S15 Ep6: The Robbery

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Bob breaks down a major element of the case against Jodi Hill. At trial the State convinced the jury that Jodi was part of an armed robbery attempt on DeMorrio Lowes, which served as their motive to silence him. The reality of the situation is mind boggling. In this episode Jodi explains what they know about the robbery, and we learn how that information matters when it comes to the fairness of Jodi's trial.

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0:54.0	I'm Bob Roth. Oh, Jody Hill was tried and convicted for the murder of De Mario Loz.
1:23.0	In a murder trial, you'd expect to find pages and pages of testimony about forensic evidence, timelines, eyewitness accounts, etc.
1:32.0	You'd expect to see a litany of evidence presented to the jury connecting
1:36.2	the defendant to the murder. But that wasn't the case at Jody's trial. In fact, very little of the trial proceedings had anything to do with the events of the night of November 15th into the early morning hours of the 16th.
1:50.0	The main focus of Jody's 2002 trial was not about the murder at all.
1:55.0	It was about an armed robbery that had occurred two days prior.
2:00.0	The phrase smoke and mirrors comes to mind.
2:03.4	Short of Sonia Lucas's testimony about Mario's dying declaration,
2:07.6	testimony that she is now recanted,
2:10.0	there simply was no evidence that Jody was even present when Lowe's was killed.
2:15.1	No one claimed to have seen them at the scene that night.
2:18.2	None of Jody's fingerprints were found on the scene, none of their DNA was present, and in, a man who was convicted of drugs and weapon charges just down the street a few months later,
2:27.0	his DNA was found on the shell casings.
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