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Dad pleads for justice in Belinda Lucas Temple’s murder · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Lee. The jury found the defendant, David Mark Temple, guilty
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Speaker 1: of murder. The high school football coach from Katie was
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Speaker 1: convicted in two thousand seven for killing his pregnant wife, Belinda,
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Speaker 1: in the midst of an affair with the woman he
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Speaker 1: later married. The conviction was thrown out though, after the
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Speaker 1: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found that the prosecutor in
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Speaker 1: his trial withheld important evidence. This is current stories, But
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, David Temple is out of jail for now,
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Speaker 1: a freeman. I hope my name is cleared once and
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Speaker 1: for all, and justice will be served the family of
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Speaker 1: Belinda Temple, the victim in this case. Once David Temple retried,
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Speaker 1: a team of Harris County prosecutors who's now reviewing thousands
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Speaker 1: of pages of evidence and testimony to determine if Temple
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Speaker 1: will stand trial a second time or if the charges
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Speaker 1: against him will be drawn. And eight months pregnant mother
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Speaker 1: is found dead, seemingly executed in her own home. Now,
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Speaker 1: how does that happen? When you don't have a sex attack,
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Speaker 1: you don't have a real robbery, you don't have a
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Speaker 1: real burglary. Who who who would come in and murder
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Speaker 1: a pregnant mom in her own home for no reason,
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Speaker 1: for no obvious reason. That is. Now, let's think this
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Speaker 1: thing through. Did you know in a and esteemed journal
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Speaker 1: of medicine it was determined? And I recall interviewing the
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Speaker 1: doctor who created the study and questioning her, and I
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Speaker 1: believe her that the number one cause of death amongst
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Speaker 1: pregnant women in our country is homicide. When I first
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Speaker 1: heard that statistic, I could not believe it. The number
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Speaker 1: one cause of death amongst pregnant women is on a side?
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Speaker 1: What about proclampsia? What about a heart attack, a stroke,
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Speaker 1: high blood pressure? Homicide? A pregnant mom murdered dead in
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Speaker 1: her suburban Texas home. Why if you haven't figured it
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Speaker 1: out yet, I'm talking about Belinda Temple. Belinda Lucas Temple.
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Speaker 1: Prosecutors say she was executed in the bedroom closet of
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Speaker 1: their Katie home January eleven. She was eight months pregnant
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Speaker 1: with a baby girl who she planned to name Baby
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Speaker 1: erin this scene was staged. A random killer doesn't bother
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Speaker 1: to stage the scene because they're not connecting to the
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Speaker 1: dead body. They don't care. The person that stages a
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Speaker 1: scene is a person connected to the victim. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I see Grace, this is crime stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us. A jury said that her husband, the
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Speaker 1: high school coach, murdered her. Right now, there is a
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Speaker 1: heated battle going on in Texas this case. After a
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Speaker 1: jury convicted her husband, David Temple, of her murder, the
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Speaker 1: case was reversed because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct. What misconduct?
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Speaker 1: For instance not handing over her some statements and some
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Speaker 1: other information to the defense in a timely manner. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's bad. Does it mean David Temple did not murder
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Speaker 1: his wife? No, it does not end his unborn baby Erin.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it's arguable he should go straight to the
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Speaker 1: electric chair, because that's two people under Texas law, the
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Speaker 1: mom and the unborn baby eight month baby Erin still
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Speaker 1: in her mommy's tummy. So let's think this thing through.
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Speaker 1: Our prosecutors dragging their feet about whether they're going to
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Speaker 1: retry David Temple, listen to what Belinda's dad has to say,
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Speaker 1: and then decide. My daughter, Belinda Lucas Temple, who was
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Speaker 1: eight months pregnant, was murdered by her Hope and David
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Speaker 1: Temple in the Houston area of Texas and nine years
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Speaker 1: went by before we finally got him put in prison.
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Speaker 1: Now then he's served some time and he's been led
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Speaker 1: out of the bond to possibly get a new trial
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Speaker 1: or possibly just turn loose. This is wrong what there
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Speaker 1: was there's somebody apparently has been bought off or something
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Speaker 1: is I hope that Nancy and y'all can look into
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Speaker 1: it and maybe do something to help. I need lots
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Speaker 1: of help, you know, if possible. She's wife, she's deceased now,
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Speaker 1: so the stress from that all of this was caused
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Speaker 1: her I have a heart attack and by we were
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Speaker 1: a guest on Nancy's very first show, we talked about
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Speaker 1: this murder. His family was also on the part of
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Speaker 1: the show. I hope that y'all can help me, help me.
