29: Trouble in Paradise
Suspect Convictions
Kast Media
4.2 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Rpynes Dural served eight years in a Hawaii prison for a sexual assault that may never have taken place. A Hawaii court threw out his conviction, but he remains on the sex offender registry. We look at this miscarriage of justice.
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| 0:47.1 | She said she didn't know how she was when it allegedly happened. |
| 0:50.4 | So they gave a two-year time period from 1998 to 2000. |
| 0:57.0 | There was no evidence whatsoever, no physical evidence. Like this case, my case, I think, should be the prototypical case of one of, you know, these cases to where people just make allegations, you can't prove a negative. |
| 1:15.6 | Because unless there's cameras or eyewitnesses, you can't prove that you didn't do something. |
| 1:24.6 | And they end up going to trial. |
| 1:33.2 | Ronis is convicted and sentenced to prison. |
| 1:38.3 | And as you pointed out, I mean, here's a guy who had absolutely no prior criminal record whatsoever, |
| 1:45.1 | had just received a medal in the Navy for saving someone's life. |
| 1:50.4 | This is Scott Reader, founder of suspect convictions. |
| 1:55.3 | Nothing is more reviled in our society than a child molester. |
| 2:03.7 | Imagine being wrongly convicted of such a crime and having to serve eight years in prison for a crime you did not commit. |
| 2:13.0 | That is what Royez Durrell says happened to him, even though his conviction has been thrown out by the Hawaii appellate court. |
| 2:17.0 | He remains on the sex offenderistry for the state of Hawaii. |
| 2:25.8 | On December 19, 2002, Royez Durrell, a U.S. Navy sailor stationed at Pearl Harbor, |
| 2:32.8 | was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, which had allegedly occurred between the years 1998 and 2000. |
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