Allyuh should really check this out... the
stream is 59 minutes long, but very much worth the listen. Essentially this Trini fella, Collin Warner is wrongly accused of murder in Brooklyn and convicted. He gets sentenced to 15 years in jail, the judge seemed reluctant to sentence him but had no choice... 15 yrs was the minimum he could give him. His best friend, Carl King, also a Trini, never gives up on him and teaches himself how to become a criminal investigator, and with the help of an unlikely crew, including the actual murderer and the victim's brother, they eventually get the conviction overturned nearly 20 years later.
PROLOGUE.
Carl King, a self-taught investigator, talks about the murder case he's working on now—one the police think they've already solved. Carl got started in this business after freeing his close friend from prison. He now runs an organization, called Success to Freedom, devoted to helping wrongfully convicted inmates. (2 minutes)
ACT ONE.Reporter Anya Bourg tells the story of Carl King's first case, where he's able to accomplish what experienced detectives and lawyers were not. He proves that his friend was innocent. In this first half of the show, we hear the story of the crime. In 1980, Mario Hamilton was gunned down in the street in Brooklyn. A teenager claimed to have seen it happen. With police prompting, he fingered a guy named Collin Warner as the shooter. No matter that everyone in the neighborhood said someone else murdered Hamilton and that Warner had nothing to do with it. And no matter that the teenager hadn't witnessed the murder at all. A jury convicted Warner, and he was sentenced to 15 years to life for killing a man he'd never even heard of. Carl, his childhood friend couldn't let it rest, and started to fight the conviction. He tells everyone he can about the case. He tracks down witnesses. He teaches himself to read court documents. Eventually, he gets a real estate lawyer hooked on the case. (29 minutes)
ACT TWO.The story of Collin Warner continues. His friend Carl manages to convince the real shooter and the victim's brother (who watched him die on the sidewalk) to testify on Collin's behalf. After 21 years in prison, Collin goes free. (24 minutes)
Original music for the show by Single Minded Pros
