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Criminal

J.R.R. Ziemba

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Crime victims are often put under the same scrutiny as the accused. Not only for their version of events, but sometimes for how they look and talk, too. We meet a man whose trial hurt worse than his assault. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:35.0

We're here for the Premier League.

0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:55.0

Barclays, here for the land of football.

1:00.0

Oh yeah, so, well my parents were back to the land hippie farmers when I was born I was born in a little teeny tiny town in West Virginia and so my older brother his name is Thorne's and but he was he was named after the dwarf king and the

1:14.8

Hobbit and my full name is Joseph Richard Reese Zimba so it's like J. R. R.

1:20.5

Zimba like the author J. R.R. token of Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.

1:25.0

So, you know, that's another thing.

1:27.3

When they spoke to me in court, they would always say Joseph Zimba.

1:30.6

And my parents never ever called me Joseph. and so it's almost like it's another

1:34.2

person that they're talking about I've I don't recognize that name as my own. This is Reisimba. He's a pretty eccentric guy. You'll hear it in the way he talks.

1:50.0

An eccentric doesn't always go over so well in court, even if you're the victim of a crime and not the perpetrator.

1:57.0

In criminal trials, jurors are told, quote, you are the sole judges of the credibility of the witnesses.

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