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The Case of False Confessions - Daniel Villegas
📻 Episode #381
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 31, 2023
About This Episode
How can one man save the life of a perfect stranger?
The Case
How can one man save the life of a perfect stranger?
The case of Daniel Villegas shows how ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference in the fight against wrongful convictions. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell the story of an unexpected hero who fought for years to turn tragedy into triumph, ending in one of the most dramatic courtroom exonerations ever seen.
This updated episode shares the great work that Daniel is doing today to pay it forward.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:34“Speaker 1: All of them were good kids, none of them were Speaker 1: caught up in gangs or the street life. But they Speaker 1: ran into trouble anyway. At the intersection of Electric Street Speaker 1: and trans Mountain Road. That's where a maroon car with Speaker 1: tinted windows rolls up behind them and starts following them. Slowly. Now,”
00:16:57“Speaker 1: Because John is a guy who believes in second chances. Speaker 1: One day in two thousand and five, John Mabella walks Speaker 1: into an El Paso bank and he ends up asking Speaker 1: his teller, a woman named Lucy, out on a date. Speaker 3: Six months later, we're buried. Lucy had three daughters with”
00:29:32“Speaker 1: and then we'll let you out. Now this is an Speaker 1: easier decision when it came to Damien, he was on Speaker 1: death row, but Jason, who had been sentenced to life Speaker 1: in prison, wrestled with it. He didn't want to admit Speaker 1: to a crime. He didn't commit even to secure his”
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