288: The Mishandled Case of Kevin Cooper - February 10 2020 - Today in True Crime History

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com Evidence is the basis of a conviction. Without it, dangerous men and women would walk free. But, on some occasions, the evidence can be either misinterpreted, ignored, or just flat out not brought into court. Those are the cases where innocent people go to prison and murderers are left free. On February 10th 2004 a man who was, by all accounts a criminal in need of prison time, was scheduled to be executed. However, the evidence in his case was mishandled in a way that has left Kevin Cooper alive and in prison 15 years after he was set to die. Kevin Cooper Scheduled Execution (2004) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.8	Morning. Cuff of murder.
1:12.9	Evidence is the basis of a conviction.
1:16.8	Without it, dangerous men and women would walk free.
1:24.0	But on some occasions, the evidence can either be misinterpreted, ignored, or just flat out,
1:25.2	not brought into court.
1:29.5	Those are the cases where innocent people go to prison and murderers are left free. On February 10, 2004, a man who was, by all accounts, a criminal in need of prison
1:37.2	time, was scheduled to be executed. However, the evidence in his case was mishandled in a way that
1:43.8	left Kevin Cooper alive and
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