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Euri Jenkins and the murder of Makeva Jenkins [True Crime documentary] · NO FILTER

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Speaker 1: My wife was a good wife. She was a good mom,
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Speaker 1: she was an entrepreneur. She came from not then to
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Speaker 1: some point.
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Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Kevin, and welcome back to Just Thought Lounge.
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Speaker 2: This is the true crime channel that delivers serious, well
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Speaker 2: balanced coverage of the cases that really make you think.
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Speaker 2: On the night of the twenty ninth of June twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 2: in Palm Beach County, Florida, a masked assailant broke into
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Speaker 2: the home of the Jenkins family in the early morning hours.
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Speaker 2: The intruder, armed with a revolver, was not in the
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Speaker 2: house for very long, but when he left, he had
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Speaker 2: taken what he came for, the life of thirty three
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Speaker 2: year old Mikivah Jenkins. Mkiva was a loving wife and
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Speaker 2: mother of three, pregnant with her fourth child. She was
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Speaker 2: a successful entrepreneur and active in her church and community.
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Speaker 2: Inconceivable as it seemed that anyone would wish her dead.
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Speaker 2: Family and friends nonetheless quickly began to speculate about what
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Speaker 2: could have made the young businesswoman target. While her husband, Yury,
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Speaker 2: grieved and spoke openly about his loss, police began to
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Speaker 2: question whether there was more to this attack than meets
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Speaker 2: the eye, and after many months, they believed they had
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Speaker 2: discovered the identity of the man behind the mask and
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Speaker 2: his motive. Let's take a look. Mkivah Jenkins lived her
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Speaker 2: own version of the American dream. Her story was a
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Speaker 2: rags to richest struggle full of hard work, disappointments, persistence,
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Speaker 2: and finally wealth and success. Mkivah grew up in Bell
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Speaker 2: Glade in Palm Beach County. She graduated from the University
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Speaker 2: of South Florida with a BA in criminology and then
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Speaker 2: went on to earn a master's degree in social work
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Speaker 2: from Barry University in two thousand and nine. This same year,
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Speaker 2: on New Year's Eve, Mikivah was attending a church event
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Speaker 2: and met the man that would later become her husband,
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Speaker 2: Yuri Jenkins. Both active in their church, The two were
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Speaker 2: also in sync with their life plans. Mkivah had initiative
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Speaker 2: to spare, so while she launched her own small businesses,
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Speaker 2: she encouraged Yuri to follow his passions as well. He
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Speaker 2: pursued his own business as a barber. Unfortunately, mckiva's party
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Speaker 2: design business failed in twenty twelve, alongside her nonprofit that
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Speaker 2: sought to provide support services in her local community. Undeterred,
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Speaker 2: Mkivah founded the Prime Enterprise Group, a consulting company that
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Speaker 2: supported entrepreneurial clients with business planning, coaching, mentorship, and educational webinars.
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Speaker 2: She regularly held live events online where she shared her
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Speaker 2: own story and offered advice to those seeking to take
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Speaker 2: the leap and become their own boss.
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Speaker 3: People that know my story, they'll say, well, Makiva, you
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Speaker 3: used to have a non private used to have an
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Speaker 3: event planning company. You owned a bootique. Hey, Felicia, Felicia,
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Speaker 3: how are you thank you for chiming in? I live
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Speaker 3: on the edge too.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 3: So when I started, I've always written business plans for
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Speaker 3: my family and friends, but I didn't do it as
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Speaker 3: a company. I was still trying to figure out what
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Speaker 3: my niche was and what I wanted to do. And
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Speaker 3: it was my husband that suggested I start a consulting company,
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Speaker 3: and I'm like, we don't have any money for that.
