S16 Ep27: Innocence in Texas

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bob is joined by a team of lawyers from the Innocence Project of Texas. Mike Ware, Allison Clayton, Kaitlin Gilbert, and Danica Obregon take time out of their day of celebration as Mike is being inducted into the Texas Criminal Defense Attorney Hall of Fame to share some amazing updates about Sandy Melgar's case, Jesse Eldridge's case, and a great story about another huge win the IPTX and the wrongfully convicted.

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0:00.0	From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.
0:19.4	I'm Bob Rock.
0:39.4	Hello everybody and welcome back to Truth and Justice.
0:45.8	We have a really special, perhaps chaotic episode coming up for you guys.
0:48.2	We've got several guests today.
0:53.2	This initially started with me and the executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas,
0:54.8	Mike Ware, having some conversations about what's going on in the Sandy Milgar case. I know that a ton of you have just
0:58.8	been waiting and waiting and waiting to get more updates on her case. There's been some
1:03.8	updates on Jesse's case. And through our conversation, we said, just come on with a whole
1:08.5	pack of attorneys that are all down in San Antonio right now
1:11.5	celebrating Mike's induction, I think is, is that the right word, Mike?
1:17.0	I believe that's the right word.
1:18.1	Yeah, into the defense attorney Hall of Fame. Did I also get that right?
1:23.3	Well, Texas criminal defense attorney Hall of Fame, yes. There it is. So we have a Hall of
1:27.4	Famer in our presence.
1:29.0	Mike has brought along with him.
1:30.7	You guys all know and love her, Allison Clayton, who worked on Jesse's case and
1:34.2	Ed Aid's case.
1:35.4	Man is now doing some work on Allison's case, I think.
1:38.1	We also have Caitlin Gilbert joining us, and she's one of the attorneys that are working on
1:42.9	Sandy's case, and Mike said Caitlin will have a one of the attorneys that are working on Sandy's case and Mike said
1:45.5	Caitlin will have a lot of the information. She's definitely our go-to on Sandy's case. And then we have
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