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Undisclosed: Toward Justice

S3 Ep31: S3, The State v. Dennis Perry - Episode 18 – The Prosecutor's Immunity

Undisclosed: Toward Justice

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News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

November 29, 2018 / Assistant District Attorney John Johnson, the prosecutor in Dennis Perry's case, has sent many defendants to death row. But as a result of how John Johnson prosecuted some of those cases, not all of his convictions are still standing today.

Episode scoring music by Blue Dot Sessions, Patrick Cortes, and Chris Zabriskie.

This episode was sponsored by BodyBoss and Article.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The part that what makes me really believe that Barrington did it was if you had nothing to do with the case, why was he given immunity?

0:26.6

You've been asking yourself the same questions.

0:29.6

Mike Ellerson, the former investigator of the Kim Kinney Sheriff's Office, was right.

0:33.6

I had been asking myself that same question, a lot.

0:36.6

... I had been asking myself that same question, a lot.

0:49.5

Why had Donnie Barentine, an alternate suspect in the case, been given immunity by prosecutor John Johnson, to testify at Dennis Perry's trial?

0:55.0

Why? What was so that you gave him immunity? Why? That right there was my red flag saying,

0:59.0

I believe butching him.

1:01.0

You know, Dennis didn't do it.

1:04.0

Why would you give that? Why does he, why was he given immunity?

1:09.0

For what? If he had nothing to do with it, why?

1:12.4

Mike Ellerson didn't have answers, and I didn't either.

1:15.2

Although, it's not the fact of Donnie Barentine receiving immunity that bothered me so much.

1:19.9

That I could understand.

1:20.9

That wasn't so weird.

1:22.8

But what I couldn't get over and couldn't understand is the reason John Johnson had given that immunity.

1:28.3

Finding that said Donnie Barentine was a witness to the death of Harold and Thelma Swain

1:32.6

was present at the scene and has given statements to other persons about his involvement.

1:37.5

His testimony to such is necessary to the public interest.

1:41.0

Why would John Johnson have written that Barentine was getting immunity because he was a

1:45.0

witness to Harold and Thelma Swain being murdered? The only person who can answer that question is

1:53.5

John Johnson, and he doesn't have any answers that he's willing to share. He's been asked before.

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