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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

#BecauseMiami: Murder U

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On 11/7/2006, former Miami Hurricanes defensive lineman Bryan Pata was murdered. In August 2021, former Miami Hurricanes defensive back Rashaun Jones was arrested in connection with Pata's murder. Due to not being able to afford bail, Jones has been in jail since his arrest. He was tried but the jury was hung and result was a mistrial. Christian Maroni, Sara Alvarez, and Danielle Perez represents Jones's defense team. They join Billy Corben to talk about the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I've received your note indicating that you continue to be a deadlocked,

0:05.2

and so at this time I will declare a mistrial and a hung jury.

0:09.4

An agonizing 20-year wait for justice will have to wait a little longer.

0:14.4

Jurors in the second-degree murder trial of Rishon Jones, accused of killing his Hurricanes football teammate Brian Padda, could not come

0:22.4

to a unanimous verdict.

0:23.9

I'm even more convinced that he's responsible.

0:26.5

Edwin Padda and his family sat through every day of the trial, which stretched

0:30.9

into a third week.

0:32.1

For our family, this is one of the hardest things we had to deal with outside of Brian

0:36.0

Passing.

0:37.0

It just brought everything back. Padda was shot once in the head, killed in November 2006 outside his apartment complex near Dayland.

0:43.3

Jones was not arrested until 15 years later. Miami Hurricanes defensive lineman Brian Patton was murdered on November 7th, 2006.

1:02.4

One gunshot to the head.

1:04.5

Short time after practice at the University of Miami campus, he headed back to his apartment in the Kendall area,

1:13.9

the colony apartments that he shared with defensive tackle Dwayne Hendricks.

1:19.6

And he was discovered first by his then girlfriend and then by Hendricks,

1:25.1

who I guess was coming a little bit later home from

1:29.1

practice.

1:30.7

And the case was obviously a big deal.

1:35.6

It was in the midst of a pretty terrible season for the hurricanes.

1:40.1

Larry Coker, the head coach, would be fired just a couple weeks later.

1:44.6

And there was a lot of tumult.

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