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The Case of Darien Harris
📻 Episode #447
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 09, 2024
About This Episode
On the evening of June 7, 2011, police responded to a shooting at a gas station in Chicago, IL, and found one victim dead and another wounded. Relying on various conflicting statements from eyewitnesses, and questionable incoming tips, police focused on 18-year-old Darien Harris as their main suspect. Some eyewitnesses identified Darien in a photo…
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The Case
On the evening of June 7, 2011, police responded to a shooting at a gas station in Chicago, IL, and found one victim dead and another wounded. Relying on various conflicting statements from eyewitnesses, and questionable incoming tips, police focused on 18-year-old Darien Harris as their main suspect. Some eyewitnesses identified Darien in a photo line-up while others did not. Nevertheless Darien was sentenced to 76 years in prison for the shooting with no physical evidence tying him to the crime.
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00:05:05“Speaker 1: later made identifications and gave their own versions of events. Luckily, Speaker 1: there was surveillance footage. Speaker 2: There is surveillance video of the crime. You can't make Speaker 2: out much about the person committing the crime, you can't Speaker 2: see his face, but you can learn some details that”
00:19:07“Speaker 2: issues with, that and he starts looking at the state Speaker 2: and this is all on the, record it's in the, Speaker 2: transcripts and the defense council says to the, judge can Speaker 2: you order him to? Answer he keeps looking at the Speaker 2: state and the Witness dexter, SAYS i thought that medical”
00:32:11“Speaker 3: Blind it's a podcast for me to give a platform Speaker 3: to everybody that's incoscerated all over the world to call Speaker 3: in and tell their, story rather they was wrongfully, convicted Speaker 3: or the trauma that they're going through a jail all Speaker 3: the way the police treating, them or they just want”
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Also on the podcast: #49 Leroy Harris · #539 Cal Harris