Life without Parole.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I never take that for granted that a life sentence without parole is, you know, |
| 0:05.4 | you can get some progressive politicians in there and change all the sentencing laws. |
| 0:10.6 | That we've seen it happen in New York, you know, and I'm not going to get political, |
| 0:15.3 | but we've seen a governor in New York parole cop killers that all were sentenced to life without parole. |
| 0:22.1 | And the governor passed a law. |
| 0:24.3 | Let's parole them. |
| 0:25.8 | So I don't ever take for granted anything. |
| 0:28.3 | And that's why I didn't take for granted that offering this plea, I felt, yeah, |
| 0:33.0 | it was probably a good idea. |
| 0:34.3 | But get something for it, Phil. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, Billy, just think about it. If but get something for it, Phil. Yeah, Billy, just think about it if you get something for it. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, the minute that the defense approaches the prosecution and says, we want to make a deal, |
| 0:47.4 | we want to plead guilty to life without the possibility of parole to avoid the death penalty. |
| 0:53.5 | That's the time when the prosecutor comes up with a number of questions that are |
| 0:59.5 | unanswered, 10, 20, 50 questions, whatever it is. |
| 1:03.3 | You sit down and you have ways to figure out if you're being told the truth or if you're |
| 1:08.7 | being told a lie. |
| 1:10.2 | You have investigators. He had a team of investigators. They go out and they corroborate some of the evidence. The minute you catch him in a lie, you tear up the deal and he goes to trial. Now, we've discussed that. But Mike Vecchioan brought something up very important the other night on this show. And I think, Bill, you touched on it a little bit just now, too. |
| 1:29.7 | We don't know what's going to happen in the years to come. |
| 1:30.8 | Laws could change. |
| 1:32.5 | Rules could change. |
| 1:34.8 | Life without the possibility of parole. Now, if you get a strong law firm or a lawyer that presents to a judge, |
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