A Death in Soundview

Doing Justice

CAFE

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, True Crime

5 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode of Doing Justice, Preet Bharara's six-part adaptation of his bestselling book, Preet recounts the case of Eric Glisson, who was sentenced to 25 to life for a murder he didn’t commit. Seventeen years into his sentence, an SDNY investigator discovered that someone else had already confessed to the crime. Check back each Wednesday for the next six weeks to hear Preet grapple with the moral dimensions of some of the cases that inspired and challenged him during his prosecutorial career. For references and a transcript, visit: cafe.com/doing-justice-podcast/episode-1-a-death-in-soundview Purchase the paperback of the bestselling book that inspired the podcast, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law: doingjusticebook.com Doing Justice is produced in collaboration with Transmitter Media. This episode was written & produced by Shoshi Shmuluvitz. Our editor is Sara Nics and the executive producer is Gretta Cohn. The executive producer at CAFE Studios is Tamara Sepper and the chief business officer is Geoff Isenman. Meral Agish fact checked this episode. And Hannis Brown composed our original music and was our mix engineer for this series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It seems like each news cycle is filled with stories of people testing the boundaries of our laws.
0:06.0	To help illuminate the complex legal issues shaping our country,
0:09.0	Cafe has assembled a team of legal experts for a new podcast called The Council.
0:15.2	You'll hear from former U.S. attorneys Joyce Vance and Barbara McQuaid, legal scholar
0:19.5	Rachel Barco, former FBI Special Agent Asher Rangapa, and of course me,
0:24.0	Elle Honegg, a former prosecutor and CNN senior legal analyst.
0:28.0	Listen to commentary from The Council twice a week by subscribing on your favorite podcast app. That's
0:33.7	council co-u-n-s-e-l.
0:38.3	If Sink Singh was a condo, it would be a million dollar condos.
0:42.0	If you ever walk out of Sink Singh and look at the
0:43.7	look at the view across the Hudson River you will not believe it.
0:48.4	But once you go into those doors it's a creepy, creepy train.
0:57.0	John O'Malley was a cop with the NYPD for 21 years. He's lost count of how many times he went to Sing Sing,
1:00.0	usually when he was working on a case and needed to talk to an inmate.
1:03.0	But when he walked into the prison in the summer of 2012, it was different.
1:08.0	O'Malley was the one with the news, for a convicted murderer named Eric Listen.
1:13.0	I was scared.
1:15.0	Someone wants to see me.
1:16.0	And I have to go to the front of the prison.
1:19.0	And there, that's an indication that you're telling on someone or you know you have a new charge
1:25.8	some detectives is coming to re-arrest you or whatever.
1:29.4	This time they took me to a different part of the jail where they had visits and stuff like that.
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