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The Case of Terrence Hobbs
📻 Episode #319
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Dec 22, 2022
About This Episode
One month apart in 1996, two crimes occurred in Portsmouth, VA. Terrence Hobbs was arrested and convicted for both of them, but he committed neither. In the first, two individuals were shot and killed, and in the second, a bank robbery occurred that hurt no one. Terrence’s ex-girlfriend was a victim of the double murder,…
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The Case
One month apart in 1996, two crimes occurred in Portsmouth, VA. Terrence Hobbs was arrested and convicted for both of them, but he committed neither. In the first, two individuals were shot and killed, and in the second, a bank robbery occurred that hurt no one. Terrence’s ex-girlfriend was a victim of the double murder, and prosecutors fell back on the convenient assumption that the ex-boyfriend was jealous and must have been responsible. Once a few convicted felons were offered and ultimately given mercy in the form of sentence reductions for their own crimes, prosecutors had what they needed to connect Terrence to and incriminate him for the crimes. Despite solid alibis and an entire lack of physical evidence tying Terrence to either crime, Terrence was convicted, and is currently serving multiple life sentences.
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00:07:14“Speaker 1: himself out. Maybe he put up the whole million, I Speaker 1: don't know, but one way another he was loaded. He Speaker 1: was making more money in a month than most of Speaker 1: the police officers were making in the year at that Speaker 1: time back in Portsmouth, so clearly, had he chosen to”
00:26:33“Speaker 2: given three years and thirty days for the attempted bank robber, Speaker 2: re imporcement, the juse of farms and the commission of Speaker 2: a felony, and the attempted capital murder of a police officer. Speaker 1: Jesus, I mean even the attempted murder of a police”
00:45:40“Speaker 1: at the second trial were these inconsistent and patently and Speaker 1: obviously false statements from these incentivized witnesses. Was all of Speaker 1: that pointed out to them? Speaker 2: Yes, all of this stuff was pointed out, But to Speaker 2: say the fact that the matter is a lot of”
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