Roger Cossack

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Roger Lee Cossack [1] [2] is a former legal analyst for ESPN, CNN, [3] TruTV, and a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Residence at Pepperdine University School of Law. [4]

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Cossack graduated with a B.A. from UCLA and then graduated with a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law.

After school, he worked as a prosecutor in Los Angeles County, California. His employment with ESPN ended on April 26, 2017. [5]

Cossack also argued in front of the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Leon , a landmark Fourth Amendment decision establishing the "good faith" exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule. [6] A former CNN legal correspondent and anchor, Cossack was co-host of the award-winning legal issues program Burden of Proof with Greta Van Susteren. Over the past decade, he has covered numerous cases, including trials involving O. J. Simpson, Kobe Bryant, Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, Bernie Fine, and Jerry Sandusky. In 2019-2020 Cossack hosted OJ25, a retrospective series about the O. J. Simpson murder trial for Court TV.

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  4. "Faculty & Research - School of Law - Pepperdine University". law.pepperdine.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  5. Roger Cossack [@RogerCossack] (26 April 2017). "Time to go. Thanks to ESPN for allowing me to be their legal analyst for 13 years. Made great friends and have wonderful memories" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  6. "United States v. Leon - The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law". oyez.org. Retrieved 2015-08-12.