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Nolan Wells, The Anthony Appeal, and Big Tigger's Wife · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: An eighteen year old is dead in Mississippi after going
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  Speaker 1: missing on a fourth of July boat trip.
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  Speaker 2: And we're still waiting for one hundred percent confirmation.
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony's new attorneys have filed an appill and they're
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  Speaker 1: asking the judge in the case to be removed.
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  Speaker 2: And I know I made people mad, but I'm not
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  Speaker 2: here to make them happy either.
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  Speaker 1: And Big Tigger's a strange wife has been arrested in
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  Speaker 1: Georgia on kidnapping related warrants. It's Wednesday, July eighth. From
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  Speaker 1: the Black Effect podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown. This is
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  Speaker 1: front page, and here are the day's biggest stories. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with me. An eighteen year old from Mississippi has been
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  Speaker 1: found dead days after going missing on a fourth of
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  Speaker 1: July boat trip. His name was Nolan Xavier Wells, a
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  Speaker 1: former multi sport athlete out of Ocean Springs High School
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  Speaker 1: and a college football player at Southwest Mississippi Community College.
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  Speaker 1: Nolan is black, and on fourth of July he went
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  Speaker 1: out with a group of friends on a boat, all
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  Speaker 1: who were white. They went to Horn Island, a barrier
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  Speaker 1: island about ten miles off the Gulf Coast. His friends
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  Speaker 1: came back, but Nolan did not, and according to the
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  Speaker 1: Jackson County Sheriff, his friend said Nolan chose to stay
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  Speaker 1: on the island. His mother reported him missing over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: A search was launched by the sheriff Department, the Coastguard,
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Marine Resources, and the Gulf Island National Seashore.
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  Speaker 1: A body was recovered Monday morning near Horn Island. Authority
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  Speaker 1: say they suspect Nolan drowned, but they are still investigating.
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  Speaker 1: The sheriff says there is no evidence of foul play.
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  Speaker 2: Number One, give the family space and time. They are
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  Speaker 2: still process in this tragic event in all of Nolan's
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  Speaker 2: close friends, and we're still waiting for one hundred percent confirmation.
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  Speaker 2: I'll assure you that the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, we're
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  Speaker 2: looking at this whole case just like we would any other,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to be as thorough as we can.
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  Speaker 1: Lee is not accepting that answer and have hired civil
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  Speaker 1: rights attorney Ben Crump. Crump is now demanding a full,
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  Speaker 1: transparent investigation. Authorities are also now investigating a viral video
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  Speaker 1: that appears to show an argument on Horn Island the
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  Speaker 1: day Nolan went missing. Will continue to watch this case,
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  Speaker 1: and there are new developments unfolding in the Carmelo Anthony case.
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  Speaker 1: His new legal team has officially filed an appeal. They
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  Speaker 1: are asking the judge John Roach, he's the judge who
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  Speaker 1: presided over the trial, to step down. Anthony was convicted
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  Speaker 1: last month of the murder of Austin Metcalf. He was
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to thirty five years. The new attorneys a pro
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  Speaker 1: bono team of six that include former Dallas County Prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsloe, and Brooke Clues
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  Speaker 1: of beIN Crump Law. They filed two things on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: One the appeal, The team argues the court restrict the
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  Speaker 1: public's access in a way that violated Carmelo's rights, that
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  Speaker 1: unwritten agreement about character evidence was broken by prosecutors, and
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  Speaker 1: that the judge only gave the defense ten minutes to
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  Speaker 1: counsel a nineteen year old on whether to take the
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  Speaker 1: stand in his own defense. Two, a request to have
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  Speaker 1: the judge removed altogether. The reason the interviews that Judge
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  Speaker 1: Roach has done since the verdict. The judge sat down
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  Speaker 1: with WFAA, he talked to Fox News. He wrote a
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  Speaker 1: signed letter to the quote Polin County Family. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: those interviews, the judge called Carmelo Anthony quote a nice
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  Speaker 1: young man. He said the jury got it right, and
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  Speaker 1: he defended the all non black jury. He called the
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  Speaker 1: work on the trial one of the greatest honors of
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  Speaker 1: his judicial career.
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  Speaker 2: And I know I made people mad, but I'm not
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  Speaker 2: here to make them happy either. You God denied the
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  Speaker 2: defense and the dismissing of three jurors who at least
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  Speaker 2: identified as African American on their bioforms. What did you
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  Speaker 2: make of that moment? The defense raised an objection and
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  Speaker 2: raised an objection. Yeah, yeah, they have raised an objection.
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  Speaker 2: Like I told you before, as long as I follow
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  Speaker 2: the law, I sleep well at night. And I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you I follow the law in that case. Did I
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  Speaker 2: know what the perception was going to be? Sure? I
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  Speaker 2: knew in the back of my mind what the perception
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  Speaker 2: was going to be. But I'm not here to satisfy perceptions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not here to satisfy agendas. I'm not here to
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  Speaker 2: do any of those things. I'm here to follow the law,
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  Speaker 2: and I did it to a t.
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  Speaker 1: The attorneys say all of that violates the state's Judicial
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  Speaker 1: Conduct Code, because the judge still has the authority to
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  Speaker 1: grant a new trial. Meanwhile, the judge has sealed the
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  Speaker 1: entire court file and is only allowing Carmelo's attorneys to
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  Speaker 1: view it in his chambers. And that's happening on one
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  Speaker 1: condition that they do not share what they see. The appeal, though,
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  Speaker 1: is now on the docket. And now to our last
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  Speaker 1: story of the day, Big Tigger's estrange wife has been arrested.
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  Speaker 1: Alicia Brown was pulled over in Georgia on Monday night
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  Speaker 1: on an outstanding kidnapping related warrant out of the state
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  Speaker 1: of Maryland. According to the Hart County sheriff Office, deputies
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  Speaker 1: tracked her SUV down after receiving a BOLO. She was
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  Speaker 1: arrested during a felony traffic stop on Interstate eighty five
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  Speaker 1: without incident. Two young children were also in the car,
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  Speaker 1: and they were safely recovered. TMZ is reporting that one
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  Speaker 1: of those children is the child she shares with Big Tigger.
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  Speaker 1: The Maryland warrants, according to investigators, sim from the twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen disappearance of a ten year old child. She is
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  Speaker 1: now facing a felony interference with child custody charge in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: and officials say she will be extradited to Maryland. For
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  Speaker 1: those who missed the first chapter of this story, Big
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  Speaker 1: Tigger himself, whose legal name is Darien Morgan, was arrested
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  Speaker 1: last month in Sandy Springs, Georgia, charged with aggravated battery
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  Speaker 1: and third degree cruelty to children. Ring camera footage later's
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  Speaker 1: surface appearing to show him physically confronting Alicia at the home.
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  Speaker 1: He was granted a temporary protective order after that arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Big Tigger has denied every allegation and has stepped away
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  Speaker 1: from his radio show.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say categorically, these allegation and accusations that
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  Speaker 3: have been circulating about me are false, untrue, not happening,
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  Speaker 3: didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Now his estranged wife is facing her own set of
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  Speaker 1: charges tied to a twenty nineteen case. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: more coming out of this story and we will continue
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  Speaker 1: to keep you updated. But from now, that's your front
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  Speaker 1: cage a Mimi Brown. This podcast was brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by the Black Effect Podcast Network.