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The Case of Ru-El Sailor
📻 Episode #191
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 31, 2021
About This Episode
A night out in November 2002 turned deadly when Nicole Hubbard called for her protective older brother Cordell. Then, Ru-El Sailor took the fall for his best friend’s violence with the help of a vindictive vice detective.
The Case
A night out in November 2002 turned deadly when Nicole Hubbard called for her protective older brother Cordell. Then, Ru-El Sailor took the fall for his best friend’s violence with the help of a vindictive vice detective.
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00:03:45“Speaker 3: entire school year up until high school. So he was Speaker 3: always best friends and Jennifer. Speaker 1: This started from a drug deal gone bad, right, but Speaker 1: a very minor drug deal at that And this goes Speaker 1: back to the night of November sixteenth of two thousand”
00:14:42“Speaker 1: he wasn't even there. Speaker 3: So I have to follow a new trial motion based Speaker 3: on Cordell's affidavit amanting to this crime. We sent subpoenas Speaker 3: to William Sizemore. So we have this retrial here where Speaker 3: we present all to the courts. Cordeal takes the stand”
00:24:56“Speaker 3: get you a new trial, starty, It might take a year, Speaker 3: it might take two years, who knows, but you can Speaker 3: go home right now. Did you say you take these Speaker 3: ten years time? Serve? So I agreed to it, even Speaker 3: though I know it wasn't right. I agreed to it”
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