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Speaker 1: It's so terrible to my daughter who was she was
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Speaker 1: eight months pregnant. She was executed, shot the back of
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Speaker 1: the head with a shotgun blown. Her brains are over
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Speaker 1: the closet. Now then that he's he's been let out
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Speaker 1: of prison, who for possible new trial and what is
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Speaker 1: being done is injustice. They they let him out him
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Speaker 1: like say, they let him out on bond, you're waiting
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Speaker 1: for a new trial. They're trying to decide where they'll
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Speaker 1: have a new trial or just turn him loose. This
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Speaker 1: is not right. Uh. I would like to have his story,
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Speaker 1: if you could update it and put it on you know,
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Speaker 1: it would be appreciated because been very difficult time they
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Speaker 1: were the last eighteen years. You know, Alan, I can
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Speaker 1: hardly stand and here it. I just remember his family,
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Speaker 1: her family so well, that was my very first headline
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Speaker 1: Niche show, and I thought it was so awful and
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Speaker 1: so wrong. And that was before I had children. And
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Speaker 1: now to think that John, David or Lucy could have
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Speaker 1: been shot and kill while they were in my tummy,
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Speaker 1: I just I can only stand and even think about
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Speaker 1: it and what this family has gone through. Alan, eighteen
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Speaker 1: years of their lives have been stolen by David Temple.
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Speaker 1: And I don't understand why he would have killed his
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Speaker 1: wife anyway and never understood that. Yes, I know he
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Speaker 1: had a mistress, but for Pete's sake, what about a
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Speaker 1: divorce to cause all this pain? And now to think
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Speaker 1: you can walk Scott free. Well, what's the hold up
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Speaker 1: on a new trial? Alan? What's happening? Nancy? There's a
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Speaker 1: new prosecutor in Harris County, Texas. She just took over
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Speaker 1: this year and she got the case. She said in
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Speaker 1: a hearing just a few days ago that she needs
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Speaker 1: about a month or two months to make a decision.
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Speaker 1: She's reviewing the whole case file. The controversy and this
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Speaker 1: is why Mr Tom Lucas said, Hey, somebody might be
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Speaker 1: paid off. Is there's a big controversy the family is
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Speaker 1: worried about because they say the prosecutor is too close
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Speaker 1: to the original defense attorneys and the appeals attorneys. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they held a fundraiser earlier this month where they raised
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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars for this prosecutor. The defense lawyers hosted it,
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Speaker 1: and so that has the family in an uproar. Well,
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Speaker 1: I understand, not that I agree with it, but I
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Speaker 1: understand that candidates take contributions from all sorts of people.
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Speaker 1: But to have the fundraiser hosted by the defense attorneys
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Speaker 1: on this case, I mean, there may be no conflict
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Speaker 1: of interest at all. Ogg maybe doing her job just
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Speaker 1: as she should. But under the rules of ethics, you
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Speaker 1: are to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, even the
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Speaker 1: appears not hey, look I'm doing the right thing. No,
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Speaker 1: that's no. You are to avoid just the appearance of
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Speaker 1: impropriety because it makes people lose faith in the justice system. OG.
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Speaker 1: Maybe perfectly on the up and up, but the appearance
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Speaker 1: of impropriety it's there. And I'm not saying she's doing
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Speaker 1: anything wrong. What I'm saying is it just looks bad.
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Speaker 1: And even if she goes forward the prosecution, they will
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Speaker 1: always think it just looks bad. And if she were
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Speaker 1: to lose this case and she tried it, people would
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Speaker 1: possibility for everybody. Now back to the murder of pregnant
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Speaker 1: mom Belenda Lucas. So what I'm saying, Alan is that
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Speaker 1: even if she is the squeakiest, cleaniest prosecutor that ever
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Speaker 1: want the face of the earth, it still has the
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Speaker 1: appearance of impropriety. And even if she tries the case,
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Speaker 1: what if she were to lose, because people would forever
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Speaker 1: think that she threw the case somehow. Whether she did
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Speaker 1: or she didn't doesn't matter. It's the appearance of impropriety
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Speaker 1: and that is not the way prosecutors should present themselves
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Speaker 1: or their cases. So what's the problem of handing it
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Speaker 1: off to an independent prosecutor that way? As I said,
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Speaker 1: she looks good, she's doing the right thing. She can
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Speaker 1: still wear the white hat for Pete's sake, and the
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Speaker 1: case gets tried without any with of a foul aroma. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so that's what needs to be done. And I really
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Speaker 1: came to that conclusion after studying all of this and
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Speaker 1: seeing the dec vision of my longtime friend, victims rights
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Speaker 1: advocate Andy Kahn there in Houston. He was analyzed the
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Speaker 1: case as well. And again, I remember Belinda's family so well.
