#067 Jason Flom with Luis Vargas
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In 1999, Luis Vargas was convicted and sentenced to fifty-five years to life in prison for three sexual assaults. He was accused of being the notorious “teardrop rapist,” a methodical serial rapist that terrorized women in Los Angeles. The real “teardrop rapist” would attack over 30 victims. Luis Vargas is joined by his lawyer, Justin Brooks, director of the California Innocence Project.
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| 0:00.0 | I've never been in trouble in my life. I didn't even have a parking ticket. I was brought up like cops or the good guys. |
| 0:09.0 | I didn't know what was going to happen, but I do know that everything was stacked against me. Everything, like everything. |
| 0:17.0 | This isn't supposed to happen this way. I'm innocent. I know I'm innocent. I know I had nothing to do with this. |
| 0:25.0 | How is this possible? |
| 0:28.0 | I grew up trusting the system. I grew up believing that every human being should do the right thing. |
| 0:33.0 | And that's why even though I knew I was dealing with corrupt people, I wasn't going to brave anyone to get me out of prison. |
| 0:39.0 | Because I wouldn't live with the fact that I brave my way out of my wife's death. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm not innocent to prove I'm guilty. I'm guilty until I prove my innocence and that's absolutely what happened to me. |
| 0:51.0 | Our system since I've been out 10 years, it's come a little ways, but it's still broken. |
| 0:56.0 | I totally lost trust in humanity after what happened to me. |
| 1:02.0 | This is wrong for conviction. |
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