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The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

99. Delphi and the "Some Other Dude Did It" Defense

The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

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True Crime, Talk Radio

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Delphi is just the latest case where the defense offers an alternative suspect, sometimes called the SODDI defense.. How does this alternate theory work? Are there any limits on it? And how will those limits affect the trial in Delphi?

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0:00.0

I'm Alice and I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal proof. Yes. Welcome back to the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host Alice and I'm joined as always by my alternate co-host, Brett.

0:41.0

Oh, I'm not your alternate co-host, Alice.

0:43.0

I'm your always co-host.

0:44.0

What are you trying to say?

0:46.0

Are you trying to tell me something?

0:47.0

I'm being fired.

0:48.0

Well, well, this is an awkward way to say you're being replaced.

0:51.0

Just kidding.

0:52.0

Sorry, Brett, but sometimes you are the alternate co-host,

0:55.4

sometimes I'm the alternate co-host, but that doesn't really mean anything because we're always on

0:59.7

the podcast together. But what does it mean if you want to say there's an alternate

1:04.3

suspect for the crime that you've been indicted for? Yeah, Alice, and this is

1:09.8

sometimes called the Some Other Dude Did It did it defense very popular defense out there and one of those things that comes up a lot and you hear about a lot and one reason you often hear about it is because you'll see when someone's convicted there's a claim of, well, I had an alternate suspect and I really wanted to put that person forward.

1:29.6

And if only the jury had heard what I had to say about the other guy. They would have acquitted me, but the mean

1:34.5

evil judge, it was clearly in the pocket of the prosecution, wouldn't allow me to introduce that evidence.

1:39.7

And we thought, hey, this is a topic that almost no one knows anything about.

1:45.3

So why not talk about it, particularly because it is going to be an issue likely

1:51.5

in the upcoming Delphi trial, as it's not just some other dude did it

1:55.7

it's some other cult did it is what we've heard from the defense continuously

2:00.3

now going on seven or eight months and even in their latest filings talking

2:04.6

about Odinist and this question of what is the defense going to have to show in

2:08.6

order to make the Odinist argument not just to the public but to the jury.

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