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to get the boutique off the ground. I
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Speaker 3: was still doing event planning here and there, and I
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Speaker 3: still had my nonprofit. Again, I'm pulled in so many
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Speaker 3: different areas because I'm just trying to make ends meet
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Speaker 3: and bring money in to help my husband pay the bills,
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Speaker 3: because as well, it's not like it used to be
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Speaker 3: in the past, where men are the sole providers. Women
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Speaker 3: get out there and hustle, they do the work, and
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Speaker 3: they kind of meet each other in the middle. Least,
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Speaker 3: that's what me and my husband do.
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Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, Nikiva was thirty three years old and
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Speaker 2: a mother to three children. Mikiva and Yuri had two children,
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Speaker 2: aged seven and one. She also had a thirteen year
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Speaker 2: old daughter who was staying with her father. On the
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Speaker 2: night of June twenty ninth, it was a Thursday, A
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Speaker 2: nine to one to one call brought law enforcement and
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Speaker 2: emergency services to the Jenkins family home around two am. There,
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Speaker 2: responders rushed upstairs to the second level master bedroom, where
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Speaker 2: they found Yuri distraught holding the Kiva, who had suffered
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Speaker 2: a gunshot wound to the head. Paramedics tried what they
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Speaker 2: could but were unsuccessful. Present at the house was Mikiva's brother, Markavius,
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Speaker 2: and a friend of Yuri's named Dmitri Dale. The three
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Speaker 2: men were in the garage just before two am, where
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Speaker 2: Yuri had been giving Markavius a haircut when a massed
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Speaker 2: intruder forced his way through the unlocked garage door. The
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Speaker 2: masked man was dressed entirely in black. He had fabric
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Speaker 2: wrapped around his head and face, and he carried a
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Speaker 2: loaded revolver. The men were diructed to lay down on
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Speaker 2: the ground following these instructions. The intruder then asked them
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Speaker 2: for the location of Quest, the name of Mikiva's mother.
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Speaker 2: The intruder indicated that he was owed money, but Quest
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Speaker 2: did not live at the house and was not a
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Speaker 2: frequent visitor. Confused in attempting to explain, the men were
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Speaker 2: then ushered inside the house. Dmitri requested that they take
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Speaker 2: the child that was present out of the house, a
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Speaker 2: proposal that the intruder agreed to. Then, according to Markavius's account,
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Speaker 2: the gunman went upstairs with Yuri briefly while he forced
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Speaker 2: the other two men to remain on the lower level.
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Speaker 2: He came down once to demand car keys from Dmitri,
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Speaker 2: who handed over the keys to a white Dodge charger.
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Speaker 2: The massman then entered the bedroom on his own. Markavius
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Speaker 2: stood with his brother in law outside of the room
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Speaker 2: Dmitri downstairs. They listened while a gunshot rang out from
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Speaker 2: the bedroom. A moment later, the massman left the house,
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Speaker 2: then drove off in the Dodge Charger. Marcavius phoned nine
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Speaker 2: to one one. Mkifah's family suspected that they knew what
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Speaker 2: had led to the young business woman's death her social
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Speaker 2: media posts displaying her success. Two days prior to the
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Speaker 2: mass man breaking into her home, Mkivah had posted a
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Speaker 2: short biographical post to her Facebook page, one that offered
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Speaker 2: both personal and financial details. Mkivah's approach to her live
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Speaker 2: video postings for her business and her social media in
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Speaker 2: general were very open and honest. These made her relatable,
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Speaker 2: but also gave her credibility because she could speak to
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Speaker 2: her own success. But in this last post, Mkiva may
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Speaker 2: have gone too far. A few years before, she turned
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Speaker 2: down a business course because she couldn't afford the ninety
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Speaker 2: nine dollars fee. She wrote, I am in awe of
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Speaker 2: how far I've come fast forward to now. We overcame
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Speaker 2: being homeless in twenty thirteen and fourteen, to reaching my
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Speaker 2: six figure mark in twenty fifteen, to now making multi
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Speaker 2: six figures. In the immediate aftermath of her killing, family
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Speaker 2: began to wonder if it could be a coincidence that
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Speaker 2: so soon after posting about her financial success that a
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Speaker 2: masked man broke into her home. Uri spoke with media
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Speaker 2: in the days following the incident. The grieving husband tried
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Speaker 2: his best to convey what kind of a person Makiba
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Speaker 2: was and what she meant to him.