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt in my mind this case she
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Speaker 1: goes forward. Now, whatever happened the first time around when
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Speaker 1: certain statements and other information was not handed over by
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Speaker 1: the then prosecutor Kelly Kelly Siegler. Yeah right, she was
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Speaker 1: a great prosecutor. Well, screwed up on this. That's over with.
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Speaker 1: Let's focus on what's happening now and what we can
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Speaker 1: do to save this conviction and keep this guy behind bars. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's already gotten out on bond, he's walking free. Well,
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Speaker 1: what if he's innocent? Hold on just a moment, let
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Speaker 1: me understand something, Alan, You do know the case was
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Speaker 1: not reversed because the appellate court thought he was innocent.
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Speaker 1: Right thirty six instance as a prosecutorial misconduct, things that
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Speaker 1: that Kelly Siegler did not turn over to the defense
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Speaker 1: lawyer resulted in not a fair trial. This man has
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Speaker 1: not been convicted. The defense has a theory he was convicted.
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Speaker 1: Not anymore. He was convicted at trial and appellate court
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Speaker 1: reversed it. I don't even know what you're saying. He
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Speaker 1: wants to be proven innocent. He says now that it
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Speaker 1: was a burglar. She walked in on a burglar, and
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Speaker 1: the thirty six instances of prosecutorial misconduct deprived his defense
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Speaker 1: lawyers of the opportunity to defend him because the timeline
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Speaker 1: would have been questioned by the phone records, the police reports,
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Speaker 1: and the other evidence that they did not get to
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Speaker 1: see before the trial. So this man legally is innocent
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Speaker 1: or at least not guilty. At this point, he wants
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Speaker 1: to be declared innocent completely. He says, it was a burglar. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you already you know, well, you already said that. You're
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Speaker 1: starting to repeat, and you know, frankly, I got a
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Speaker 1: lot of justice to seek. Don't really have time for
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Speaker 1: repetition or redundancy. Uh So let me just get to
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Speaker 1: the facts. Yes, there was prosecutorial misconduct, and I agree
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Speaker 1: with that. Now, can you explain to me specifically, Alan,
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Speaker 1: you're saying, because these statements were not handed over, he
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Speaker 1: whatever in those statements would prove him innocent. He was
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Speaker 1: in the Excuse me, I'm speaking. Give me one exact
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Speaker 1: instance of how they proved him innocent. Phone records showed
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Speaker 1: that she was in a particular place at a particular time,
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Speaker 1: and that he was in the park with his son.
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Speaker 1: Then I think it was a home depot they went
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Speaker 1: to to get some shelving he's seen on the surveillance video.
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Speaker 1: The timeline that Kelly Siegler presented could be disrupted by
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Speaker 1: a good defense lawyer with the evidence that she withheld. Okay, again,
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Speaker 1: you're saying the timeline she presented could be disrupted by
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Speaker 1: evidence she withheld. What evidence does it prove him guilt?
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Speaker 1: How does it prove him into Tell me phone records,
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Speaker 1: the pinning of the phone towers, that sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: Because the defense is contending that there was a teenager
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Speaker 1: who lived down the street, and this is another thing
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Speaker 1: they withheld police report showing that this kid had burgled
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Speaker 1: that home before. Jump up on my podcast and tell
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Speaker 1: me there is evidence proving a man innocent. And then
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Speaker 1: when I ask you, when I ask you, what proving
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Speaker 1: I said that couldn't approve would disrupt the timeline. You
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Speaker 1: can't tell me, now, okay, what the phone records show?
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Speaker 1: What phone records I just told you, Nancy phone records?
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Speaker 1: The defense would contend, I'm not a defense lawyer. Look,
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Speaker 1: but they contend that those phone records help them. Just
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Speaker 1: this is part of the reason that it's hard for
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Speaker 1: kim og to make a decision on retrial. So bottom line,
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing you, but no offense, Alan, But you can't
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Speaker 1: say this phone record shows that he is, for example,
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Speaker 1: thirty miles away from home at the time she was killed.
