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The Case of Melissa Lucio
📻 Episode #207
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 09, 2021
About This Episode
On February 17th, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to a residence where they found an unresponsive two-year-old child who subsequently died. Evidence of abuse led to the arrest and conviction of Melissa Lucio, the child’s mother. She was sent to death row where she remains to this day. The DA on the case has since been…
The Case
On February 17th, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to a residence where they found an unresponsive two-year-old child who subsequently died. Evidence of abuse led to the arrest and conviction of Melissa Lucio, the child’s mother. She was sent to death row where she remains to this day. The DA on the case has since been found to be corrupt and is himself serving 13 years in prison for accepting bribes to sway the outcomes of trials.
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00:06:03“Speaker 2: given supervised visits with Child Protective Services with the kids, Speaker 2: and then finally, when Mariah's about two years old, over Thanksgiving, Speaker 2: CPS returned the seven children, who were still minors at Speaker 2: the time, back into the home of Melissa and Roberta. Speaker 2: And so it is from that point until the point”
00:24:38“Speaker 2: beaten repeatedly over a period of weeks or months. But Speaker 2: he did contradict Norma Jean Farley's testimony in the timing Speaker 2: of the head injury that caused her death. Norma Jean Speaker 2: Farley had said that the injury had to have occurred Speaker 2: approximately twenty four hours prior to her death. Doctor Curry,”
00:41:07“Speaker 1: lot of them probably are. And in any case, it's Speaker 1: abundantly clear that almost none of them could have possibly Speaker 1: gotten a fair trial. And Melissa absolutely did not get Speaker 1: what she is constitutionally guaranteed, which is a fair trial. Speaker 1: And what I find particularly shocking is that Gilman hasn't”
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Also on the podcast: #253 Jason Flom on Melissa Lucio · #459 Melissa Calusinski