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Speaker 1: She was a good month, She kept me level.
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Speaker 5: How do you want people to be remembered, to remember Mikidah.
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Speaker 1: She was an entrepreneur. She was that. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and we just clicked together. We used to
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Speaker 1: call ourselves jay Z and Beyonce, a power couple.
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Speaker 2: Uri was asked about the negative stories that had emerged
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Speaker 2: after the attack, speculation that Mkivah's boasting about her success
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Speaker 2: online had been the impetus for the masked man to
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Speaker 2: break into the house.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, honestly, honestly, everybody can go to hell. My wife
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Speaker 1: was a good wife. She was a good mom. She
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Speaker 1: was an entrepreneur. She came from nothing to south.
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Speaker 2: Investigators had one good lead, the white Dodge charger that
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Speaker 2: the mask man had driven from the scene of the murder.
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Speaker 2: Detectives began collecting and scanning all available security cameras, in
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Speaker 2: the neighborhood, and of course any that could have captured
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Speaker 2: the house. They found a vehicle with two men entering
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Speaker 2: the area around two am, and then the charger was
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Speaker 2: seen exiting the neighborhood approximately eighteen minutes later. Outside of
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Speaker 2: the area, investigators tracked the car traveling north away from
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Speaker 2: the murder scene. Cameras tracked the Dodge Charger to a
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Speaker 2: three to four block radius, where they determined, based on
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Speaker 2: surrounding cameras, that the car must have been left. The
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Speaker 2: driver was presumably picked up by the darker, unidentified vehicle
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Speaker 2: that could be seen following behind it, but they thought
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Speaker 2: it was also possible the intruder then fled on foot.
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Speaker 2: None of the cameras captured the men in these vehicles
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Speaker 2: clearly enough to identify them. However, within the few blocks
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Speaker 2: to where the car was tracked, it was found abandoned.
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Speaker 2: Inside it, officers saw the keys and a black T shirt,
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Speaker 2: Recognizing that vehicle was central to locating Mkiva's killer. Lead
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Speaker 2: Detective Sean Oliver of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
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Speaker 2: made a plead to the public for any information on
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Speaker 2: the car and its driver.
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Speaker 5: We do have something specific that we're asking the public
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Speaker 5: if they saw something at a particular time, and that
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Speaker 5: is because the suspect, after murdering Mkiva, left the scene
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Speaker 5: in a white Dodge Charger. He abandoned the charger on
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Speaker 5: Lawrence Road just south of Pensacola, which is about zero
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Speaker 5: point nine miles from the scene. We believe that either
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Speaker 5: that person left on foot had a car waiting for them,
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Speaker 5: and we are just asking that anyone in that area
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Speaker 5: between the hours one to fifty in the morning and
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Speaker 5: two twenty in the morning on in June twenty ninth,
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Speaker 5: which is a Thursday, if they saw a car on
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Speaker 5: the shoulder of the road, if they saw anyone walking,
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Speaker 5: please call the Sheriff's office.
