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The Case of Kiera Newsome
📻 Episode #183
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 03, 2021
About This Episode
On the day after Easter 2001 in South Central, LA, a female 11 Deuce Hoover fired into a group of Blocc Crips, wounding one and killing another. Even though Kiera Newsome was in class at the time and avoided gangs entirely, the unending Crip-Hoover rivalry took both her boyfriend’s life and eventually 19 years of…
The Case
On the day after Easter 2001 in South Central, LA, a female 11 Deuce Hoover fired into a group of Blocc Crips, wounding one and killing another. Even though Kiera Newsome was in class at the time and avoided gangs entirely, the unending Crip-Hoover rivalry took both her boyfriend’s life and eventually 19 years of her own.
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00:05:18“Speaker 3: looking at us. When we turned around, these guys were Speaker 3: no longer in a car. One was on a sidewalk, Speaker 3: one was standing in the street. They both had their Speaker 3: arms posted to us, and they had something covering their arms, Speaker 3: and you can hear the gunshots. Markel pushed me out”
00:20:02“Speaker 1: full of chuckles from the other officers. Speaker 4: I sometimes think that the police never actually wanted Kiera Speaker 4: to go down for this murder, but they were hoping Speaker 4: that if they put her in terror, in fear of Speaker 4: her life, that eventually Kiera would break and she would”
00:33:55“Speaker 4: went through every piece of evidence there and I made Speaker 4: the case that Kiara Newsom was innocent. At the end Speaker 4: of that then the investigators said thank you very much. Speaker 4: And that's the last I heard until on Christmas Eve, Speaker 4: Christina Lindquist and the Governor's office called me up and said,”
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