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The Case of Robert Almodovar at the 2024 Innocence Conference
📻 Episode #457
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 20, 2024
About This Episode
Shortly before 1 a.m. on September 1, 1994, a car pulled up in front of an apartment building in Chicago, IL and a passenger fired several gunshots at a group of people, killing two and injuring a third. Notorious police detective Reynaldo Guevara was assigned the case and claimed that surviving eyewitnesses identified 19-year-old Roberto…
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The Case
Shortly before 1 a.m. on September 1, 1994, a car pulled up in front of an apartment building in Chicago, IL and a passenger fired several gunshots at a group of people, killing two and injuring a third. Notorious police detective Reynaldo Guevara was assigned the case and claimed that surviving eyewitnesses identified 19-year-old Roberto Almodovar and 17-year-old William Negron as the perpetrators. Despite no physical evidence tying either man to the crime, both men were sentenced to life in prison without parole for the shooting.
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00:04:26“Speaker 3: living in Lan King's neighborhood, and then when my father Speaker 3: lived at my grandfather's house, you know folks area, its dragons. Speaker 3: You know, also a quiet kid, laid back. You know, Speaker 3: I never got to no trouble and then as I Speaker 3: got older in my teens, that's when, you know, the”
00:16:21“Speaker 2: Right, And there's no bail. They give us no bail, Speaker 2: no bail at all. Speaker 1: Okay, So now now you're in there for fourteen months Speaker 1: awaiting trial. Speaker 2: Right, First of all, stay attorney was sticking at death. Speaker 4: Pending on a nineteen year old with no criminal history.”
00:28:45“Speaker 4: remember it going down that way. Oh well, A former Speaker 4: US attorney and an assistant States Attorney under Oath said Speaker 4: something different, but you should have this. Speaker 1: You held him in contempt. Speaker 5: I did. I held him in contempt. Speaker 1: So finally, when did you actually walk out.”
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Also on the podcast: #21 Floyd Bledsoe and Cornelius Dupree (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017) · #22 Kristine Bunch and Obie Anthony (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017) · #28 Robert Jones