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Speaker 2: Despite the potential of the rental car lead, it failed
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Speaker 2: to deliver a prime suspect. However, the stories of what
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Speaker 2: happened that night told to the police by the three
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Speaker 2: men came under intense scrutiny. Detective Oliver questioned the likelihood
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Speaker 2: that this attack was motivated by mckieva's social media and indeed,
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Speaker 2: if it was, the killer was still likely to be
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Speaker 2: someone personally connected to her. Dmitri Dale came under the
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Speaker 2: most scrutiny. Curiously, Dmitri had arrived at the Jenkins house
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Speaker 2: that night only minutes before the masked man, and the
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Speaker 2: police believed that this man must have had assistance reaching
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Speaker 2: the house that night, as he managed to flee after
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Speaker 2: the murder only by stealing the family vehicle. The big
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Speaker 2: break finally came months later when Dmitri, Dale, under suspicion
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Speaker 2: of being involved and facing murder charges, finally decided to
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Speaker 2: cooperate with the police. He directed the investigator's attention to
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Speaker 2: a nineteen year old acquaintance of his named Jovan Joseph. Jovan,
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Speaker 2: Dmitri said, had been tight on cash and so was
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Speaker 2: convinced to break into the Jenkins' home. The nineteen year
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Speaker 2: old was then arrested and charged with first degree murder.
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Speaker 2: Jovan initially denied any involvement. Possessions of value had been
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Speaker 2: left in plain sight throughout the house, even mckievah's laptop
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Speaker 2: and other electroducs were left directly next to her. Aside
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Speaker 2: from the promptly abandoned rental car, the mass man left
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Speaker 2: with nothing of value. The story that Dmitri told, however,
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Speaker 2: was not one of a burglary gone wrong, but of
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Speaker 2: a murder for hire. Yuri Jenkins, the distraught, grieving husband,
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Speaker 2: was behind the murder of his wife. Dmitri said Yuri
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Speaker 2: was no longer in love with his wife and he
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Speaker 2: believed he would benefit financially if she was dead. Dmitri
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Speaker 2: said that he had arranged for Jovan and Yuri to
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Speaker 2: meet the day before the murder. An initial deposit had
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Speaker 2: been made and the plan was set.
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Speaker 6: Yuri, did you tell your wife?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 6: I didn't.
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Speaker 7: You said you were innocent.
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Speaker 6: I am innocent and what happened, God will vindicate me.
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Speaker 3: What do you have to say about this year?
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Speaker 6: This is the book God have vindicating innocent. Yes, I am.
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Speaker 2: Yury Jenkins was indicted for first degree murder in December
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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. He spoke voluntarily with investigators for two hours.
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Speaker 2: He maintained his innocence throughout and denied any knowledge of
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Speaker 2: Jovan's plan to shoot his wife. He had been introduced
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Speaker 2: to Jovan. He said he had seen the man sitting
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Speaker 2: on his couch, but they had nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: each other and they never discussed a murder. Yury pled
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Speaker 2: not guilty and the case was set for trial. Jury's
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Speaker 2: selection was anticipated to begin in the summer of twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 2: But on the day that this was due to take place,
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Speaker 2: another development unfolded. Jovin had agreed to a deal with
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Speaker 2: state prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to a charge of second
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Speaker 2: degree murder. He agreed to testify against Yuri at trial,
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Speaker 2: and in exchange, he would receive a significantly reduced sentence.
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Speaker 4: Aunt Joseph just got probably one of the sweetest deals
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Speaker 4: I've seen in a homicide case. In the thirty four
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Speaker 4: years out of the criminal defense attorney. Theoretically, the judge
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Speaker 4: can give him as little as five years in the
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Speaker 4: Department of Corrections, and the most he can get his
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Speaker 4: twenty years in the Department of Corrections. The state waived
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Speaker 4: in a mandatory minimum sense. I mean, Jovon Joseph is
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Speaker 4: accused of shooting this young woman in the head at
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Speaker 4: point blank range, in killing her, and he's going to
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Speaker 4: serve at worse seventeen and a half years in prison
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Speaker 4: once we get rid of gain time, when he was
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Speaker 4: looking at twenty five years to life before.
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Speaker 2: Jovin had told detectives that Yuri paid him fifteen hundred
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Speaker 2: dollars up front for the killing. Another ten thousand would
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Speaker 2: be to him after the deed was done. Jovan said
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Speaker 2: he purchased the gun used from a friend for sixty dollars,
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Speaker 2: dressed in black clothing, wrapped a T shirt around his
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Speaker 2: head as a face mask. Once in the house, Yuri
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Speaker 2: showed him to where Mikiba was sleeping. He walked up,
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Speaker 2: took aim, and pulled the trigger. Both Dmitri Dale and
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Speaker 2: jo Van Joseph were set to be key witnesses at trial.
