📜 The Glitched Gavel S01E07: The United States vs. The Former Vice President (The Aaron Burr Trial)

Gavel (The Narrator/Prosecutor): "Richmond, Virginia, 1807. Just three years after killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr stands accused of the gravest crime in the republic: treason. The charge, brought by his former political ally and current President, Thomas Jefferson, alleged that Burr plotted to raise an army, seize territories, and carve out a new empire in the American West. The court was less about the evidence and more about the bitter score-settling between two founding fathers." (A sharp, high-pitched whine cuts through Gavel's voice, like a modem handshake that fails.)

Static (The Analyst/Defense): "This was a trial of political theatre, ...