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The Case of False Confessions - Ricky Davis
📻 Episode #173
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 23, 2020
About This Episode
One woman was forced to talk. The other was forced to listen. Both were powerless.
The Case
One woman was forced to talk. The other was forced to listen. Both were powerless.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about a California man named Ricky Davis. In 1985, Ricky and his girlfriend, Connie, found their roommate brutally stabbed to death. Without any leads, the case went cold for 14 years until detectives convinced Connie that she had repressed memories of Ricky committing the crime.
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00:03:43“Speaker 1: but he wasn't into harder stuff, and Maureen worried that Speaker 1: Connie would drag Ricky into trouble. But unlike Ricky, Connie Speaker 1: didn't have a stable home. Sometimes she had no home Speaker 1: at all and slept in her car. Once she and Speaker 1: Ricky started dating, Connie often spent the night at Rickey's house,”
00:15:17“Speaker 2: have if they were real memories, and we see that Speaker 2: throughout Connie's interrogation. Speaker 1: Telling LYE. When Connie's not fed information, she can't get Speaker 1: anything about the story right. She's not able to tell Speaker 1: the police what the murder weapon looked like, where Ricky”
00:26:31“Speaker 1: Ricky's attorneys filed a post conviction petition based on this Speaker 1: new evidence. In twenty nineteen, the court threw out Ricky's conviction. Speaker 1: That was great news, but Ricky's fight wasn't over. Even Speaker 1: though the DNA excluded Ricky prosecutors weren't ready to drop Speaker 1: charges until they knew whose DNA it was, so they”
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