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Speaker 2: In January twenty twenty. An initial attempt at the prosecution
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Speaker 2: ended in a mistrial after jurors were told by Mikiba's
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Speaker 2: mother outside of court that Uri was absolutely, inarguably guilty.
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Speaker 2: COVID pandemic delays meant that Yuri would not face another
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Speaker 2: jury of his peers until spring twenty twenty two. By then,
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Speaker 2: the key witness testimony was showing some cracks.
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Speaker 8: You're going to hear that Dmitri Dale gave statement on
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Speaker 8: June thirtieth of twenty seventeen. We're going to hear that
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Speaker 8: he gave another statement on August fourteenth of twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 9: You're going to hear that he gave another statement.
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Speaker 10: In October of twenty and fourteen.
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Speaker 11: He was doing all kinds of giving.
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Speaker 8: All kinds of statements, making all kinds of statements that
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Speaker 8: were consistently inconsistent with each other. They have to testify
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Speaker 8: to the satisfaction of the government of the prosecution. They
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Speaker 8: have to testify in a way that convinces.
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Speaker 10: The prosecution.
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Speaker 8: That they're being truth despite the fact that they are
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Speaker 8: both admitted waters, despite the fact that they have a
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Speaker 8: distrut of not telling the truth, despite wearing to tell
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Speaker 8: the truth, despite the fact that neither of them can
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Speaker 8: agree on what allegedly happened, or at least I worried
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Speaker 8: that they're supposed to tell it about what happened.
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Speaker 2: When Joe Van took the stand, he told the jury
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Speaker 2: he was paid ten thousand dollars up front from Yuri,
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Speaker 2: not fifteen hundred as he had told investigators. He further
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Speaker 2: told investigators that Dmitri had also received cash for his
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Speaker 2: role in the plan. A stack of cash was handed
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Speaker 2: to Dmitri from Yuri, he said, a statement that directly
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Speaker 2: contradicted what Dmitri had told the police of his involvement.
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Speaker 9: And on that day you said this is right before
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Speaker 9: you were leaving, is when you got paid the money correct.
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Speaker 9: And you were sitting in the cars where you testified,
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Speaker 9: and mister Jenkins handed you ten thousand dollars in cash,
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Speaker 9: And is it true he also had a ten thousand
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Speaker 9: dollars in cash to mister Dale.
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Speaker 11: That's what I assumed, miss.
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Speaker 9: He handed a pile of cash to mister Dale. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 9: you did an account mister Dale's cash, right, But you
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Speaker 9: assumed it was the same amount as yours.
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Speaker 11: Yes, sir, because they're about the.
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Speaker 9: Same height for the sacks, about the same size.
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Speaker 11: Oh, I don't know, sir.
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Speaker 9: Look at the money he got, No, sir, but you
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Speaker 9: looked at the money you got, right, And you testified
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Speaker 9: they were all hundreds right.
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Speaker 11: I don't remember, sir.
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Speaker 9: You don't remember that if they're all hundred dollars bills?
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Speaker 11: You asked him? You you said that I testified it was
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Speaker 11: a one hundred dollars.
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Speaker 9: No, I'm asking right now. Were they all one hundred
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Speaker 9: dollar bills? I don't remember, sir, You don't remember.
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Speaker 2: Text messages between Dmitri and Joe van It showed the
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Speaker 2: men discussing how they were both as struggling financially, only
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Speaker 2: days after each had apparently received large payments from yuri
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Speaker 2: URI's defense raised questions as to whether these payments had
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Speaker 2: ever actually been made.
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Speaker 9: Is that a text message that you're familiar with, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 9: and that's a text message you sent to mister Dale.
