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Breakdown

S01, Episode 8 - After a year’s wait, a concluding decision

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Justin Chapman awaits the all-important decision from the state's prosecutors: will they put him back on trial for murder and arson or end the long-running legal drama that put him in state prison for eight years? This concluding episode has all the answers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's worth knowing which really going on.

0:05.1

This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

0:11.6

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0:16.4

Check out the new Spring Dining Guide focused on everything baked and delicious in Metro

0:20.9

Atlanta, where our dining team has all of your decadent recommendations.

0:25.3

Check them all out at AJC.com slash baked goods.

0:30.0

With artistry and grace, Gerard Alexander was a dancer with promise.

0:35.0

He made the most difficult move seem effortless.

0:38.0

But he kept secrets that would contribute to a fall.

0:41.8

Discover the remarkable story, the highs and lows, the beauty and the tragedy.

0:48.0

The dancer.

0:49.0

Read the story now at AJC.com slash the dancer.

0:55.0

Listening to Breakdown, Railroad Justice in a Railroad Town, a special podcast by the Atlanta

1:01.1

Journal Constitution.

1:03.0

Visit our website, AJCBreakdown.com for photos, video and additional background.

1:18.0

Previously on Breakdown.

1:21.0

I want to stress that Mr. Chapman testified at the habeas hearing unequivocally that he did

1:27.6

not commit this crime.

1:29.2

And the Telfer Superior Court made a credibility finding that covered Mr. Chapman's testimony.

1:33.8

There was evidence before the Telfer Superior Court that a renowned polygrapher had examined

1:39.1

Chapman twice.

1:40.1

And with a 99.9 degree of certainty had concluded he's telling the truth when he says he didn't

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