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The Case of Devonia Inman
📻 Episode #264
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 May 30, 2022
About This Episode
On September 19, 1998, Donna Brown was closing a Taco Bell in Adel, GA after her second day on the job. As she left, she was robbed and fatally shot. Two witnesses, one a jailhouse snitch and one a respondent to a $5000 reward, implicated Devonia Inman. Despite their subsequent recantations, several alibi witnesses and…
The Case
On September 19, 1998, Donna Brown was closing a Taco Bell in Adel, GA after her second day on the job. As she left, she was robbed and fatally shot. Two witnesses, one a jailhouse snitch and one a respondent to a $5000 reward, implicated Devonia Inman. Despite their subsequent recantations, several alibi witnesses and an obvious other suspect, Devonia was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole. The real perpetrator went on to kill two others. Maggie speaks to Devonia Inman, Jessica Cino J.D., Devonia’s advocate, Dinah Ray, his mother and David Ray, his stepfather.
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00:04:17“Speaker 4: Little Divanna dreamed of being in the military, just like Speaker 4: his stepdad, who was stationed in the Army. Speaker 3: I liked to dress up and play army all the time. Speaker 6: Yes, he was putting on my big clothing. Yes, and Speaker 6: we used to just like go out and play with”
00:15:30“Speaker 7: system is that it is absolutely designed to keep you Speaker 7: in prison once you have been found guilty, right that Speaker 7: whole presumption of innocence is gone. So trying to overturn Speaker 7: a conviction is an incredibly high, if not impossible bar. Speaker 4: Davanna says he was prepared to die in prison. Even”
00:27:03“Speaker 3: being in there for so long, it's like you're accustomed Speaker 3: to one way. So when you come out here, people Speaker 3: just misunderstand because they don't know what you've been through Speaker 3: or what you know, what I mean, So it kind Speaker 3: of seems like they seem weird to you, and you”
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