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Ben Crump Enters the Nolan Wells Case, Karmelo's Team Fires Back, and 50 Cent Goes to the Emmys · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Nolan Wells's parents are breaking their silence. They say they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe their son willingly stayed behind on a Mississippi
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  Speaker 1: island before he disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: It was his last weekend to half five. We can
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  Speaker 2: ac us that Monday he had to report to school.
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony's lawyers file a sixty three page motion claiming
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  Speaker 1: a secret deal closed doors, and only ten minutes to
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  Speaker 1: decide whether he would testify.
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  Speaker 3: This is a tragedy all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: And fifty Cent goes three for three at the Emmys
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  Speaker 1: with his Diddy documentary Like Wow, this is amazing. It's Monday,
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  Speaker 1: July thirteenth, from the Black Effects Podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown.
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  Speaker 1: This is front page and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. We talked about Nolan Wells last week,
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  Speaker 1: and today we have new information. Now. Nolan Wells is
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  Speaker 1: the eighteen year old football player from Mississippi who disappeared
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  Speaker 1: during a fourth of July trip to Horn Island with
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  Speaker 1: a group of friends. His friends made it back, but
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  Speaker 1: Nolan did not. His body was found two days later
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  Speaker 1: by a park ranger. Now here are the new developments.
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's parents, they are speaking publicly for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking with Good Morning America, Christine and Elmore Wansley say
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  Speaker 1: they're demanding a transparent and thorough investigation into their son's death.
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  Speaker 1: His friends told investigators that Nolan chose to stay behind
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  Speaker 1: on the island, but his parents say they don't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I can't fathom why he would, like, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know why he would.
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  Speaker 1: His mother says she can't imagine why Nolan would ever
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  Speaker 1: stay behind, and his father says they've always taught him,
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  Speaker 1: if you go with the group, you come back with
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  Speaker 1: the group.
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  Speaker 2: We always tak him to if you go with a group,
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  Speaker 2: you stay with a group. Even when he was in college,
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  Speaker 2: he was her dad, well, we're going to ride down
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  Speaker 2: to a party or something in a noted city. Now,
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  Speaker 2: howers our telling love, if you go with five, you
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  Speaker 2: come back a fire, and do not separate from the group.
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  Speaker 1: The Jackson County Sheriff's Office says investigators have not found
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  Speaker 1: any evidence of foul play, at least not yet, but
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff John Ledbetter says the investigation is far from over
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  Speaker 1: and detectives are still reviewing a substantial number of tips,
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  Speaker 1: along with photos and videos from people who are on
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  Speaker 1: the island. The Wells family has also hired civil rights
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  Speaker 1: attorney Ben Crump and ordered an independent autopsy.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to be very transparent because the family has
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  Speaker 4: some concerns about the state of Mississippi doing an investigation
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  Speaker 4: the death of a young black man where young white
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  Speaker 4: students may be looked at as having some culpability. So
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  Speaker 4: the family is concerned about that. So we're going to
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  Speaker 4: have an independent autopsy. We have investigators talking to witnesses
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  Speaker 4: that have no alignment or no allegiance.
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  Speaker 1: Crump says the family believes text messag were deleted from
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's phone after he disappeared. He also says the family
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  Speaker 1: has learned about an alleged altercation before Nolan went missing
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  Speaker 1: and wants investigators to determine exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't like they said, we got his phone. They
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  Speaker 4: tracked it, and that highlights all these contradictions, Michael. The
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  Speaker 4: fact that they said Nolan was talking to a young
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  Speaker 4: woman and she said that he said I'm going back
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  Speaker 4: to get on the boat with the boys. The boy
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  Speaker 4: said that he said he was going to stay with her,
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  Speaker 4: and so that's an obvious contradiction. And then this video
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  Speaker 4: of this you can hear an argument going where Nolan
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  Speaker 4: is saying, give me my freaking phone, what are you
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  Speaker 4: freaking doing? And so then his phone ends up missing.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know any teenagers Michael Strahan, who says, if
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  Speaker 4: you believe that story, I'm gonna stay behind and I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to leave my phone. I mean, no young person
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  Speaker 4: leaves their phone.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators are still asking anyone who was on Horn Island
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  Speaker 1: on July fourth to come forward with original unedited photos
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  Speaker 1: or video, especially anything showing an argument or any interaction
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  Speaker 1: involving Nolan Carmelo. Anthony's new legal team says this case
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  Speaker 1: isn't just about what happened on the track field. They
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  Speaker 1: say the entire trial process was unfair. Last week, Anthony's
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  Speaker 1: attorneys filed a sixty three page motion asking for a
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  Speaker 1: new trial, along with a separate motion asking that Judge
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  Speaker 1: John Roach be removed from any future proceedings. Anthony was
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  Speaker 1: convicted last month of murdering Austin Metcalf and sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: thirty five years in prison. The new filings accused the
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  Speaker 1: judge of making key decisions on his own. According to
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  Speaker 1: the motion, no one asked for a gag order. The
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  Speaker 1: defense says Judge Roach issued one on his own before trial.
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  Speaker 1: They also say major hearing were held behind closed doors
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  Speaker 1: instead of open court, and important filings were hand delivered
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  Speaker 1: instead of being posted on public docket. The defense argues
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  Speaker 1: that made it nearly impossible for the public to know
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  Speaker 1: what was happening in the case before trial.
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  Speaker 5: No matter what, people are going to distort whatever happens
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  Speaker 5: or whatever they hear into their own agenda. So what's
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  Speaker 5: the point. And again, that noise affects people, affects the
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  Speaker 5: fairness of the trial, the safety of the witnesses, the
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  Speaker 5: safety of the jury, and those are my primary concerns,
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  Speaker 5: not what social media says. It's not my duty. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think it's my job to feed social media or
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  Speaker 5: the media. I certainly understand the role up media plays
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  Speaker 5: and the case like this, but I'm not here to
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  Speaker 5: feed it. And I took that very very serious.
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  Speaker 1: The motion also alleges there was an off the record
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  Speaker 1: agreement between the prosecution and the defense to keep certain
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  Speaker 1: evidence out of trial. According to Anthony's attorneys, they built
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  Speaker 1: their entire defense strategy around that agreement, including Carmelo Anthony
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  Speaker 1: taking the stand in his own defense, but on the
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  Speaker 1: final of testimony, the defense as prosecutors changed their position,
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  Speaker 1: arguing the agreement no longer applied if Anthony testified. The
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  Speaker 1: judge ruled he had no legal way to enforce the
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  Speaker 1: off the record agreement. That left Anthony with just ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes to decide whether to testify. He ultimately chose not
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  Speaker 1: to take the stand, his attorneys saying that decision changed everything.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of hearing directly from Anthony, the defense said it
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  Speaker 1: had to abandon its trial strategy because testifying would have
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  Speaker 1: opened the door to evidence they believed both sides had
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  Speaker 1: agreed to keep out. And lastly, a fifty cent tests
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  Speaker 1: It also earned a nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing. Fifty
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  Speaker 1: say when I announced it. Now the Emmy's got something
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  Speaker 3: one else being vocal, so you would look at it
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  Speaker 1: That's Your Front Page, I Mimi Brown. This podcast was
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