42: Prejudicial?
Suspect Convictions
Kast Media
4.2 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The judge decides whether jurors will learn of Stanley Liggins sex crime conviction and Jennifer’s mother shares what happened the night her daughter was slain. Liggins' lawyer asks the grieving mother graphic sexual questions.
SPONSOR:
stitchfix.com/suspect for 25% off, when you keep all 5 items in your box!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Your favorite podcast, Lost In, is back with all new episodes about people who disappear and go missing under the oddest of circumstances. |
| 0:08.6 | Our first story is about Ben Padilla, an American pilot, and a huge Boeing 727 airplane that disappeared from a runway in Africa just after 9-11. |
| 0:19.2 | Their disappearance sent governments around the world into a state of panic. |
| 0:23.2 | Was it terrorism, diamond smugglers, or was it something else? |
| 0:27.0 | We will also dig into the disappearance of three surfers in Mexico's ordinarily safe Baja region. |
| 0:33.6 | A new season of Lost In will premiere on June 10th, so hit subscribe now, and be sure to tell a friend Lost |
| 0:39.8 | in is returning this month. |
| 0:44.4 | Jurors won't hear about the nine-year-old girl that Standing Liggins sexually abused one |
| 0:49.0 | month before Jennifer Lewis was inally raped, strangled, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. |
| 0:57.0 | They won't hear how he reached inside her swimsuit bottoms and touched her. |
| 1:02.0 | They won't hear how she broke away and ran with him on her heels. |
| 1:06.0 | And they certainly won't hear what her mother once testified, that after her child spoke in |
| 1:13.5 | court against Liggins, he looked across the courtroom and told her he would kill her child. |
| 1:20.2 | Here is the explanation Judge Marlita Grieve gave for not allowing jurors in the current trial |
| 1:26.1 | to hear of this. |
| 1:27.1 | Even highly appropriate evidence such as this previous crime may be excluded if the danger |
| 1:32.6 | of unfair prejudice is too high. |
| 1:35.9 | I simply cannot get over that part of this test. |
| 1:40.7 | I find that presenting this evidence to a jury who is hearing a case where a child was brutally sexually abused, strangled, her body dumped, set on fire. |
| 1:53.0 | They hear that that person sexually molested another child, they will certainly be enraged, disgusted, and prejudiced against Mr. Liggins. |
| 2:03.5 | I believe on that alone. |
| 2:05.7 | In other words, a jury could convict Mr. Liggins on that basis alone, believing he's a child |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kast Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kast Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

