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The Case of George Toca
📻 Episode #391
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 21, 2023
About This Episode
On April 23, 1984 a couple was robbed at gunpoint by two perpetrators outside a convenience store in New Orleans, LA. The couple fought back, which resulted in one of the robbers – Eric Batiste – being accidentally shot and killed by his partner. An officer assumed that since Batiste and 17-year-old George Toca were…
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The Case
On April 23, 1984 a couple was robbed at gunpoint by two perpetrators outside a convenience store in New Orleans, LA. The couple fought back, which resulted in one of the robbers – Eric Batiste – being accidentally shot and killed by his partner. An officer assumed that since Batiste and 17-year-old George Toca were best friends, that George was the other robber. The couple’s description of Batiste’s partner was nothing like George, but they still selected him from a photo lineup and he was ultimately convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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00:04:28“Speaker 2: And then we began to go to life of crime. Speaker 2: The tap dancing and the shin sho wasn't bringing in Speaker 2: much money, so we were begin to see the other Speaker 2: guys around our neighb would come in crimes, and so Speaker 2: we started doing that work around bringing in like machines”
00:17:37“Speaker 1: to have an impact on people, right, Yeah. Speaker 3: And I think when they heard the evidence about this older, Speaker 3: this older, taller person with son, they you know, they Speaker 3: already knew it wasn't George because they knew George wouldn't Speaker 3: like of them if he'd been responsible for Eric's death.”
00:30:22“Speaker 1: he otherwise receive justice on his innocent's claim in trial errors? Speaker 1: Who knows how much more time he would have spent Speaker 1: an Angola. So he took the deal in front of him, Speaker 1: as I think I and probably almost all of our”
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