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The Case of Gary Benloss
📻 Episode #495
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 21, 2024
About This Episode
UPDATE- Gary Benloss walked out of prison on November 20th, 2024, after 22.5 years. Jason was there to greet him.
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The Case
UPDATE- Gary Benloss walked out of prison on November 20th, 2024, after 22.5 years. Jason was there to greet him.
On April 10, 2002, Victor Vulcain was shot and killed in broad daylight in front of 201 Linden Blvd. Brooklyn, NY. There were several witnesses, each of whom provided a version of events to police that stood in conflict with the other witnesses; not even their descriptions of the shooter matched. No murder weapon was ever recovered, and no DNA evidence connected Gary to the murder. Yet, Gary was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life.
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00:06:32“Speaker 1: crab a guy with a record, whether they did a Speaker 1: crime or not. And as our listeners will surely recognize, Brooklyn, Speaker 1: especially in the eighties, nineties and into the two thousands, Speaker 1: was fraught with wrongful conviction cases and issues like I Speaker 1: wouldn't submits identification, coerced and incentifized witnesses who made misidentifications,”
00:26:09“Speaker 2: at trial and at the grand jury she wasn't sure. Speaker 2: But then at the time of when she's viewing the lineup, Speaker 2: I am presented with the shallow cap that's hid in Speaker 2: my ear and with some clothing that's close enough to Speaker 2: what the shooter had on the day of the crime.”
00:45:33“Speaker 3: average American citizens because they need to understand that this Speaker 3: could be you, because it could be you, It could Speaker 3: be your son, it could be your daughter, it could Speaker 3: it could be anybody. It could be you, and people Speaker 3: need to stop acting like that that's not a fact.”
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