Ch. 12 - Something of this Magnitude?

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As we come to the end of season one, reporter Tessa Kramer is left with some lingering questions. How are the injustices we've seen in this story woven into the DNA of our criminal legal system? Is there hope for genuine reform? And what role can forensics play? More information on Maneka Sinha of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law: https://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty--research/directory/profile/index.php?id=1212 Radically Reimagining Forensic Evidence by Maneka Sinha: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3891788 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Story Mechanics and VPM
0:02.0	Mechanics and VPU.
0:04.0	Hello?
0:07.0	How y'all doing?
0:08.0	Good.
0:09.0	Reporter Sophie Behrman and I are meeting up with Earl Ruffin, the second man to be exonerated
0:15.0	by Mary Jane Burton's Clippings.
0:17.5	We're at a high school gymnasium in Suffolk, Virginia.
0:20.8	Earls invited us to his stepdaughter Naila's basketball game.
0:24.0	Shoot the ball now.
0:29.0	Let's see if she make these three throws.
0:31.0	Spread them fingers and bend them knees.
0:34.0	See I see lean back.
0:35.0	40 years ago, Earl was a star player.
0:39.0	When was the last time you played basketball?
0:41.0	It was been a while since I played.
0:44.0	When I first came home, I played.
0:48.0	First came home from Southampton State Prison.
0:52.0	So much was taken away from Earl the day he was arrested in 1982.
0:57.0	When he left work with two police officers,
1:00.0	he assumed this mistake would get cleared up in no time.
1:04.0	He didn't go home again for 21 years.
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