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Conflict of Interest Shadowing LSU Student Madison Brooks' Accused Rapists' Trials | Crime Alert 08.08.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: A deep conflict of interest is casting a massive shadow
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  Speaker 1: over the judicial proceedings against the men accused of gang
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  Speaker 1: rape being LSU student Madison Brooks prior to her tragic death.
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  Speaker 1: The judge presiding over the high profile case, East Baton Rouge,
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  Speaker 1: Judge Gail Ray, has a son of her own who
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  Speaker 1: is a convicted sexual predator. Court record show forty six
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  Speaker 1: year old Nelson Taylor was convicted in nineteen ninety seven
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  Speaker 1: on several counts of forcible rape after admitting to assaulting
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  Speaker 1: multiple high school girls in the mid nineteen nineties. Taylor's
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  Speaker 1: recent motion to overturn those convictions forced all judges in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteenth Judicial District Court to accuse themselves from his
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  Speaker 1: case in December twenty twenty five. Now, questions of impartiality
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  Speaker 1: are engulfing the case against twenty one year old Desmond Carter,
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  Speaker 1: the first of three suspects set to stand trial on
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  Speaker 1: August seventeenth. Carter and two others allegedly gang raped nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Brooks after a night out in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: shortly before she was struck and killed. By a car
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  Speaker 1: District attorney, Hiller Moore, filed a motion seeking Ray's recusal
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  Speaker 1: from the trial of co defendant case and Carver, who
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  Speaker 1: faces charges of first degree rape, third degree rape, and
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  Speaker 1: video voyeurism. Carver waived his right to a jury trial,
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  Speaker 1: making Ray the sole decider of his case. Moore appointed
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  Speaker 1: to Ray's exposure to excluded evidence and text messages between
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  Speaker 1: Carver and his father where Carver explicitly claimed they were
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  Speaker 1: friends with Ray and that she knows to help us.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteenth Judicial District Judge Bradley Myers noted these statements showed
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  Speaker 1: Carver believe the judge was on his side. Although the
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana Supreme Court allowed Ray to remain on Carver's case,
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  Speaker 1: she recently ruled in the state's favor by allowing court
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  Speaker 1: spectators to wear pink in support of Brooks while banning
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  Speaker 1: T shirts with the victim's picture. Brooks's mother, Ashley beau Start,
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  Speaker 1: spoke out to Fox News digit regarding the upcoming court proceedings.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about anyone except for Madison bo Start and
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  Speaker 1: vowed to keep fighting for her daughter. I mean, nothing
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  Speaker 1: will bring Madison back, but we remain committed to honoring
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  Speaker 1: her life and ensuring that her voice has never forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: Carter's trial is set to begin August seventeenth. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this chilling nine to one to
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  Speaker 1: one dispatch audio reveals new details about a deadly neighbor
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  Speaker 1: dispute in House Springs, Missouri. On July twenty fifth, at
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  Speaker 1: eight thirty pm, seventy three year old Robert Winkleman walked
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  Speaker 1: to his neighbor's home to complain about noise and ongoing frustrations.
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  Speaker 1: When thirty eight year old Jessica Lashley responded, Winkleman shot
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  Speaker 1: her in the head. As lashly seventeen year old daughter,
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Greer, rushed to help, Winkleman shot the teen in
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  Speaker 1: the head as well. Both victims died days later at
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  Speaker 1: a hospital. Dispatch audio details how a friend of Jersey
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  Speaker 1: in a closet during the attack. We have a essential
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  Speaker 1: victim hiding in a closet advising that her friend got shot.
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  Speaker 2: We did have law en route there, not.
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  Speaker 1: On SAM dispatchers heard two gunshots in the background during
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  Speaker 1: the emergency call.
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  Speaker 2: The call no more no longer seeming or talk to
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  Speaker 2: anyone on the phone. We did your shots in the background.
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  Speaker 2: They advised as a female agonal breathing and it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like tosably, two gunshots went off. Is unclear what's going
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  Speaker 2: on At the time.
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  Speaker 1: Winkleman chased a third person while armed before returning home.
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  Speaker 1: When deputies arrived, Winkleman turned the gun on himself, dying
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  Speaker 1: on August second. Investigators stated he would have been charged
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  Speaker 1: with two counts of first degree murder and two counts
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  Speaker 1: of armed criminal action. Jersey's twin sister, Justice Greer, spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Katie s k about her sister's extraordinary bravery. Jersey's
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  Speaker 1: last moments like she was trying to save one mom
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  Speaker 1: and it's just like shows how great she was. My
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  Speaker 1: litticol bicking Bee's have as brave as she is. Justice
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  Speaker 1: says her mother always worked hard for their family, making
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  Speaker 1: the loss devastating. Moving forward, in Spokane County, Washington, the
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  Speaker 1: man accused of starting the devastating Old Trails fire had
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  Speaker 1: his bail double to two million dollars. On Thursday, thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven year old Aaron Forrest Faranacci faced Judge Jeremy Schmidt
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  Speaker 1: after prosecutor Preston McCollum requested the higher bond following four
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  Speaker 1: additional charges of first degree arson. Court documents reveal Faranacci
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  Speaker 1: admitted during interrogation to setting twenty five fires in the
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  Speaker 1: area since twenty twenty five. Farinacci was arrested on August
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  Speaker 1: third and initially denied involvement in the Old Trails Fire
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  Speaker 1: during a ninety minute interrogation before confessing to planning the
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  Speaker 1: blaze for two weeks. Detectives corroborated evidence linking him to
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  Speaker 1: four other blazes, including the Aubrey White Copper Fire, Fort George,
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  Speaker 1: and Indian Bluff fires. Faranacci con best to monitoring weather
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  Speaker 1: apps for ideal conditions and constructing a time delay ignition
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  Speaker 1: device out of paper matches, cigarettes, and rubber bands modeled
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  Speaker 1: after serial arsonist John Leonard. Orr. Documents also allege he
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  Speaker 1: deliberately ignited simultaneous fires to distract emergency response crews. The
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  Speaker 1: expanded charges follow widespread destruction caused by the Old Trails Fire,
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  Speaker 1: which erupted on August first. The blaze burned over thirty
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  Speaker 1: two hundred acres, destroyed roughly seven hundred homes and other buildings,
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  Speaker 1: and forced the evacuation of more than sixty thousand residents.
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  Speaker 1: Background checks showed Faranaci was previously convicted of manslaughter after
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  Speaker 1: fatally shooting his father in Arizona in twenty ten, serving
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  Speaker 1: about ten years in prison. His arrangement is now delayed
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  Speaker 1: after his defense requested a mental competency evaluation. For more
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  Speaker 1: and now streaming on TOUB with this crime alert, I'm
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