The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Justin Rutherford | EP 5 | Stacey's Story

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Justin goes before the Judge, and Stacey and Tyler face him for the first time since his arrest. Nothing can prepare them for what he says on the stand.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.5	Every defendant has the right to what we call allocution.
0:08.3	They have the right to speak on their own behalf.
0:10.8	As a prosecutor, I have seen a lot of defendants give statements, and I have seen it range.
0:17.4	I've seen defendants be apologetic and truly apologetic. I've seen some of them
0:23.6	apologize to their own families, but in my opinion, his allocution was one of the weirdest
0:29.4	allocutions I've heard in my whole career. I'm Andrea Gunning.
0:45.8	This is Betrayal Season 3, Episode 5.
0:49.0	The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania versus Justin Rutherford.
0:56.7	The charges against Justin Rutherford could put him in prison for decades.
1:01.7	Tyler was the chief witness against him.
1:04.4	So Justin had tried on several occasions to persuade Tyler to recant his statement to detectives.
1:11.0	When that didn't work, he concocted a plan to eliminate Tyler.
1:16.2	Justin had sent letters to his godmother Nanny D,
1:19.1	begging her to find someone to murder him.
1:22.2	And he even solicited a cellmate in county jail to do the job.
1:30.3	None of those efforts had paid off.
1:39.3	Monday, May 1st, 2023 at 1129 a.m., Redding, Pennsylvania. Two and a half years after Justin was arrested,
1:42.3	Stacey, Tyler, their family and friends, arrived at the
1:46.2	Berks County Courthouse.
1:48.7	The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania versus Justin Rutherford.
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