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Breakdown

S04, Ep2: The prosecution

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The jury that hears the case against Devonia Inman must go through the peculiar process of becoming "death qualified." Meanwhile, some key witnesses take the stand and say they really didn't see what they told police they saw.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's worth knowing which is really going on.

0:04.0

This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

0:30.0

So currencies can go down or up.

1:00.0

You're listening to the fourth season of Breakdown, an exclusive podcast of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

1:08.0

This season, murder below the netline.

1:12.0

For photos and additional information, please go to AJC.com-breakdown.

1:17.0

Follow us on Twitter at AJC Courts and at AJC Breakdown.

1:30.0

The next thing, you know, when you say he pulled out the 44 caliber, his quid, the trivet.

1:41.0

I just get angry, then I get sad, then I get angry, and I get sad.

1:46.0

The longer the understand, you know, how people say they don't want people to be in prison for stuff today to do.

1:54.0

He is by no means a boy scout.

1:56.0

There's no question that the guy has done wrong in his life, but I don't think he committed this crime.

2:06.0

Perhaps the judge presiding over the Devanya Inman murder trial said it best when he remarked from the bench.

2:12.0

I was trying to explain this to another judge in the last couple of days about how we heard three days of impeachment of a person's own witness.

2:20.0

And then, impeachment of that impeached witness, and then an impeachment of the impeacher of the impeached witness.

2:29.0

Well, Georgia is the peach state.

2:32.0

We'll talk a lot about those impeachable witnesses, but first, a word about the jury in the Devanya Inman murder trial.

2:40.0

Inman was accused of shooting Donna Brown, the night manager at the Taco Bell in tiny Adel, Georgia,

2:47.0

as she left the store with the night's proceeds.

2:50.0

The state was seeking the death penalty against Inman, and that has a peculiar impact on a jury.

2:57.0

The United States Supreme Court has said that in order to qualify a jury in a death penalty case, the juror has to be what's referred to as death qualified.

3:08.0

That's Atlanta defense lawyer Don Samuel.

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