Hey everybody it's Kevin Deets I hosted season two of shattered white boy Rick if you haven't heard it yet you can go back and hear all eight episodes in this feed

I know we're in the middle of season three of shattered right, but I'm back to let you know what's been going on with Rick and to tell you about a development in his story.

From the beginning, Rick's story has been about bad choices and bad luck.

It led him to spend almost two-thirds of his life in prison.

Arrested at 17 years old on a cocaine charge, now he's 49 and finally has a shot at becoming a free man.

Executive Clemency Board meeting is now called to order.

Before we begin, I'd like to ask Chaplin Barry Bochamp of the Department of Corrections to lead us in the

invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.

In late August 2017, Rick Worshie Jr. was released by the state of Michigan after winning parole for his life sentence from a cocaine conviction in 1988.

But after 29 years behind bars, he was not free to go home.

He was turned over to the custody of the state of Florida,

Department of Corrections.

That's because Rick pleaded guilty to being part of a car theft

ring from behind bars.

Here's Rick's lawyer, Ralph Maselli.

It was a stolen car ring.

They would steal luxury automobiles

from dealership used car lots. They would change the VIN numbers and then they would sell them.

And the guy that was the ringleader was in prison with Rick.

He was operating this out of a federal prison. Well Rick

called his mother and sister and said hey these are great deals. At the time Rick got involved in the car ring, he had just been turned down yet again for parole in Michigan and figured he'd never get out.

And when the chance came to make some money for his children,

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