Unfortunate Sons: The Convictions of Sebastian Burns & Atif Rafay

True Crime Brewery

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Dr. Tariq Rafay, his wife Sultana and their 20-year old daughter Basma were viciously bludgeoned to death in their Bellevue, Washington home on the evening of July 12, 1994. Atif Rafay, the son of Sultana and Tariq, found them when he returned home around 2am. Atif and his friend Sebastian Burns, both 18-years old, had […]

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0:00.0	True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real life crimes.
0:05.0	Medical information is opinion based on facts of a crime and should not be interpreted as medical advice or treatment.
0:12.0	listener discretion is advised. it as medical advice or treatment.
0:13.0	Listener discretion is advised. Mr. Burns, I'm obligated at this point to stop and give you an opportunity to make a statement
0:30.8	before I sentence you. If there's something you want to say,
0:34.3	I will certainly consider it.
0:36.9	Mr Burns.
0:38.6	Thank you, your honor.
0:41.6	Friend and I have been convicted for a crime we did not commit.
0:44.0	There's two things I want to discuss this morning, possibly.
0:48.0	The first is a few reasons why I think our trial is unfair with respect.
0:54.8	Let's hope you to make some comments about the evidence.
0:57.4	We were unable to tell this jury
1:01.8	what other suspects
1:04.0	you were the murder weapon was before anybody else did.
1:08.0	We were prosecuted with the tactic that would not be legal in this country.
1:12.0	We were not able to present evidence to
1:17.1	answer the state's case. I was not allowed to give critical testimony that I needed to give to explain this evidence.
1:28.0	We were defending ourselves in this trial with both arms tied behind our backs.
1:35.0	I certainly feel sorry for the victims.
1:40.0	I feel sorry for their surviving son.
1:42.0	I feel sorry for their surviving family. We didn't commit the crime.
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