This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

E464 - Castle Rock v. Gonzales: Do Police Have a Duty to Protect You? | Part 2

Published: September 17, 2026

Duration: 59:40

TW: Child Murder
Part 2 picks up exactly where we left Jessica. What happened that night — and everything she did afterward — would take her all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and raise a question most people assume they already know the answer to: do police actually have to protect you, even when you have a court order in hand?

Nikita — an attorney herself — takes us through how the Court got there, what the justices actually decided, and the reasoning behind a ruling that still shapes what we expect from police today.

Then we widen...