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The Case of Ronnie Long
📻 Episode #144
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 29, 2020
About This Episode
On the night of April 25th, 1976, a wealthy, 54 year old widow was burglarized and raped in Concord, North Carolina. What happened next paints a stark picture of American policing and race relations that arguably remains unchanged to this day.
The Case
On the night of April 25th, 1976, a wealthy, 54 year old widow was burglarized and raped in Concord, North Carolina. What happened next paints a stark picture of American policing and race relations that arguably remains unchanged to this day.
https://www.change.org/p/demand-nc-governor-to-commute-ronnie-long-s-sentence-immediately
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom
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00:05:42“Speaker 3: You have a prepaid call. You will not be charged Speaker 3: for this call. This call is from an inmate aunt Speaker 3: Albemarle Correctional Institution. This call will be monitored and recorded. Speaker 3: To accept this call, prins stive now to decline this call. Speaker 3: Thank you for you think Globe Tail link.”
00:21:29“Speaker 1: planted this beanie in the car so that they could Speaker 1: have another you know, well really another there is no Speaker 1: other evidence, so that they could have something that they Speaker 1: could use against him. And I say something they could Speaker 1: use against him, because remember all that evidence Detective Eisenhower”
00:37:36“Speaker 2: came in July of twenty eighteen. The Fourth Circuit Court Speaker 2: of Appeals heard oral arguments in May of twenty nineteen. Speaker 2: A panel entered a decision two to one saying that Speaker 2: Long had failed to demonstrate the materiality of the evidence Speaker 2: since the State Court again was reasonable. That decision came”
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