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Speaker 11: Correct, Yes, sir. And in that text message, you.
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Speaker 9: Say, Bro, bring me twenty I need it for gas.
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Speaker 9: Meet me somewhere.
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Speaker 11: That's correct, Yes, sir. So that's.
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Speaker 9: About three days after you got ten thousand dollars in cash.
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Speaker 9: You need money for gas?
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Speaker 11: Yes, yes, sir.
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Speaker 9: Let me say you one more texts all up here
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Speaker 9: July second, twenty seventeen, at twelve fifty four pm. That's
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Speaker 9: about five minutes after your text. Do you recognize that message?
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Speaker 11: Yes, sir, and that's.
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Speaker 9: A message from mister Dale to you. Correct, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 9: and he replies, I have no money, Bro, I'm broke
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Speaker 9: and I'm bringing this car back.
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Speaker 11: Correct. That's do then Dale to you.
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Speaker 6: Correct.
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Speaker 9: That's his response to you saying give me twenty bucks.
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Speaker 9: He's saying I don't have any I'm broke.
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Speaker 11: That correct.
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Speaker 9: The same day, July second, twenty seventeen, about five minutes
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Speaker 9: after your text, Yes, sir, you remember that, yes, sir, so,
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Speaker 9: he doesn't have any money left.
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Speaker 11: According to this either correct Dale, Yes, yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Further discrepancies existed between Jovn and Dmitri's testimony regarding the
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Speaker 2: gun used in the murder. Dmitri Dale testified that the
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Speaker 2: gun used by Jovan had been provided directly by Yuri,
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Speaker 2: or so he believed from the conversations they had held,
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Speaker 2: but again, his accomplice, Joe Van, told a different story.
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Speaker 2: He testified that he had purchased the gun himself, a revolver,
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Speaker 2: based on the suggestion of Dimitri Dale.
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Speaker 9: When you got that money at that time, you didn't
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Speaker 9: have the gun yet, correct, the revolver. In fact, you
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Speaker 9: went from mister Jenkins house to find snake Word to
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Speaker 9: get the gun, yes, sir. And whose idea was.
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Speaker 7: It to get a revolver?
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Speaker 11: Dale's idea?
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Speaker 9: And why did he say, to get a revolver leaves
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Speaker 9: leaves no shells. You know what does that mean to you?
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Speaker 9: Leaves no shells.
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Speaker 11: There's not enough evidence for the police collect.
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Speaker 9: Like like the cartridge. When you shoot the gun, it
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Speaker 9: doesn't leave a shell on the floor, yes, sir, okay.
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Speaker 9: And mister Dale's one who explained that to you. Correct, yes, sir,
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Speaker 9: you gave him one of those hundred dollar bills that
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Speaker 9: you had from mister Jenkins.
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Speaker 11: I don't know if it wasn't. I don't know how
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Speaker 11: much I paid for it there well, how much?
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Speaker 7: How much was the gun?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I didn't pay a hundred for it, I know
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Speaker 11: a hundred for.
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Speaker 9: It's five Before that the gun was sixty dollars. Does
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Speaker 9: that sound right?
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Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 9: And when you gave him on hundred, he gave you
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Speaker 9: back change, yes, sir. This is the drug dealer that
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Speaker 9: provides change.
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Speaker 2: Despite the uncertainty in Jovan's testimony and the contradictions and
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Speaker 2: stories being told, both key witnesses nonetheless provided damning details
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Speaker 2: of the murder plot. Jovan told jurors how the three
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Speaker 2: had held a brainstorming session the day before to explore
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Speaker 2: ideas of how to kill Mikiva. They discussed the possibility
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Speaker 2: of killing her at work, of getting into a traffic accident,
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Speaker 2: and of potentially staging an attack that appeared to target
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Speaker 2: both her and Yuri. Dmitri outlined the agreement arranged with
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Speaker 2: Yuri and Jovan.
