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The Case of Alan Beaman - Part 2
📻 Episode #460
🎙️ Hosted by Lauren Bright Pacheco
📅 Jul 01, 2024
About This Episode
In Part 1, the Beaman family’s lives were torn apart by Alan’s wrongful conviction for the murder of Jennifer Lockmiller. It would take 13 years and the best legal team they could find to finally get Alan out of prison. But the story never ends when a wrongfully convicted person is released. Alan’s wife Gretchen…
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The Case
In Part 1, the Beaman family’s lives were torn apart by Alan’s wrongful conviction for the murder of Jennifer Lockmiller. It would take 13 years and the best legal team they could find to finally get Alan out of prison. But the story never ends when a wrongfully convicted person is released. Alan’s wife Gretchen joins the conversation to discuss the ripple effects of American Injustice, even decades later.
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00:05:40“Speaker 4: wasn't any bodybuilding kind of thing at that point. So Speaker 4: fear for his safety and Manard was so far away Speaker 4: from our home. It was actually a two day trip Speaker 4: for us. We would go part way down and then Speaker 4: after work on Friday and then finish it on Saturday.”
00:21:16“Speaker 1: withheld exculpatory evidence that would have been likely to have Speaker 1: changed the jury's verdict of guilty. And after thirteen years Speaker 1: in prison for a murder that you did not commit, Speaker 1: you walked out of jail on June twenty seventh, two Speaker 1: thousand and eight, wearing a Chicago Bears T shirt, jeans,”
00:35:53“Speaker 1: into the injustices that many other sections of our society Speaker 1: face on a daily basis. I love that in your union, Speaker 1: in your marriage, you in a way got some of Speaker 1: that lost time back, Alan, because you had your beautiful daughter,”
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