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Judge Removed From Karmelo Anthony Case, Former Compton Police Officer Testifies in Tupac Murder Trial, and State Farm Issuing $5 Billion in Dividends · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The judge in the Carmelo Anthony case has been removed
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  Speaker 1: and today a new judge decides whether he gets a
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  Speaker 1: new trial. There's too much at stake one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest trials of the decade. A former Compton police officer
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  Speaker 1: takes the stand in the Tupac murder trial. My last
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  Speaker 1: year or two of being a police officer, I was
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  Speaker 1: it as I therefore Security and State Farm is issuing
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  Speaker 1: five billion dollars in dividend payments. It's Thursday, August twentieth
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  Speaker 1: from the Black Effect podcast network. I Memi Brown. This
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  Speaker 1: is front page and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. Carmelo Anthony scored a legal victory Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The judge who presided over his murder trial has now
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  Speaker 1: been removed from his post trial proceedings. That means Judge
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  Speaker 1: John Roach will not decide whether Carmelo Anthony gets a
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  Speaker 1: new trial. A senior Texas judge made that decision after
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony's lawyers argued Roach could no longer be considered neutral,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a big part of their argument centered on
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  Speaker 1: what Roach did after the trial. He gave a television
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  Speaker 1: interview where he agreed with the jury's verdict.
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  Speaker 2: Did the jury get it right? Yeah? They did, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, because they were picked based upon the law.
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  Speaker 2: They listened to the facts that happened here in this
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  Speaker 2: very court room, and they got a verdict. I sleep
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  Speaker 2: well at night.
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo's attorneys argue that once Roach publicly weighed in on
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  Speaker 1: the verdict, he should not be able to decide whether
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  Speaker 1: that same verdict should stand. Roach had refused voluntarily to
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  Speaker 1: step aside, so another judge was brought in to remove
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  Speaker 1: him from the case. Carmelo was in court wearing a
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  Speaker 1: green prison jumpsuit. His parents were there. Austin Metcalf's parents
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  Speaker 1: were also in the courtroom. When the decision came down,
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo's supporter celebrated inside the courthouse and outside the building.
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  Speaker 1: But this is only the first fight. Today comes the
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  Speaker 1: bigger one. A new judge. We'll hear Carmelo's motion for
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  Speaker 1: new trial, and one of the biggest issues involves what
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  Speaker 1: his attorneys call a gentleman agreement.
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  Speaker 2: The dispute regarding the agreement did impact the outcome of
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  Speaker 2: the trial.
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  Speaker 1: And what that means is Carmelo's current attorney say prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: and his original defense team had an understanding about certain
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  Speaker 1: character evidence neither side would bring up in trial, but
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  Speaker 1: they say prosecutors later backed away from that understanding. The
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  Speaker 1: defense argues that changed Carmelo's entire strategy, including his decision
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  Speaker 1: not to testify in his own defense. Now they want
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  Speaker 1: a new judge to decide whether that was serious enough
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  Speaker 1: to give Carmelo a new trial. Carmelo was convicted of
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  Speaker 1: murder in June for fatally stabbing seventeen year old Austin
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  Speaker 1: Metcalf during a Frisco track meet in April of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. He was sentenced to thirty five years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: That conviction and sentence still stand, and today we'll find
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  Speaker 1: out whether Carmelo gets another shot at challenging how he
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  Speaker 1: got there. We'll stay on this and now to Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: where a former Compton police officer who went on to
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  Speaker 1: run security for Death Row Records has taken the stand
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  Speaker 1: in the Tupac Shakur murder case. Reggie White Junior was
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  Speaker 1: working with Death Row Records when Tupac was signed to
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  Speaker 1: the label, and his testimony matters because the man on trial,
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Keepd Davis, has publicly accused right of being connected
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  Speaker 1: to Tupac's murder. Prosecutors asked Right directly whether he had
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with the killing. He said no. Right
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  Speaker 1: also gave jurors a pretty unflattering description of keivd According
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  Speaker 1: to reporters in the courtroom, Wright described Davis as a
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  Speaker 1: crackhead before he became a drug dealer. Jurors also heard
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  Speaker 1: new details about Tupac's final moments, and retired Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: police officer testified that he pulled over Tupac and should
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  Speaker 1: Night shortly before the shooting because their car was missing
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  Speaker 1: a rare license plate. He let them go with the warning.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes later, Tupac was shot. That same officer rode with
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  Speaker 1: Tupac in the ambulance and testified that these were Tupac's
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  Speaker 1: final words.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I wrote to the hospital and the area was
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 1: He was still talking and I was trying to commiss
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  Speaker 1: him to tell me the name of whoever's assailants were.
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  Speaker 1: He responded, no, no, we'll take care.
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  Speaker 2: Of it, something like.
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  Speaker 1: The medical examiner also walked jurors through Tupac's injuries, including
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  Speaker 1: a bullet that traveled through his lung and another that
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  Speaker 1: entered his Abdomen. Tupac died six days later. He was
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years old. Kiefd is now sixty three years old,
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  Speaker 1: and if convicted, he could spend the rest of his
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  Speaker 1: life in prison. And lastly, State Farm Auto customers, you
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  Speaker 1: and because State Farm is owned by its policy holders,
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  Speaker 1: if you have State Farm insurance last year, keep your
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  Speaker 1: eye on your mailbox. You may have money coming back.
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