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🗓️ 26 August 2020
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More headlines as Murf the Surf is tried for murder, and tries to escape punishment by reason of insanity. We also get to know Salvatore “Sonny” Grech, the state’s star witness who made a run for it when it came time to testify.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, just a quick warning. This episode does have explicit language and may be inappropriate for kids. |
0:06.0 | Time as to how Jack Murphy will plead in this case? |
0:09.0 | Yes, he will plead not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the arraignment |
0:15.7 | and not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the commission of the offense. My name is Nate Scott. I'm a reporter and editor with For The Win in USA Today Sports. |
0:30.0 | This is the sneak. Last episode, Jack Murphy recounted his version of what happened in Whiskey Creek. |
0:42.0 | We'll get back to that, but first... he recounted his version of what happened in Whiskey Creek. |
0:43.4 | We'll get back to that, but first, we want to take you to his trial. |
0:47.6 | Like every story in Jack's life, however, it's no straight shot to get there. As you might remember, Jack was bailed out after the Whiskey Creek arrest, |
0:57.0 | because the police only had circumstantial evidence. |
1:00.0 | It was then he and Sonny Gretsch, among others, pulled off the robbery of Olive Wofford when Jack got into a firefight with police. |
1:07.0 | I go around this building and the shooting and the shale shingles on this house or explode. I got the stuff is all stuck and so they |
1:15.1 | grabbed me and I so shortly thereafter I they take me to a hospital and then the |
1:21.6 | next thing I'm in jail but once again police couldn't hold him |
1:26.4 | I get |
1:28.2 | arrested and I bail out on that I bail on that at the meanwhile the grand jury's meeting on these murder charges I mean everything is |
1:34.8 | helter-skelter that's right Jack was released again even though he'd been connected to a double |
1:40.4 | murder only a month earlier and had just engaged in a public |
1:43.2 | firefight with police. Turns out Florida has been Florida for a long time. |
1:48.7 | But Jack was out and for a time he would remain out. One of the reasons prosecutors failed to get an indictment |
1:54.8 | for Jack was that they had put their faith in an unreliable star witness. Their witness was |
1:59.5 | a man you've heard from before. Sunny Gretch.. See, Gretsch was in police custody following the |
2:05.4 | Wofford robbery. He was Jack Griffith's roommate at the time, as well as an |
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