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The Case of Richard Rosario
📻 Episode #7
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 21, 2016
About This Episode
Richard Rosario was convicted of a murder that took place in the Bronx on June 19, 1996, based on the testimony of two witnesses who had picked his picture out of a book of police photos. There was no other evidence linking him to the crime, and Richard did not know the victim or the…
The Case
Richard Rosario was convicted of a murder that took place in the Bronx on June 19, 1996, based on the testimony of two witnesses who had picked his picture out of a book of police photos. There was no other evidence linking him to the crime, and Richard did not know the victim or the witnesses. On June 30, 1996, after he heard that the authorities were looking for him, he got on a Greyhound bus in Florida, arrived in New York the next day, and voluntarily contacted the police. He named more than a dozen people in Florida who he said would vouch for him including a pastor and a sheriff’s deputy. But the police did not follow up, and prosecutors charged him with murder based on the statements of the two eyewitnesses. Richard was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life. When Richard challenged his conviction in state court in 2004, seven more witnesses appeared to say he had been in Florida around the time of the murder. He was released in 2016 after serving 20 years when the Bronx District Attorney’s office concluded that Richard did not receive a fair trial.
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00:04:36“Speaker 5: my friend was older than me at the time, he Speaker 5: was seventeen years old. His name is Danny and he Speaker 5: died since, but he passed me the wallet and I Speaker 5: took the wallet and I put it in my pocket. Speaker 5: Had the guy's credit cards, and that was my first”
00:16:04“Speaker 5: he gives me Stephen Kaiser and so Stephen Kaiser comes in. Speaker 5: He has no clue of what motion has been approved Speaker 5: and denied. He comes in under the belief that the Speaker 5: investigative funds were denied, no investigation. Speaker 4: And he never asked you.”
00:28:01“Speaker 2: came in and all of a sudden, your faith turned, Speaker 2: your your luck turn around, everything changed. Speaker 1: Because I wanted to make sure that people know these stats. Speaker 5: First, Robert Johnson, who was the DA in the Bronx Speaker 5: for twenty seven years and who is now amazingly a judge.”
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