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Speaker 1: And we know the time she was killed by the
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Speaker 1: medical examiner. And this refutes that you can't give me
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Speaker 1: a specific instance of how he three thirty in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: The phone record said she was at a certain No, okay,
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Speaker 1: I I don't have the phone records in front of me.
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Speaker 1: But there are thirty six instances where there were police
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Speaker 1: reports that were hidden from the defense. And there and
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Speaker 1: the whole say hidden when you say kid and hold on,
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Speaker 1: hold on when you say hidden, didn't the appellate courts
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Speaker 1: say not turned over? Because I don't know I can
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Speaker 1: tell you. I don't know the truth of this. I
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Speaker 1: recall I was prosecuting a double murder and the defense
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Speaker 1: called me in in front of the judges, said she's
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Speaker 1: hiding some statements. I'm like, no, I am not hiding
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Speaker 1: any thing. You've got my whole entire file. You've got everything.
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Speaker 1: And they went, no, there's another statement. I'm like, well,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, I don't have it. Well, has it
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Speaker 1: turned out ap D homicide. Hey given me their file
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Speaker 1: and they had a statement sitting at their office. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know about. Now did the statement prove anything? No,
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Speaker 1: but still there was a statement that had not been
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Speaker 1: handed over, not because of me, but long story short,
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Speaker 1: it got handed over months and months and months before trial,
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Speaker 1: probably over a year before trial. Long story short, I'm
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Speaker 1: asking you in this case, you're saying, she Kelly Siegler
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Speaker 1: hid a statement from them. Well, police investigated other suspects
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Speaker 1: and had reports on other side, including a woman in
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Speaker 1: that town who told police she thought her husband was
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Speaker 1: involved and he had a shotgun just like that, But
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Speaker 1: they never told the defense about this. I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: ask you a specific question. Alan before were you so
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Speaker 1: rudely interrupted? My question was about your assertion that Kelly
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Speaker 1: Sigler hid actively hid the evidence. Did she hide it
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Speaker 1: or did she not turn it over? She said she
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Speaker 1: didn't turn it over because she this one particular thing,
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Speaker 1: because she didn't think it was credible. But that is
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Speaker 1: not the law. The other technique that she used, this
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Speaker 1: is a Texas prosecutor's technique that is now outlawed by
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Speaker 1: the legislature in Texas, where the prosecutor would only call
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Speaker 1: one or two of the investigators, thinking because if you
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Speaker 1: don't call all of the investigators, you don't have to
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Speaker 1: turn over the other investigators work their police reports. That
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Speaker 1: might not help you, So you don't call those investigators
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Speaker 1: to the stand testify. That's now been outlawed. But she
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Speaker 1: used that technique, and that was another one of the problems.
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Speaker 1: So the defense didn't have a fair trial. Okay, try
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Speaker 1: to answer my questions. Just try, Okay. I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: back to my first question that you avoided, and that
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Speaker 1: is did she hide evidence or not handed over? Did
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Speaker 1: not turn it over? Okay, So let's correct your earlier
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Speaker 1: statement that she actively hid. That's hiding it. That's hiding it. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not. I just get about Okay, you know what
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Speaker 1: butt kicking off the podcast. I'm kicking off the podcast.
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Speaker 1: So I just gave you an example of how a
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Speaker 1: statement cannot be handed over, and nobody intended for that
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Speaker 1: to happen. But you know what, actually that's neither here
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Speaker 1: nor there. The fact that the statements were not handed
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Speaker 1: over is illegal under the law. So they had to
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Speaker 1: be handed over. And even if she thought that this
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Speaker 1: teenager was irrelevant, it still has to be handed over
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Speaker 1: because it could be exculpatory. Under Brady view, Maryland, you
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Speaker 1: have to hand it all over. So, okay, we're to
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Speaker 1: the point where there's gonna be a new trial. Okay,
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Speaker 1: granted she's screwed up for whatever reason, and there has
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Speaker 1: to be a new trial. So my question is, now
20:08
Speaker 1: here we are, there's no use in arguing over what
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Speaker 1: Kelly Siegler did or did not intend because here we are,
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Speaker 1: now why isn't there a new trial? That's my question.
