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The Case of Pierre Rushing
📻 Episode #405
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 09, 2023
About This Episode
On April 15, 2011, Dawone Taylor was murdered in Oakland, CA over a dispute about an allegedly stolen ipod. Pierre Rushing, a promising young musician who never met Mr. Taylor, was later charged and convicted for the murder primarily on the questionable testimony of a struggling drug addict who was unable to accurately describe Pierre’s…
The Case
On April 15, 2011, Dawone Taylor was murdered in Oakland, CA over a dispute about an allegedly stolen ipod. Pierre Rushing, a promising young musician who never met Mr. Taylor, was later charged and convicted for the murder primarily on the questionable testimony of a struggling drug addict who was unable to accurately describe Pierre’s appearance.
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00:04:57“Speaker 3: Robert Green. We're doing crack cocaine or the day and Speaker 3: a half leading up to this young man's killing, and Speaker 3: Patrick Smith and Robert Green went to an apartment in Speaker 3: Oakland to purchase more crack cocaine. Patrick Smith was driving, Speaker 3: Robert Green stayed in the car while Patrick Smith went”
00:18:35“Speaker 1: to get involved in this case. You must get hit Speaker 1: with cases all the time. Speaker 3: I actually came to represent Pierre after a different attorney, Speaker 3: Stephen Bedrick, who was handling his direct appeal in state court, Speaker 3: also filed the habeas corpus petition in the California State”
00:32:35“Speaker 6: knew the whole time that it wasn't me, and it Speaker 6: just gave validation and what I've been saying the whole Speaker 6: time that I didn't commit this crime and there was Speaker 6: no way that I would have or could have committed Speaker 6: this crime. As well as one of the guys that”
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