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The Case of James Davis
📻 Episode #205
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 02, 2021
About This Episode
This is an updated episode that originally aired on August 12, 2020.
The Case
This is an updated episode that originally aired on August 12, 2020.
On January 24th, 2004, a party at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple devolved into violence, resulting in one man’s death. Before the violence erupted, an overserved young man left the party into the care of his new girlfriend - only to become the murder suspect on the word of his jilted ex. Despite zero physical evidence and an unreliable eye witness, James Davis was convicted of murder and sentenced to 18 years to life thanks to shoddy defense lawyers.
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00:04:31“Speaker 1: Elizabeth, take us back to January twenty fourth, two thousand Speaker 1: and four. What happened that faithful night? Speaker 3: Okay, So January twenty fourth was his brother Daniel's birthday, Speaker 3: and Daniel wanted to go to a party that was Speaker 3: being held at a Masonic temple lodge where they hosted events.”
00:17:40“Speaker 1: had substandard defense, you still ended up with an eleven Speaker 1: to one hungury in favor of a quittle. Speaker 4: You have this this one guy, Jose Machikoti, who's laying Speaker 4: the cause of this fight on his brother in law. Well, Speaker 4: the two prosecutors witnesses beside him, I say and that”
00:30:48“Speaker 3: and we asked him, well, how is it that you Speaker 3: remember that he was there, and he said, so, I Speaker 3: remember when he came in and I was joking about Speaker 3: whose waves were better. So, unprompted, he basically said he Speaker 3: had short hair at the time. And he also said”
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