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Speaker 1: This prosecutor has to make the decision. She says, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna have it within maybe this month, maybe a few
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Speaker 1: weeks from now. Was David Temple having an affair at
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Speaker 1: the time of the murder? Yes, David Temple had a mistress,
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Speaker 1: a woman that he married two years later, just a
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Speaker 1: few weeks after his wife was murdered. He sent her
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Speaker 1: flowers and I think even candy on Valentine's Day and
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Speaker 1: then he married her. So, yes, he's having an affair,
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Speaker 1: but that is not a capital crime. And now she
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Speaker 1: is the current Mrs Temple right now, that's certainly putting
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Speaker 1: perfume on the pig just because his wife gets murdered
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Speaker 1: and he later years later marries his mistress. You think
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Speaker 1: that makes it okay? No, I think it makes it
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Speaker 1: actually look worse for him. I don't care what. I
21:05
Speaker 1: don't really care how it looks. I'm just saying that
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Speaker 1: does not justify what happened. Now, let's talk about what
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Speaker 1: we do know. We know ballistics testing was impossible, but
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Speaker 1: investigators know she was killed by Its actually a twenty
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Speaker 1: it's either a twelve or twenty gauge. It's a twelve
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Speaker 1: and a specific type of shell. Now, the shell, which
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Speaker 1: had been fired at least once and then reloaded, was
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Speaker 1: filled with double O back shot, and that's buckshot. That's
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Speaker 1: large balls that are packed together with winding and gunpowder.
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Speaker 1: For weeks after the shooting of Bolinda, police investigated a
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Speaker 1: team as Alan correctly pointed out, who lived in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: They also investigated his friends and they recovered several twelve
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Speaker 1: gauges and they reloaded the ship else Now, it was
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Speaker 1: very important that Siegler should have turned over that information. Now,
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Speaker 1: even though none of that information suggested the teams were responsible, Okay,
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Speaker 1: they should have the defensiative at least known about it.
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Speaker 1: Police also looked into reports of other suspects, including that
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Speaker 1: Katie woman who told police her husband was involved. Police
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Speaker 1: interviewed the husband, they took his twelve gauge m O
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Speaker 1: reloading equipment. It turned out to be not credible. It
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Speaker 1: was turned over, however, eleven days before trial. The defense
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Speaker 1: got that information Alan, that you're talking about, Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: not soon enough. Come on, but you let us do
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Speaker 1: it a violation that you believe that well, the listeners
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Speaker 1: to believe that that information was never handed over, But
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Speaker 1: it was. It was a Brady versus Maryland violation that
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Speaker 1: was on the appeals thirty six of them, Nancy three dozen.
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Speaker 1: You led us to think that husband was not handed over.
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Speaker 1: He was and he had been questioned. But but long
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Speaker 1: story short, let's talk about the evidence that we do know.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the evidence that we do know about.
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Speaker 1: What do we know about Belinda Lucas's crime scene? We
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Speaker 1: know that it was very grizzly, pieces of her head
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Speaker 1: all in the closet, and her clothes in her closet,
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Speaker 1: just horrific. And whoever it was reloaded? No, No, the
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Speaker 1: reloading is the shell was a reused shell, is what
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Speaker 1: that was. Let's see what you mean. Are you sure
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Speaker 1: there was a reused shell, which is a thing that
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Speaker 1: hunters do. You know? You you can get a little
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Speaker 1: machine and reload your own shells at home. I've done it.
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Speaker 1: What else do we know about the crime scene? It
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Speaker 1: was in her closet of her bedroom. The defense says
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Speaker 1: that it looks just like a burglary, that she interrupted
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Speaker 1: a burglary when she came home. Why do you say
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Speaker 1: it looks like she interrupted a burglary? I don't say so.
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Speaker 1: The offense says that, and they think that there's new
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Speaker 1: evidence that they're gonna get if they do go to
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Speaker 1: a trial, will help improve that. I agree with the
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Speaker 1: family on this that there needs to be a new trial.
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Speaker 1: You and I both agree on that, and that it
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Speaker 1: needs to be a special prosecutor, someone who's not directly involved. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's let's just talk about what we know them. Belenda
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Speaker 1: Lucas and coach husband David Temple were actually classmates at
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Speaker 1: Stephen Austin University in Texas. David goes on to become
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Speaker 1: a high school coach, she's a teacher. They get married.
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Speaker 1: They have one little boy. When their child was three
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Speaker 1: years old and Belinda was thirty and eight months pregnant,
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Speaker 1: she was killed by one gun shot blast to the head,
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Speaker 1: A twelve gate shotgun was never found. For many many years,
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Speaker 1: case remained unsolved. Finally, investigation reveals a history of cruelty
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Speaker 1: by Belinda's husband. At that time, he was a respected
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Speaker 1: member of that Texas community. Now we also know that
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Speaker 1: Kelly Siegler, the prosecutor in the case, later became part
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Speaker 1: of a tn T network show called Coal Justice. Despite
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Speaker 1: having one of the best lawyers in Texas, Temple was convicted.
