State v. Gary Mitchum Reeves – Episode 4 – Sheriff’s Proxy
Undisclosed: Toward Justice
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4.2 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
August 7, 2017 / After his conviction, Gary brought post-conviction challenges based on Beverly's confession to her mother's murder and his trial attorney's ineffectiveness. Although the motions were denied, the hearings provided an opportunity to hear from witnesses who had never before been questioned in the case.
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| 0:00.0 | Back in the old days in Floyd County and maybe even a little bit today, the best defense |
| 0:28.6 | to a murder charge wasn't I didn't do it. It was I did it and the victim deserved it. |
| 0:34.5 | Probably the best example of this was the 1951 murder of Ursul Haney. |
| 0:39.0 | Ursul had started doing a man named Harry Boswell and things were going well for them, |
| 0:43.0 | except for one little problem. Boswell still had a wife named Nelly and although at some point |
| 0:48.1 | he'd frowned for divorce, Nelly was devastated with her strange husband taking up with herself. |
| 0:53.1 | One day when they were all in court for the Boswell's divorce proceedings, |
| 0:56.7 | all the parties were waiting out in the courtroom hallway when Ursul had laughed at Nelly or so Nelly |
| 1:01.9 | says. But the next day they were back at the court for a second day and out in the court house |
| 1:07.9 | hallway, Nelly walked up to her cell and shot her point blank three times. It was the court, |
| 1:12.8 | so there were plenty of witnesses, but at the trial she told the jury about how much her husband |
| 1:18.2 | had meant to her and how desperate she was not to lose him and how when she'd seen her cell in court |
| 1:22.8 | the day before Ursul had laughed at her. The jury returned and knocked guilty verdict. |
| 1:33.7 | Or take Bobbily Cook, North West Georgia's most famous defense attorney. It was his firm, |
| 1:38.5 | their president Joy Watkins, and Robbie and Colin and I discussed some of the cases he's handled |
| 1:42.7 | in episode 18 of season 2. But again and again throughout his career, Bobbily Cook managed to pull |
| 1:48.0 | off wins for his clients that didn't seem possible based on the state's evidence. But if you look |
| 1:52.0 | back over his record, the cases he's known for, the ones where he was able to make a name for himself, |
| 1:56.8 | those cases are almost never about proving his client's innocence. His big wins were those cases |
| 2:02.0 | where he told the jury his client had done it, but then found a way to persuade them not to send |
| 2:06.2 | his client a prison for it. Or if the jury absolutely had a sentence that defend it to some time, |
| 2:10.8 | for what they'd done, well then at least it shouldn't be for very long. But while this defense |
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