Hi and welcome to Undisclosed.

This week, instead of having an addendum on episode one of our new series on Rocky Myers,

we are actually going to be doing a bonus episode to give an update on two cases that we've covered in earlier seasons,

seasons two and three of Undisclosed.

But before moving on,

Rabia here, and I just want to say hi to my colleagues, Susan and Colin. Hey, guys. Hey, Robia.

Okay, so there's been some important developments. Now, unfortunately, even though our work is

great and important, we believe it, it does move like molasses and our listeners always want to

know what's going on. And there have been developments in both the Joey Watkins and Dennis Perry cases.

And so we thought we'd do a whole episode to kind of go over what's happening.

And then we'll also revisit some of the other cases that we've been doing later this summer.

So let's start with Joey.

We've been waiting for this ruling for a year now.

So it's been some time. But after our

season two series, the Georgia Innocent Project filed a habeas petition for Joey up in Walker County,

where he's then being held in prison. And there was a hearing on the state's motion to dismiss.

The state argued that because Joey Watkins had waited too many years to bring this petition and because he'd also brought a previous habeas petition based on the cell phone evidence in his case, that he had no right to bring claims for the court ever again, essentially.

So even though he had claims based on Brady violations, the state's

withholding of exculpatory evidence, and based on newly discovered juror misconduct, based on a

juror who independently attempted to conduct a drive test in the cell phone evidence, based definitively

on an incorrect assumption about places and distances traveled. The trial court ruled in favor of the state

found that it was Joey Watkins' obligation to discover new evidence to find the jurors had done misconduct,

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