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Cousins By Blood

Episode 44: The Jury Foreman

Cousins By Blood

Matt Duff

True Crime

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the jury foreman in Ivan's 2001 trial is interviewed. He shares his thoughts on the newly discovered information and if Ivan should be entitled to a new trial.

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0:00.0

23 years ago, Ivan was convicted of capital murder.

0:04.0

Now, for the third time, he's just weeks away from capital punishment. When this thing goes to court in trial, I have one shot and one opportunity to be not guilty or I go to prison in death row.

0:24.0

That's the reality of it.

0:27.0

We have busted alibis, we have caught people in lies.

0:32.0

This is just insane because everybody's... We have caught people in lies.

0:33.0

This is just insane because everybody's pointing the finger at somebody else.

0:37.0

You just don't hear every day walking in somebody's house, they're going to take the plastic out and pop somebody.

0:44.0

So he could get the execution date pretty much any day?

0:47.0

Yeah.

0:48.0

There's no impediment.

0:51.0

This is cousinsousins by Blood.

0:55.0

Episode 44, The Jury Foreman.

1:00.0

The Jury Selection

1:01.0

Process is quite calculated.

1:04.7

The initial group of people is pretty overwhelming.

1:09.2

And ironically, the air conditioning system wasn't working properly and it was blazing hot in there but

1:16.5

well over a hundred I would guess in the first sweep and then from there it was a deductive process where they eventually ended up interviewing people in the courtroom

1:30.8

with both sides of the case and the judge asking each of the jurors different

1:37.1

questions you know I thought all the questions were reasonable except for one. I do recall that the defense attorney had asked

1:48.0

me if I thought that someone could be saved as Christian while they're in prison and I said well yeah

1:56.1

absolutely and then they asked me if I thought that would be any reason to lessen the penalty and I said no absolutely not my opinion

2:06.3

That's blasphemy that's not my decision to make

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