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The Case of Pedro Reynoso
📻 Episode #510
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 30, 2025
About This Episode
On July 23rd, 1991, Carlos Torres and Charles Rivera were shot and killed while in a car in North Philadelphia, PA. One witness who later recanted identified Pedro Reynoso as the shooter. Despite 2 alibi witnesses, travel documents and pictures showing that Pedro was in the Dominican Republic at the time of the shooting, he…
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The Case
On July 23rd, 1991, Carlos Torres and Charles Rivera were shot and killed while in a car in North Philadelphia, PA. One witness who later recanted identified Pedro Reynoso as the shooter. Despite 2 alibi witnesses, travel documents and pictures showing that Pedro was in the Dominican Republic at the time of the shooting, he was charged, convicted and sentenced to life without parole.
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00:05:23“Speaker 2: drugs from the Dominican right on and married to Marisol. Speaker 2: Both files also contained evidence that Charles Rivere, Carlos Torres, Speaker 2: andjan Andeno had an ongoing dispute with the Dominicans and Speaker 2: that they shot at the Dominicans, particularly Tweto, in the Speaker 2: days leading up to this shooting. So there's this back”
00:20:38“Speaker 2: And five. Once in Samanna, Pedro drove to Pimento, the Speaker 2: town and the DR where his family lives, where he Speaker 2: arrived in time for his son's late morning early afternoon Speaker 2: baptism on July twenty seventh, nineteen ninety one. And I Speaker 2: believe the travel time between Samanna and Pimento is two hours.”
00:34:53“Speaker 1: Brady material, the CiU chose to get stuck on Pedro's Speaker 1: fabricated passport stamps and the reasonable story of maintaining his Speaker 1: immigration status while taking care of his sick mother, so Speaker 1: they resumed the federal habeas proceedings. Speaker 2: There's two primary federal claims. You know, trial counsel was”
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