The Kiss of Death
Murder Minute
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🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Minute. On today's episode, The Kiss of Death, but first your true crime headlines. |
| 0:20.0 | The Supreme Court of the State of Florida has extended its suspension of jury trials until July 2nd due to the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 0:23.6 | The suspension has been in place since mid-March |
| 0:26.9 | and legal experts worried that the unprecedented delay |
| 0:30.3 | will lead to tremendous backlogs in the court system. |
| 0:34.0 | To mitigate that, law enforcement officials have attempted to prevent cases from piling up by |
| 0:39.0 | declining to prosecute for minor offenses and releasing some low-level offenders. |
| 0:45.0 | According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, |
| 0:48.0 | there were 21,985 arrests in the month of April, |
| 0:52.0 | which was a 50% reduction from March's 43,379 arrests |
| 0:58.8 | statewide. |
| 1:00.4 | Even with this drastic reduction in arrests, there are still thousands of people in legal limbo, held in jails around the state. |
| 1:08.0 | The state Supreme Court's order also added to the list of legal proceedings that can be done virtually, including |
| 1:14.8 | non-jury trials, some arraignments and pretrial hearings, and non-criminal traffic cases. |
| 1:20.7 | A group has been tasked with recommending what can stay online even after the pandemic ends, |
| 1:26.0 | and some of the virtual proceedings may be here to stay. |
| 1:30.0 | In Modesto, California, police arrested a man after he allegedly hopped onto a wine tanker truck and unscrewed a valve on the tanker, sending wine gushing out onto the highway. |
| 1:44.3 | Gabriel Moreno was captured on the Freightliner surveillance video driving next to the truck |
| 1:49.6 | in a sedan on Highway 99. |
| 1:52.3 | He activated his hazard lights motioning for the tanker driver to pull over to the side of the road. |
| 1:58.0 | Once the driver had done that, he watched as Moreno ran from his vehicle to the passenger side of the wine tanker dressed only in his underpants. |
| 2:07.0 | The truck driver pulled back onto the highway and the tanker's video camera captures Moreno again, |
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