Ep 7 of 10: Holes in the Case (Part 1)

Strangeland

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True Crime

4.2 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As part of Strangeland’s reinvestigation, Ben and Sharon have been keeping a list that goes way beyond culture clashes and misunderstandings. It shows that the prosecution’s already-tenuous motive for Cho is even less solid than they thought. At the same time, Cho’s behavior doesn’t do him any favors.

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0:00.0	So Sharon, since he was found guilty in 2012, Robin Cho has tried to overturn his conviction
0:14.5	anyway he can.
0:16.1	He's appealed, that was denied.
0:18.6	He's petitioned the state for habeas corpus, which is basically a last-digit appeal,
0:23.6	which was also denied.
0:26.1	As we're recording this, Cho has been incarcerated for a decade.
0:30.4	He's an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California.
0:35.2	He's now 62 years old.
0:37.9	Correct.
0:39.3	So what do we know about how Robin Cho is doing now in 2021?
0:44.2	How is he holding up in prison?
0:46.2	Well as we've mentioned, Cho has declined to be interviewed about the specifics of his
0:50.7	case, but he has answered some of our in questions.
0:54.8	In the last letter we received from him, he told us, quote,
0:58.4	Do to my chronic medical conditions, I was not feeling well in the past two months.
1:03.6	I had both leg surgery in 2019, but specialists told me I need follow-up surgery.
1:09.7	I was told one leg is worse than before the surgery in 2019.
1:14.2	Unquote.
1:16.2	I asked Cho's wife, Pona, if she could go into more detail about his medical conditions.
1:21.9	He got diabetes while staying there.
1:28.9	He had a blood clot, but I don't know what happened.
1:32.8	And when he was moving to a different prison, he had a lot of documents to prove that he's
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