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The Case of Rob Will
📻 Episode #179
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 06, 2021
About This Episode
At sunrise on December 4th, 2000, sheriff’s deputies rolled up on Rob Will and Michael Allen Rosario as they stripped hubcaps in North Houston. One of them thought escaping responsibility for this petty crime was more important than Deputy Barrett Hill’s life.
The Case
At sunrise on December 4th, 2000, sheriff’s deputies rolled up on Rob Will and Michael Allen Rosario as they stripped hubcaps in North Houston. One of them thought escaping responsibility for this petty crime was more important than Deputy Barrett Hill’s life.
https://www.freerobwill.org/
https://www.change.org/p/free-rob-will-an-innocent-man-on-texas-death-row
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/texas-execute-innocent-man-criminal-justice-944195/
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:15“Speaker 3: even on a commit this murder. No, I'm responsible for Speaker 3: engaging in activity I should have known, could have lived Speaker 3: the bad things. Then I'd be taken away from my son. Speaker 2: Today we have with us. Speaker 1: Sammy Khalil Now Sammy is a former assistant Federal Public Defender,”
00:17:54“Speaker 4: Some of them did, but we didn't have a lot Speaker 4: of contact until he got older. He came to see Speaker 4: me after he turned eighteen, and it's just like, wow, man, Speaker 3: He's like six foot what's you know? I wear a Speaker 3: size twelve se right, you wear size thirteen. I stand”
00:31:14“Speaker 4: it's about me, but it's about my family and it's Speaker 4: about the criminal justice system as a whole. You know, Speaker 4: there are law professors who are like academic commentators who say, well, yeah, Speaker 4: we probably executed four. Speaker 3: Or five incent people in Texas. It's not okay. It's”
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