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Speaker 12: I want to ask you these questions, mister, did this
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Speaker 12: defendant you're Jenkins?
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Speaker 10: Did he give you Jaman Joseph.
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Speaker 12: Access to his house on June twin in ninety twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 10: In the early one hours.
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Speaker 12: Did this defendant tell you that he want his wife killed?
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Speaker 11: Objection lead?
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Speaker 12: Just do you want?
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Speaker 10: I'm asking him?
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 12: Did this defend to tell you that he wanted his
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Speaker 12: wife killed? Did this defendant have discussion with you and
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Speaker 12: Jovan Joseph about killing his life?
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Speaker 11: Objection leading?
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Speaker 10: Oh, did this defendant asked you to bring Jovan Joseph
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Speaker 10: back to his house during the early morning hours of
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Speaker 10: June twenty, ninety, twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 2: The third man that had been in the house that night,
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Speaker 2: Markavias Mkivah's brother, took the stand to outline what he
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Speaker 2: had observed. It was the fourth day of the trial.
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Speaker 2: Overwhelmed by the testimony given up to that point, Marcavius
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Speaker 2: took a detour on his way to the witness stand,
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Speaker 2: and he walked it straight towards his former brother in
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Speaker 2: law before being intercepted by court bailiffs, held back, and
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Speaker 2: then escorted out of the courtroom.
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Speaker 13: I wanted to start by apologizing to the to the judge,
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Speaker 13: and I want to apologize for my actions and how
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Speaker 13: I disrupted everything. He tells us not to move. Get
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Speaker 13: down on the ground and don't move.
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Speaker 14: Okay, Now, are you able to have any type of
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Speaker 14: conversation with the defendant while you both are lying down
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Speaker 14: on the ground.
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Speaker 7: Yes, what are you both? Or who's sang what to whom?
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Speaker 5: He?
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Speaker 13: I'm as I told him that, Hey, isn't that your
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Speaker 13: friend from earlier that day that came? He told me no,
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Speaker 13: and then it went on to say that I went
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Speaker 13: on to say that, hey, we need to do something
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Speaker 13: bout this year. We can't just let this man come
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Speaker 13: in here and do whatever he want to do. You know,
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Speaker 13: we live here, the kids here. We gotta do something.
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Speaker 13: We can't just sit here.
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Speaker 14: So you both are down on the ground, you're somewhat
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Speaker 14: whispering to each other, and he, the gunman, is making
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Speaker 14: his way over to that hallway to the left where
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Speaker 14: your sister is asleep in her room.
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Speaker 7: Yes, and you said you're thinking you ask him, is
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Speaker 7: that your friend or the guy who came over earlier?
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Speaker 12: Yes?
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Speaker 7: Now which friend are you referring to?
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Speaker 14: Are you talking about the guy that came over with
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Speaker 14: Demitridale or someone else.
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Speaker 13: The one that came over with Demitridale.
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Speaker 7: And the defendant told you that that was not him.
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Speaker 13: Yes, I heard the gun go off.
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Speaker 7: How many times did you hear the gun go off?
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Speaker 13: One time?
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Speaker 7: And after the gun went off, what did the gunman do?
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Speaker 13: He's springing out. He ran out the room as if
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Speaker 13: he was you knowing a tract meet.
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Speaker 2: Phone records and witness statements showed that Mkivah had told
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Speaker 2: her husband in the days before her death that you
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Speaker 2: wanted a divorce. She had been pursuing this option in May,
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Speaker 2: only weeks before the murder, before having a change of
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Speaker 2: heart when she learned that she was pregnant. In addition,
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Speaker 2: Mkivah had a life insurance policy for half a million dollars.
