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heads up on today's show we talk about the details of a murder investigation take care of yourself

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Leah Litman has known Barry Jones name for five years now. She first heard about him from a story

that ran over at the intercept. This investigative piece with a bleak takeaway about how Arizona

was trying to execute an innocent man whose conviction rested on faulty evidence that had been

revealed to be faulty. Barry Jones is this man. A man on death row convicted of killing his

girlfriend's daughter, a preschooler named Rachel back in 1994. When the investigator did the

autopsy, they concluded she died because of blunt force trauma to her stomach that had caused a

portion of her intestines to burst and that that had caused her death. It sounds so brutal. It was.

When did it become clear that maybe something had gone wrong with this case?

So I think the unfortunate reality is that at various points and observer looking in, seeing what

was happening would have realized something is going horribly wrong and it just kept getting worse

and worse. First, Jones lawyers failed to fully investigate the crime and then they failed to call

in medical experts. After he got convicted, Barry Jones appealed. He said his lawyers hadn't done

their jobs. He started out in state courts, then he went to the federal. That got him new representation.

And this attorney said about correcting the record. They contacted actual medical experts and

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