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The Case of Jace Washington
📻 Episode #309
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 17, 2022
About This Episode
On April 29, 2007, six undocumented immigrants from El Salvador were living in a trailer in Slidell, LA when they were robbed at gunpoint. The robbery went awry and Jose Carlos Matinez-Carpio was shot and killed. Two men were arrested for the killing and one of the men, Edric Cooper, implicated Jace Washington in an…
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The Case
On April 29, 2007, six undocumented immigrants from El Salvador were living in a trailer in Slidell, LA when they were robbed at gunpoint. The robbery went awry and Jose Carlos Matinez-Carpio was shot and killed. Two men were arrested for the killing and one of the men, Edric Cooper, implicated Jace Washington in an effort to earn leniency from the state. Jace had no prior criminal record, and no physical or forensic evidence pointed to him. Nevertheless, Jace Washington was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
https://izzyafriyie.com/jace-washington/
https://www.change.org/p/st-tammany-parish-district-attorney-office-and-louisiana-department-of-justice-please-help-me-bring-my-son-jace-colby-washington-home
https://izzyafriyie.com/petition-to-free-innocent-man-jace-washington/
https://friendsofjustice.blog/2021/07/17/jace-washington-and-the-monsters-of-saint-tammany/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMS-0ynDS14
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:08:10“Speaker 1: he said, quote, we will not coddle that trash in Speaker 1: Saint Tammany Parish. If you're going to walk the streets Speaker 1: with dreadlocks and chewy hairstyles, then you can expect to Speaker 1: get a visit from a sheriff's deputy. Speaker 3: Everybody knew who he was talking about. It was the”
00:30:11“Speaker 2: dedignated and fabricated. She fabricated witnesses statements evidence. She changes Speaker 2: the descriptions into our witnesses guilds. She changes things that Speaker 2: Cooper tells her. She just changes things throughout her investigative Speaker 2: report to make their investigations seem tighter. And what she's Speaker 2: saying in her report and the investigations done by the detectives,”
00:52:03“Speaker 1: before trial. Is that right? Speaker 4: Yes? This is August twentieth, so if I'm reading the Speaker 4: date right, this was probably before Jason's trial on August twentieth, Speaker 4: two thousand and nine, where Cooper signed an affidavit that Speaker 4: he was ready to present to the court to say”
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