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The Case of Elvis Brooks
📻 Episode #317
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Dec 15, 2022
About This Episode
On July 1, 1977, the Welcome Inn bar in New Orleans, LA was robbed by two armed men and a bar patron, Cecil Lloyd, was killed. Weeks after the crime, 19 year old Elvis Brooks became a suspect when he was identified in a photo array by three strangers who had been inside the bar…
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The Case
On July 1, 1977, the Welcome Inn bar in New Orleans, LA was robbed by two armed men and a bar patron, Cecil Lloyd, was killed. Weeks after the crime, 19 year old Elvis Brooks became a suspect when he was identified in a photo array by three strangers who had been inside the bar at the time of the robbery. But during the crime, the robbers touched two beer cans inside the bar and left them on the counter after they fled. Investigators from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) collected fingerprints from these beer cans as evidence. The results excluded Elvis. Yet and still, he was charged, convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
https://www.mightycause.com/story/Elvisbrooksfreed
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https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/s1e4-orlean-s-parish-district-attorney-jason-williams-on-criminal-justice-reform/
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00:05:21“Speaker 1: would threaten you with bogus charges to enforce some sort Speaker 1: of an unofficial curfew that they made just for you. Speaker 1: And it turns out that you should have taken those Speaker 1: threats seriously. Now, this wasn't the detective in the case Speaker 1: we're here to discuss today, but this guy did do”
00:20:51“Speaker 2: the jury chose to believe four white witnesses who had Speaker 2: been drinking in a dimly lit bar, oh for thirteen Speaker 2: black witnesses who described almost to a t, the alibi Speaker 2: that mister Brooks had that night. They all explained how Speaker 2: they had come to be at the Brooks house that evening,”
00:35:52“Speaker 1: And once the state was forced to look At elvis's, Speaker 1: case they must have realized what had. Happened and this Speaker 1: was The leon khannis our. Administration, still so instead of Speaker 1: doing the right, thing on the eve of An october, Speaker 1: fifteenth twenty nineteen, hearing they Brought elvis a. Deal they”
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