we've kind of, I, I intentionally didn't bring it up for a while because I do think there's a balance that a lot of people forget that is more judicial. A lot of people think that a good judge is a lot of people up. I've learned through interviewing, you know, hundreds of people running for a judge over the

44:29country and in the judicial system that that a good judge is going to not only look out for is it look out for victims be hard on crime, but also find those opportunities that they can say, Hey, if I'm too heavy handed here, I might cause recidivism and more harm in the community than put a program. And they find that and they have a good, they have a good judge finds the right opportunities and can navigate that system the right way. And we've, and that's why I focus on that. But because you brought it up too, let's talk about what Jefferson parishes want to hear is they love living in Jefferson parishes to safe place. What will you do in your courtroom to make to keep Jefferson parishes safe place? I'm going to hold people accountable and I'm going to follow the law. And just to tell you one of the beautiful things about the law, and this is statewide, if you're a

45:32multiple times offender, like if you've committed three, four, five, seven, eight, the law doesn't let you put somebody on probation, right? You've had your chances. So you have to balance individuals like that with people that maybe made a poor decision and they need to get help. Maybe it's substance abuse, maybe you know, there's something they're struggling with. And that starts with like I told you, listening. So you have to, you have to do both, but to keep people this community safe, you got to follow the law, make the tough decision, you got to lock somebody up, you got to lock somebody up. You hope you know, in the ideal world, you hope everybody, there's no crime, right? Everybody's happy. But when the crime happens and when there needs to be made a tough decision, you got to

46:32put your big boy pants on and make that call. And you're ready to do that? Yes, sir. Any final words for the listeners today? No, thank you so much for the time and I'm sorry, we were long. Oh, we weren't, no, no, no, no, we weren't that long at all. We were probably average on whatever else was been beautiful. You know, you did, you did, you did, I wanted to get the people get a chance to know you. Thank you so much. You know, I think that's what's important. My job isn't, you know, my job is, is just has some good conversation with people to make sure people get to know a person, you know, and you went, they went to other qualifications too, but they want to know people, you know, especially Louisiana, they went to the person. And I think that's, that's very important. But for me, I think the best way to protect our communities is getting in not only good judges, but getting the right elected officials and, and some of that is as simple as just finding out who they are as a person. And I think we found out a lot about you today. And I think it's a good thing. No, I appreciate it. Can't be a robot. You can't live in an ivory tower. You've got

47:33us serve the people that elect you. Awesome. Yes. All right, one more time. The court. Yes, 24 judicial district division F, Marco, M-A-R-K-O, last name, Marie Anovich. I know it's tough to say. Hard name, easy choice. It begins with M, it's got a J. Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Just I'll be the only Marco on the ballot. That's all I need to know. Margo, thank you so much. I appreciate it. And everybody else, please share the interview. If you live in Jefferson Parish, our judges, in my opinion, are some of the most important people that we put into office. And it's it's it's it's it's takes time to be able to go look at what the other judges are doing, not as criticism, but just to kind of as an observation to find out what they're doing right, find out who they are. And then make that comparison to the people that are running for judge now. And and see if the people that are running now can be able to do the job of who's in office. And the reason it's most important, as we've been saying is our judges are our second line of defense, because

48:36they're not only protecting our communities by putting bad people away with need be and and and giving people chances when they need to have one to lower recidivism, but they're protecting our constitutional rights. And if all of these things are important to you, then it's important that you share this interview with a friend or family member who lives in Jefferson Parish, so we can be educated on the people that are running for office. So we can put the right one in. Please share the show like and follow me here William Wallace for America. Thank you again very much. And I'll see you very soon on the next interview got one more coming up. Get all of the benefits from apricot seeds by going to rncstore.com and use that promo code, W W F A to get a discount off your apricot seed order and support my show. Not only do they have apricot seeds, they have a lot of other products that have the beneficial properties of apricot seeds and they have a lot of information and studies to back up their findings and what they will tell you about

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