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Speaker 1: What do we know about the actual crime scene. We
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Speaker 1: know that the crime scene looks staged. We know that
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Speaker 1: there was no sex attack and no robbery. So what
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Speaker 1: would a possible motive have been Alan a burglar who
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Speaker 1: was caught in the act and shot her. Look, I
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Speaker 1: don't know that David Temple's innocent. I'm not suggesting that
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Speaker 1: he is. I'm saying he just isn't convicted until he
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Speaker 1: gets a fair trial. What do we have to do
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Speaker 1: in order to help about a fair trial? What? What?
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Speaker 1: What can be done? Well? Nancy Harris County, Texas District
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Speaker 1: Attorney kim Og is making a decision very soon about
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Speaker 1: if the Temple murder case will be retried or if
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Speaker 1: the murder charge against David Temple will just be dropped.
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Speaker 1: And if there is a new trial, Og must decide
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Speaker 1: if it will be handled by her office or turned
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Speaker 1: over to an independent prosecutor. Crime Stories listeners can call
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Speaker 1: her office and weigh in at seven one three two
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Speaker 1: seven four hundred. That's seven one three two, seven four hundred,
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Speaker 1: and we'll also post this number on our crime online story.
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Speaker 1: You know, she was fully closed, which supports my theory
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Speaker 1: that she was not sex assaulted. She was still wearing
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Speaker 1: her shoes even but significantly, she was wearing a watch,
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Speaker 1: a bracelet and necklace, and rings on both hands. Her
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Speaker 1: cordless phone was found near her hand. Her glasses were
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Speaker 1: found broken on the ground near her and from the
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Speaker 1: very beginning, police did not believe David Temple's story made
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Speaker 1: any sense, judging by all the gold, jewelry and electronic
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Speaker 1: items found at the scene. There was no theft, there
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Speaker 1: was no burglary, but for so long there was nothing
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Speaker 1: to go on in the case went cold. Now, people
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Speaker 1: who knew both David Temple and Belinda Lucas say they
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Speaker 1: were a great couple. They were great parents, but it
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Speaker 1: seemed that things changed at the second pregnancy. They gave
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Speaker 1: the appearance of being very, very happy, but that would
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Speaker 1: only help the defense, right because you wouldn't believe a
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Speaker 1: husband would kill his wife if they were so happy. Now,
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Speaker 1: we discovered before trial that he claims Belinda is the
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Speaker 1: love of his life, but he had just lied to
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Speaker 1: his wife about New Year's Eve, saying he had a
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Speaker 1: hunting trip. Instead, he was out having sex with a
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Speaker 1: fellow teacher named Heather. So that's where it all starts.
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Speaker 1: He says, Oh, he knew the affair was wrong, but
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Speaker 1: he still loved Belenda and he would never have hurt her.
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Speaker 1: But this jury believed that David Temple killed his wife,
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Speaker 1: and in stage just seemed to look like robbery. There
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Speaker 1: was some broken glass at the scene. They also think
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Speaker 1: that after the murder, he then intentionally caught running a
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Speaker 1: bunch of ridiculous errands on videotape, that he didn't really
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Speaker 1: need to even run to try to establish an alibi,
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Speaker 1: and that it was all to try to forge a
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Speaker 1: new life with his true love Heather. So you have
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Speaker 1: the family morning trying to cope with the loss the
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Speaker 1: murder of Belenda, and he goes and gets married to
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Speaker 1: another person. To me, the whole thing is staged, and
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Speaker 1: statistically alan, a random killer does not stage the murder scene.
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Speaker 1: You only do that when you're connected to the victim.
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Speaker 1: Right now, we are calling on Prosecutor Age in Texas,
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Speaker 1: on behalf of the family and on behalf of crime
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Speaker 1: victims across the country to please appoint an independent prosecutor
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Speaker 1: do the right thing. If the case goes back to
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Speaker 1: trial and it's lost, so be it, but at least
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Speaker 1: the family will know without a doubt that justice was obtained.
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Speaker 1: Please hear our voices and appoint an independent prosecutor in
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Speaker 1: the next prosecution of David Temple. Again, I want to
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Speaker 1: Every one, please join me in asking the prosecutor in
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Speaker 1: David Temple's case to appoint an independent council. We want justice.
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Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,