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Speaker 2: Prosecutors argued that this payout was central to Yuri's motivation
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Speaker 2: to have his wife killed. There were two policies, one
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Speaker 2: of much less value, and Yuri believed that both had
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Speaker 2: been moved into his name. Days after the murder, while
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Speaker 2: making arrangements for Mkiva's funeral, Uri rang the insurance provider
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Speaker 2: to confirm the beneficiary information on the half million dollar policy.
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Speaker 2: Yuri was informed only after Mkiva had been killed that
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Speaker 2: he was not named on the insurance policy at all.
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Speaker 2: Mkivah had instead named her grandmother as the sole beneficiary.
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Speaker 15: Oh funeral because it's coming up and I can't.
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 15: We don't have the funds the people.
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Speaker 10: Okay, So who has to have the way?
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Speaker 9: Then?
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Speaker 10: Who has away people?
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Speaker 15: Okay?
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Speaker 9: And I am sorry for your lost right.
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Speaker 12: Let me get you over to our life benefits area
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Speaker 12: and they'll be able to help you.
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Speaker 15: If a kid, you're maybe a snaris sing or the.
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Speaker 7: Unfortunately I can't follow that their contact and.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna like to speak toile.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Oh wow.
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Speaker 4: This case is about way and lawars.
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Speaker 11: Plain and simple.
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Speaker 4: It is the burden of the government to provide you
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Speaker 4: with truthful, honest, sworn testimony.
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Speaker 14: He was there to take one thing only and that
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Speaker 14: was to snatch the.
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Speaker 7: Life of Makieva Jenkins. He was there to complete.
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Speaker 14: The job that the defendant asked him to do, and
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Speaker 14: he either received fifteen hundred dollars or ten thousand dollars,
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Speaker 14: and he was promised additional money. Twenty eight days before
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Speaker 14: her death that the one policy was changed, and he
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Speaker 14: assumed he assumed that the second policy had been changed also.
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Speaker 2: Yury Jenkins was found guilty of first degree murder in
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Speaker 2: May twenty twenty two Circuit Court Judge Kirk Voker immediately
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Speaker 2: sentenced Jenkins to life in prison.
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Speaker 9: The jury find as followers. As to count one, we
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Speaker 9: find the.
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Speaker 10: Defeated guilty of first degree murder as charged in the indictment.
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Speaker 2: For his part in plotting Mkiva's murderer, Dmitri Dale was
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Speaker 2: sentenced to forty five days in jail and probation. Although
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Speaker 2: he was originally indicted for first degree murder in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: which could have carried a potential life sentence without the
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Speaker 2: possibility of parole, Dmitri's cooperation ultimately earned him the lesser
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Speaker 2: charge of manslaughter with a weapon. Dmitri testified and then
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Speaker 2: was released on fifteen years probation. A few weeks after
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Speaker 2: Yuri's conviction, Jovan Joseph was sentenced to fifteen years in
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Speaker 2: prison for pulling the trigger in exchange for either fifteen
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Speaker 2: hundred or ten thousand dollars. He was given credit for
27:47
Speaker 2: the nearly five years that he had already spent detained
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Speaker 2: to that point. After the trial, defense attorney Greg Lherman
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Speaker 2: filed a motion for the court to either vacate the
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Speaker 2: verdict or order a new trial, arguing that the state
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Speaker 2: allowed contradictory and improper testimony from both Dimitri and Jovan.
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Speaker 2: This motion was denied as of taping. Your's appeal is pending.
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Speaker 2: He maintains his innocence.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm Mekiva with the Prime Enterprise Group.
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Speaker 6: Welcome.
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Speaker 3: I'm here to talk about business.
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Speaker 7: I wish I had that kind of impersonality.
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Speaker 3: All Right, I gotta go.
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Speaker 7: Pick these kids up from school.
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Speaker 13: Mommy duties are calling.
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Speaker 11: I'll talk to you guys later.
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Speaker 9: Bye.
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Speaker 2: And that was the tragic story of Mikivah Jenkins. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me once again. I'm Kevin. This is just
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Speaker 2: thought lounge and I'll see in the next one.