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The Case of Patrick Brown
📻 Episode #573
🎙️ Hosted by Guest Host Tiffany Reese
📅 May 07, 2026
About This Episode
On February 21, 1994, in New Orleans, LA, a 6-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after complaining of pain and unusual vaginal discharge. The doctors concluded that the young girl had been raped after she tested positive for gonorrhea. The girl was interviewed by authorities without any guardian present, and ended up saying that…
The Case
On February 21, 1994, in New Orleans, LA, a 6-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after complaining of pain and unusual vaginal discharge. The doctors concluded that the young girl had been raped after she tested positive for gonorrhea. The girl was interviewed by authorities without any guardian present, and ended up saying that a family member named Patrick had touched her genitals. Despite there being other probable suspects in the family, 20-year-old Patrick Brown was charged with, and ultimately convicted of aggravated rape, and sentenced to life without parole primarily based on this one interview. Over the next 30 years, the girl continuously contacted the prosecutor’s office stating that they had the wrong guy. Yet, Patrick remained in prison.
Guest host, Tiffany Reese, talks to Patrick Brown and Kelly Orians, Patrick's attorney.
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00:04:26“Speaker 4: Then the relationships stuff like that, and from there to Speaker 4: where it was a beautiful relationship. She had my daughter, Speaker 4: and the whole time she was pregnant, I was just Speaker 4: so protective of her. I don't want nobody to smoke Speaker 4: around her. I don't want nobody doing that. Always pop”
00:18:05“Speaker 3: police disclosed it, that was not was what was actually Speaker 3: said in the doctor's office. So they were able to Speaker 3: introduce the doctor's report with no scrutindy with this statement Speaker 3: that never got to be cross examined. So what happened Speaker 3: then is she never got a chance to tell her story.”
00:30:57“Speaker 3: horror that Sarah endured. He then vacated mister Brown's conviction Speaker 3: and granted mister Brown a new trial, and Emily maw Speaker 3: the Chief of the Civil Rights Division, immediately revised the Speaker 3: bill of information that was filed against him in nineteen Speaker 3: ninety four and immediately dismissed the charges. That day, he”
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