Implicit Bias - Lester Young and Steven Buggs

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, Lester Young, a 34-year-old church handyman, was gunned down in his East Oakland home in front of his teenage nephew. The only eyewitness identified a specific shooter—but the lead detective, Phong Tran, had other plans. Ignoring the witness, Tran pivoted to Steven Buggs, a truck driver who had grown up with the victim. What followed was a 15-hour interrogation filled with racial threats, a decade behind bars, and an 82-year-to-life sentence based on "investigative work" that was rotting from the inside out.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:27.8	This is True Crime cast Jamie and John back again.
0:28.4	What's up?
0:31.3	Dude, it is the time to mow my yard.
0:36.2	I, on my way over here, was like, I can't believe he hasn't mowed his long yet.
0:36.9	It will have. What a slacker.
0:38.3	It's happening.
0:39.4	It's still like really wet because we've had so much rain and snow and ice.
0:45.5	Wow.
0:45.9	I just need.
0:47.0	Sounds like it's just raining excuses outside.
0:50.7	No.
0:50.8	Do you really think I would have an excuse as to why I haven't mowed my yard?
0:55.6	I'm more.
0:56.1	I assume you would have mowed mine already too.
0:58.6	So all good.
0:59.6	Yours needs it more than mine right now.
1:01.3	Wow.
1:02.2	You have a lot of those little onion shoots coming up.
1:05.0	I am judging.
1:07.5	Well, it's not a crime.
1:10.3	And we've got a good crime today. We've got a good story, hoping to get some resolution to this one. A couple months ago, we did an alleged wrongful conviction, and we decided to try to do more of those. So we'll go through today's and see what people think.
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