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The Case of John "Divine G" Whitfield
📻 Episode #521
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 17, 2025
About This Episode
On March 25, 1988, Harold Wesley shot and killed Jimmy Calibera in a drug deal gone wrong. The crime occurred in front of the Breukelen Houses estates in Brooklyn, NY where John “Divine G” Whitfield lived with his mother and sister. Divine G was scheduled to turn himself in on drug charges in May of…
The Case
On March 25, 1988, Harold Wesley shot and killed Jimmy Calibera in a drug deal gone wrong. The crime occurred in front of the Breukelen Houses estates in Brooklyn, NY where John “Divine G” Whitfield lived with his mother and sister. Divine G was scheduled to turn himself in on drug charges in May of that year, but due to the testimony of an unreliable and incentivized informant, and despite evidence disproving this account, Divine was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 25 to life.
https://chng.it/cX5Fb9vnZk
https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/new-york-discovery/
https://a24films.com/films/sing-sing
https://pen.org/the-whitfeld-files/
https://divinegentertainment.com/shop/
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:05:12“Speaker 3: because as a DJ, I needed money to buy the records, Speaker 3: to buy the equipment, to keep things updated. That was Speaker 3: basically my life before my life, like you said, went Speaker 3: off the rails. And then I got into this accident. Speaker 3: It was severe, woke up in the hospital. It was”
00:19:46“Speaker 1: This was a Brady violation as well as false testimony, Speaker 1: and in addition, Scott Bell gave an affidavit about Doyle's Speaker 1: plan to falsely accused Divine who he didn't like, to Speaker 1: get their charges dismissed, and there was also an affidavit Speaker 1: from the burglary victim, Salmar Sigliano about how he tried”
00:33:51“Speaker 2: So our strategy at this point is we're doing as Speaker 2: much media as we can. We have a petition for Speaker 2: Divine which calls for the Brooklyn District Attorney to order Speaker 2: his conviction of unit, just to make a decision. It's Speaker 2: been seven years. Just make a decision. It's been seven”
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