“Well produced podcast about a tragic and interesting story! That part I appreciated.
A driving theme of the podcast, however, is that because one juror (who obviously joined the unanimous “guilty” verdict) decided to get media attention later - and state that one member of the jury referred to the suspect as a “big black man” meant that the whole thing was racist. False. He was a big, black man. Those are physical descriptors of him and are used everyday by people who are not at all racist. But the producers of the podcast are fixated on their presumption that he was convicted because he was black. False. He was convicted because his DNA was in this poor woman. The podcast further claims that rape was only brought up because he was black. False. He was convicted of rape because his DNA was in her. The claims that the DNA was degraded are also easily explained; the DNA sat in the lab backlog for almost a year waiting to be tested.
The facts were very clear and evidence overwhelming (even though the podcast attempts to shift them through a racial lens): He raped and murdered this woman. Race had nothing to do with it.”
unbiased listener via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/20/20