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The Case of Keyontay Ricks
📻 Episode #159
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 28, 2020
About This Episode
After being wrongfully convicted for the first time as a child and paroled from juvie, Keyontay Ricks got involved with mentoring at risk kids, including a 14 year old weed dealer named Kurtel Walker. Kurtel and one of his customers conjured up a plot to settle a drug debt through the customer’s workplace, and their…
The Case
After being wrongfully convicted for the first time as a child and paroled from juvie, Keyontay Ricks got involved with mentoring at risk kids, including a 14 year old weed dealer named Kurtel Walker. Kurtel and one of his customers conjured up a plot to settle a drug debt through the customer’s workplace, and their combined behavior got pinned on Keyontay when a racist cop decided to abuse his power.
https://www.change.org/p/attorney-general-racist-amherst-police-officer-being-charged-perjury-for-falsely-testifying-under-oath
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00:06:34“Speaker 2: from family, you can't be around your loved ones. Speaker 1: And I mean at fourteen, a lot of kids have Speaker 1: trouble adjusting the summer camp. Speaker 2: I was putting the jungle when I had to survive Speaker 2: in it. So you know that week get took an”
00:24:00“Speaker 1: ten thirty, then to his grand jury testimony, and then Speaker 1: to the Huntly map hearing, and all the while the judge, Speaker 1: the DA and everyone else is finding ways to find Speaker 1: him believable. Great, now we move on to the trial. Speaker 2: Okay. Now, during trial, Officer Brown had a complete three”
00:41:35“Speaker 2: and they're the ones who recovered it. Listen where it Speaker 2: gets crazy, though, because the Buffalo booking report shows that Speaker 2: absolutely nothing was taken from me. That means that none Speaker 2: of the prosecution witnesses ever recovered any stolen money, any Speaker 2: stolen checks or anything. I ended up finding a police report.”
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