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Judge Restores White House Press Access, Second Arrest in Tasia Fortune Case & Lindsay Clancy Jurors Stay Sealed · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The White House tried to keep three major news organizations out,
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  Speaker 1: and now a federal judge just stepped in.
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  Speaker 2: You get so tired of reading and seeing fake news.
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  Speaker 1: And a second man is now charged in the death
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  Speaker 1: of Tasia Fortune, and police say they are still looking
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  Speaker 1: for someone else.
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  Speaker 3: That arrest today is an important development in this investigation,
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  Speaker 3: but it is not the conclusion. This case remains active
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  Speaker 3: and additional arrests will be pending.
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  Speaker 1: And in the Lindsay Clancy case, the judge is taking
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  Speaker 1: new steps to protect the identities of people who served
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  Speaker 1: and those who could have served on the jury.
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  Speaker 2: Is a holdout juror a person, a black man?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: A black man is a holdout juror?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, September 25th. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Amy Brown. This is Front Page, and here are
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  Speaker 1: the day's biggest stories. Stay with me. A federal judge
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  Speaker 1: has ordered the White House to immediately give CNN, Political,
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  Speaker 1: and MSNOW their press passes back. The judge in the
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  Speaker 1: case issued a temporary restraining order after President Trump banned
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  Speaker 1: three news organizations from the White House. Their credentials were
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  Speaker 1: revoked September 18th. The next day, reporters showed up for
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  Speaker 1: work and were turned away.
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  Speaker 4: I attempted to scan my badge, which we have to do,
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  Speaker 4: unable to get into the White House grounds.
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  Speaker 1: It did not work.
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  Speaker 4: There was a red beeping light. And so the officer
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  Speaker 4: asked me to hand over my badge. He said that
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  Speaker 4: it was disabled. I asked why I was not able
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  Speaker 4: to get inside. He said it was above him.
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  Speaker 1: CNN Political and MSNOW sued, arguing the ban violated the
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment. The Trump administration argued the outlets had published
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  Speaker 1: information that threatened national security. But the judge questioned that
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  Speaker 1: argument and said the news organizations are likely to show
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  Speaker 1: the White House did not give them proper due process
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  Speaker 1: before taking their credentials away. His order requires the White
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  Speaker 1: House to restore those passes immediately. But this is not
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  Speaker 1: the end of the case. That order only lasts for
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  Speaker 1: 14 days while the larger lawsuit continues. And a second
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  Speaker 1: man is now charged with murder in the death of
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  Speaker 1: Tasia Fortune. Tasia was a 29-year-old black mother of four
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  Speaker 1: whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a
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  Speaker 1: vacant home in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 3rd. Police have
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  Speaker 1: now arrested 25-year-old Ernest Lloyd Jr. He has been denied bond.
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  Speaker 1: And police say they're not done, and a warrant has
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  Speaker 1: been issued for a third suspect.
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  Speaker 4: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Marshals are helping police find that person.
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  Speaker 3: We secured two search warrants and an arrest warrant for
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  Speaker 3: Jacques Ratliff, also known as Jacques.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Ratliff was not at the location when officers arrived. However,
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  Speaker 3: as our staff and team were returning to JPD headquarters,
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  Speaker 3: they encountered Mr. Ratliff walking along Capitol Street. Officers took
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  Speaker 3: him into custody without any incident. That arrest today.
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  Speaker 1: Is an important.
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  Speaker 3: Development in this investigation, but it is not the conclusion.
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  Speaker 3: This case remains active. An additional arrest will be pending
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  Speaker 3: as our investigators continue to follow the evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The first suspect, 51-year-old Jacquees Radcliffe, court documents accuse him
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  Speaker 1: of using a black cable cord to hang Tasia from
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  Speaker 1: the tree. He has pled not guilty. And the medical
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  Speaker 1: examiner has ruled Tasia's death a homicide. Her mother, Christy Spivey,
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  Speaker 1: says her family wants justice.
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  Speaker 2: No human being deserves any of this. None. You know,
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  Speaker 2: she was there for four days and people just walked by.
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  Speaker 2: I know my daughter, you know, and she said before
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  Speaker 2: that if anything ever happened to her or somebody tried
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  Speaker 2: to do something, she would get every piece of DNA
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  Speaker 2: she could, you know. So evidently she did something like
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  Speaker 2: that or something.
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  Speaker 1: Police have not said what they believe led to Tasia's
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  Speaker 1: killing or what role each suspect allegedly played. The investigation continues.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, there's another development in the Lindsay Clancy case,
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  Speaker 1: this one involving the jurors. A judge has now ordered
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  Speaker 1: the names of the people called for jury duty along
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  Speaker 1: with their questionnaires to remain sealed from the public. That
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  Speaker 1: expands an earlier order keeping the names of the jurors
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  Speaker 1: who actually heard the case private. Judge William Sullivan says
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  Speaker 1: there is a real concern about juror safety because of
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  Speaker 1: the enormous attention surrounding the case. Remember, Clancy's trial ended
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  Speaker 1: in a mistrial earlier this month after the jury could
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  Speaker 1: not reach a unanimous decision. Eleven jurors were prepared to
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  Speaker 1: find her not criminally responsible. One juror, Michael Devonsrill, disagreed.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, Devonsrill has faced intense public attention, and the
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  Speaker 1: judge says most of the other jurors have chosen to
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  Speaker 1: remain anonymous. This order does not prevent jurors from speaking
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  Speaker 1: publicly if they choose to. And separately, Clancy's defense is
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  Speaker 1: asking the judge to investigate whether Devonsville used his cell
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  Speaker 1: phone during deliberations, something his attorney has not admitted, which
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  Speaker 1: remains an allegation. Clancy has pled not guilty to killing
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  Speaker 1: her three children. Her defense says she was suffering from
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  Speaker 1: a postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they
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  Speaker 1: will retry her. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown.
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