What Brian Bouffard has said about Prairieland Detention Center shooting
2 quotes · 1 episode · Jul 13, 2026
Brian Bouffard, Defense attorney and former Navy JAG, co-counsel to Patrick McLean, has been quoted on Prairieland Detention Center shooting 2 times in 1 episode of This American Life, most recently on July 13, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Brian Bouffard said midway through the trial that the government and its witnesses had made many mistakes.
“my feeling is the government has made a lot of mistakes. Their witnesses have made a lot of mistakes”
This American Life: 891: The Test Case (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 29:08
Brian Bouffard said the jury got the verdict wrong by not properly applying reasonable doubt.
“I think they got it wrong. I think that they, uh... did not parse through reasonable doubt the way that the law would have them do it”
This American Life: 891: The Test Case (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:17
Episodes
891: The Test CaseThis American Life · Jul 13, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
Zoe Chace reports on the federal trial over the July 4 Prairieland Detention Center shooting, where the government tried to prove an Antifa terror cell existed.
Others on Prairieland Detention Center shooting
- Lynette Sharp · 3 quotes
- Ed Kent · 1 quote