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The Case of James Gibson
📻 Episode #421
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 25, 2024
About This Episode
On December 22, 1989, two men were fatally shot at a garage on the south side of Chicago, IL. Twenty-three-year-old James Gibson was falsely implicated in the shooting and severely beaten by local police officers. After brutal interrogations and despite no physical evidence tying him to the crime, James was sentenced to life in prison…
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The Case
On December 22, 1989, two men were fatally shot at a garage on the south side of Chicago, IL. Twenty-three-year-old James Gibson was falsely implicated in the shooting and severely beaten by local police officers. After brutal interrogations and despite no physical evidence tying him to the crime, James was sentenced to life in prison for the murders.
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00:06:10“Speaker 2: entered in my mother's home in South Side Chicago and Speaker 2: raided the house and arrested my brother, my eldest brother, Speaker 2: Harold Gibson, and several other guys in the neighborhood. Speaker 1: So, according to the Midnight Crew, a nameless, faceless source Speaker 1: and quote unquote word on the street is what led”
00:21:12“Speaker 2: got killed. Man. Do you take a jury trial? Man? Speaker 2: They gonna put your ass on death roll? Man, He say, Man, Speaker 2: take a bitch trial, man, you can beat this man. Speaker 2: He tried to convince me that judge never was a”
00:35:14“Speaker 2: good news and we got bad news. Which one do Speaker 2: you want to hear? And then I said, man, I Speaker 2: don't care what y'all got. Man, I'm ready to go Speaker 2: to court, let's do this, and they'd like be dropping Speaker 2: the charges and I said, that's good news because I”
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