What Next - Does Proof Matter at the Supreme Court?
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🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Sixth Amendment is supposed to guarantee the right to a fair trial—including a lawyer, even if the defendant can’t afford one. But Indigent Defense is woefully underfunded and, sometimes, State-appointed lawyers are nowhere near as competent as Federal attorneys. A new Supreme Court ruling makes it more difficult to use exonerating evidence discovered on a federal level to prove innocence, even if state counsel didn’t look for it.
Guest: Leah Litman, law professor at University of Michigan, specializing in constitutional law and federal courts, and co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny
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| 0:00.0 | Try to get across that slice it just wider the post. |
| 0:05.0 | Have they done enough? |
| 0:07.0 | Can they pull it out the back? |
| 0:09.0 | Does the ref have a clue? |
| 0:11.0 | When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle! |
| 0:16.0 | There's no feeling like live TV. |
| 0:19.0 | However you watch, a TV licence is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels |
| 0:25.0 | and it also funds the BBC, such TV licence. |
| 0:31.0 | Heads up on today's show. |
| 0:34.0 | We talk about the details of a murder investigation. |
| 0:37.0 | Take care of yourself while listening. |
| 0:45.0 | Leah Litman has known Barry Jones' name for five years now. |
| 0:50.0 | She first heard about him from a story that ran over at the intercept. |
| 0:53.0 | This investigative piece, with a bleak takeaway. |
| 0:57.0 | About how Arizona was trying to execute an innocent man |
| 1:02.0 | whose conviction rested on faulty evidence that had been revealed to be faulty. |
| 1:10.0 | Barry Jones is this man. |
| 1:12.0 | A man on death row convicted of killing his girlfriend's daughter, a preschooler, |
| 1:17.0 | named Rachel back in 1994. |
| 1:20.0 | When the investigator did the autopsy, they concluded she died |
| 1:26.0 | because of blunt force trauma to her stomach |
| 1:31.0 | that had caused a portion of her intestines to burst. |
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