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The Case of Andre Hatchett
📻 Episode #57
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 14, 2018
About This Episode
Andre Hatchett spent half of his life in prison for a murder he did not commit largely due to inadequate defense, a single unreliable witness, and exculpatory evidence that was not disclosed to the defense. He was the 19th person to be exonerated under Brooklyn D.A. Ken Thompson's Conviction Integrity Unit. Andre Hatchett is joined…
The Case
Andre Hatchett spent half of his life in prison for a murder he did not commit largely due to inadequate defense, a single unreliable witness, and exculpatory evidence that was not disclosed to the defense. He was the 19th person to be exonerated under Brooklyn D.A. Ken Thompson's Conviction Integrity Unit. Andre Hatchett is joined by Senior Staff Attorney at the Innocence Project Seema Saifee and his brother Jerry Hatchett in this episode.
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00:05:56“Speaker 5: bit about the crime and why it's so preposterous that Speaker 5: anyone could have ever identified or prosecuted or convicted Andrea Speaker 5: of a crime that it is physically impossible. Forget the Speaker 5: fact that the alby witnesses and everything else, but it Speaker 5: was also physically impossible that he would have committed this crime.”
00:23:29“Speaker 8: five years when you get home. He looked at my mother, Speaker 8: he said, Ma, I did not do it. Speaker 5: And see, let's talk about that for a second too, Speaker 5: because there's no prosecutor that's gonna look at this case, Speaker 5: which is so violent and so vile, what was done”
00:39:20“Speaker 7: the day one I've been there. The police beat me up. Speaker 7: You get my own d I report. I smiled him Speaker 9: They could never rob him of his smile. You saw the. Speaker 3: Smile and the bloody, and I was bloody. Speaker 7: My sister got pictures of me, meant to the day”
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