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Best Case Worst Case

102 | Worst Case Scenario: Justice Denied?

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Francey tackle injustices ripped from the headlines: untested rape kits, the death penalty for a family killer, and prosecutors’ failure to seek justice.


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0:00.0

Are we going to be a society that kills people?

0:07.0

Epstein was recruiting under age girls.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to Best Case, Worst Case, Worst Case scenario. I'm your host,

0:41.6

Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor, and with me in the studio is Jim Clemente,

0:48.0

the entire FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer producer on CBS's

0:52.9

Criminal Minds. Jim, it's great to be together always. Of course. And today we have another

0:58.6

Worst Case scenario. So we have a lot to talk about. It seems like we could do a

1:04.5

Worst Case scenario three times a week. Yeah, there's so many things that are going on.

1:08.7

Just some of them are incredibly tragic. Some of them are maddening. And some of them

1:16.4

you and I might not even have the same take on. So we're going to talk about one of those

1:21.1

today. But first I want to talk about something I suspect we will agree on. And that is there

1:26.2

was an article in the last few days CNN has done an investigative series really on untested

1:33.7

rape kits in this country. It's been a problem now for a lot of years. There's a back

1:40.1

a lot of huge back of kids that remain untested. And for those people who don't know a rape

1:46.6

kit is pretty simple and small. And a lot of police agencies claim that after a certain

1:53.6

period of time they need to get rid of them because they take up space and of course they

1:56.9

take up space. But it's evidence. It's evidence of a crime. And it's usually something small

2:01.6

like swabs, cuttings, maybe photographs depending on what the agency puts in their rape

2:07.4

kit. It's usually about the size of a shoe box. Exactly. So CNN solicited a bunch of

2:13.2

different police agencies in the country and discovered that even very recently within

2:18.6

the last few years some police agencies are destroying untested rape kits. Not only untested,

2:28.5

but untested rape kits that are still within the statute of limitations. And they found

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