#001 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Barry Gibbs
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Guests Barry Scheck (Co-Founder of The Innocence Project), exoneree Barry Gibbs and Vanessa Potkin (Director of Post-Conviction Litigation for The Innocence Project) detail the unfathomable odyssey of Barry Gibbs in the bizarre case of The Mafia Cops. Barry was wrongfully convicted of a 1986 second-degree murder in NYC. His conviction was based on misconduct by a NYPD detective, who was later convicted of arranging and committing several murders and cover-ups on behalf of an organized crime family. Barry was incarcerated for 19 years before new evidence led to his release and subsequent exoneration in 2005.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, every episode of this show has been a rollercoaster ride and a powerful emotional |
| 0:08.8 | experience for me. |
| 0:10.8 | None more so in the episode I recorded with Barry Kips, a beautiful, wonderful, warm, |
| 0:18.6 | teddy bear of a man who was roughly convicted in one of the most egregious cases that |
| 0:25.1 | any of us have ever seen and exonerated in one of the most amazing twists of fate. |
| 0:31.1 | You have to listen to his episode to hear the whole thing. |
| 0:34.3 | I can't even paraphrase it. |
| 0:35.8 | But the sad news is, Barry died after battling a illness on March 23rd, 2018. |
| 0:45.2 | Barry, the rest in peace, my friend. |
| 0:47.7 | You're gone, but not forgotten. |
| 0:50.0 | Now please listen to the incredible Barry Kips. |
| 0:55.1 | I came from a beautiful neighborhood. |
| 1:03.3 | I had a beautiful life. |
| 1:05.6 | I went to sleep because September 7th was the first day of my high school year. |
| 1:10.6 | I was going to be a senior. |
| 1:12.2 | At 22 I was set to start college. |
| 1:14.3 | I woke up and my life was never the same again. |
| 1:18.3 | Kips came out with guns drawn and I never saw freedom ever since after that. |
| 1:23.9 | It's like Roach Mode time, once you get in, you know, I get in. |
| 1:30.0 | In 1986 a woman was strangled and her body was dumped from a car on the Bell Parkway in |
| 1:34.2 | Brooklyn, New York City. |
| 1:36.4 | In order to protect the known Mafia associate who was the real suspect in the case, the detective, |
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