"What is the true story here? The defense attorney, who's a public defender, her name is Mary K. High, so she's paid for by taxpayer funds," Kruse said on the show. "She works for the public defender's office in Pierce County. She's been submitting a series of pre-sentencing memorandum that makes one argument about why the judge should give Joshua Ellis the lowest possible sentence for domestic violence, homicide. And that argument is because he's black."