Chapter 7: What Now?

Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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As adamant as police and prosecutors are that they properly handled the case against murder suspect Elwood Jones, a judge is expected to weigh whether Jones can get a new trial in the 1994 slaying of Rhoda Nathan. Elwood’s lawyers accuse prosecutors of withholding key information that could have changed jurors’ minds 25 years ago.

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0:00.0	Join 1v3 Plus and Apple Podcasts or the 1v3 App to binge all 7 episodes of Accused Season
0:07.2	4, The Impending Execution of Elwood Jones, Early and Add Free.
0:12.7	Since Nadie and Choir in USA Today's subscribers can also listen early and add free by going to
0:18.3	AccusedPodcast.com.
0:24.3	Previously Unaccused.
0:25.3	In this case you had an aggravated murder and he was eligible for the death penalty and
0:34.4	I don't think anyone was very surprised that the prosecution sought the death penalty.
0:39.9	We were the number one county in the entire country in terms of putting people on death
0:43.8	role for our population.
0:45.8	So we didn't have any eyewitness, we didn't have a confession, but we had to me overwhelming
0:51.8	circumstances that pointed to one person and one thing that happened.
1:02.7	When I first started reinvestigating the case against Elwood Jones, it was the necklace
1:08.0	that stumped me.
1:09.0	And if police found the pendant to wrote on Nathan's necklace in Elwood's toolbox, how
1:15.1	could he be innocent?
1:17.6	Two years and some change later, however, the pendant doesn't
1:21.7	bother me so much.
1:23.3	It's not that I'd go so far as to alleged what Elwood's first lawyer alleged.
1:29.8	It might not be that sinister, at least not on the part of the investigators.
1:35.2	The fact is the keys to Elwood's car weren't locked up.
1:39.4	Officer Mike Bray was told to secure them and he didn't by his own admission on the
1:44.1	stand.
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