77 | The Death of Darrius Sweet: Accident or Murder?

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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When 13 month-old Darrius Sweet dies while being watched by his mother’s boyfriend, police investigate whether it was murder or an accident.

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0:00.0	A 13-month-old little boy named Darius Sweet had died under suspicious circumstances.
0:17.0	Tell me that the jury was able to put this together.
0:31.0	Hello and welcome to Best Case Worse Case. This is Jim Clemente, former New York City
0:40.7	Prooxicator, retired FBI profiler and founder of XG Productions. And with me today in the studio is.
0:46.9	Hi everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor. Hi Jim.
0:51.2	How are you Francie? I'm good, it's nice to be actually face-to-face in the studio together.
0:56.2	Well I'm glad you think so, thank you. Nice. You know our listeners already think that you don't like me so don't play any.
1:02.2	Oh stop, they can hear our smiles. Anyway, Francie today I want to interview you. You just don't get enough time to speak to you.
1:12.2	Well. So why don't we give you an opportunity? Francie, do you have a case in mind for today?
1:20.2	I do, I have a very very difficult case that happened to me yes. Well you're giving away way too much but whatever.
1:28.2	When in your career were you when this case came in? This was really early in my career. I was a baby assistant DA. I had been an assistant DA for just three years when this case came in.
1:40.2	And is there anything in particular you were doing when this case came in?
1:46.2	I was working in the what's called the Dordi County District Attorney's Office. That's located in Albany, Georgia.
1:52.2	That's in South Georgia or as everyone in Georgia might refer to it below the Nat line. Below the what line?
1:58.2	The Nat line. Like GNAT line? Like the little bugs. There's no Nats there or there are Nats there.
2:05.2	Oh there are Nats there. So there's no Nats above there?
2:08.2	No well not as many and they don't invade you like some sort of conquering force like they do in South Georgia.
2:15.2	Well it's great that we're in South California now and I don't think I've ever seen a Nat here.
2:22.2	No I'm pretty sure you're right it's pretty nice. It's not free.
2:25.2	Not free.
2:26.2	Okay great. So now that we got to that set old about the Nat line what were you doing specifically on that day?
2:35.2	I was sitting at my desk when the district attorney Ken Hodges who by the way has just been elected to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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