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The Case of Sabrina Butler
📻 Episode #158
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 21, 2020
About This Episode
Approaching midnight on April 11th, 1989, 18 year old single mother Sabrina Butler found her 9 month old, Walter, not breathing. A genetic kidney disorder sent a series of events in motion that took Walter’s life and nearly his mother’s along with it.
The Case
Approaching midnight on April 11th, 1989, 18 year old single mother Sabrina Butler found her 9 month old, Walter, not breathing. A genetic kidney disorder sent a series of events in motion that took Walter’s life and nearly his mother’s along with it.
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00:04:55“Speaker 1: And we know that by the time you got to Speaker 1: the hospital it was really too late. They attempted to Speaker 1: resuscitate Walter at the hospital unsuccessfully, And then I have Speaker 1: to say, there are, unfortunately, tragically a lot of cases Speaker 1: like this where people, well meaning people like yourself, apply”
00:18:44“Speaker 3: I had a death date at the time, was July Speaker 3: the second of nineteen ninety, and I didn't know that Speaker 3: the state had to exhaust all state remedies before they Speaker 3: could actually carry out his death sentence. So when that Speaker 3: day came, that was one of the hardest days.”
00:31:20“Speaker 5: that has averaged out at eighty three percent sure. That Speaker 5: means they're aiming to be wrong one time in six Speaker 5: and with six million Americans in the judicial system, the Speaker 5: judges are aiming to put a million innocent people into Speaker 5: prison when they take that as their standard. And as”
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