New 12-26-75 episodes: More from woman in 1965 Clifton case
Dec 8, 2020 0:50:25 GMT
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Post by johnnyhands1 on Dec 8, 2020 0:50:25 GMT
12-26-75 has come out with three new episodes, and here's a snippet from one of the episodes I transcribed (below) that goes into more detail than I've heard about 12-26-75's first conversation with the 18-yr-old woman who was involved in the 1965 Oscar Clifton attempted rape conviction.
It's brought up in the context of the California Attorney General's Office overseeing of the 2019 Tulare County conviction integrity review of the Donna Richmond murder conviction of Oscar Clifton.
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“Ep 40 Court if Public Opinion Part 3”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/12-26-75/id1228807274#episodeGuid=5fce602924cbb3433957967c
~11:50
When we first spoke to the woman on the beach, she mentioned an incident with Bob Byrd from 1976. She said that Byrd had called her, and told her that she was going to have to testify against Oscar at the upcoming trial. She told him that if she did, she would tell the truth about what happened, which she described as “nothing much.”
She said she’d been leaving the beach when she saw Oscar walking toward her, she was startled, and slipped on the hill. She then heard Stanley Miller calling her to come up to his truck, so she did. She denied that she’d been jumped on, held down, spoken to by Oscar, or injured in any way. She said TCSO talked to her, and that she rode her bike home. She described the call from Byrd as extremely upsetting, and she felt he was threatening her. She was not contacted again, and never received a subpoena to testify at the 1976 trial.
That seemed like an impossible story to check out, but Byrd had to make a record of the call because it was long distance. He called her on February 19, 1976. He wrote that she was “reluctant to testify, but gave the impression that she would.” And then at the bottom it says “case closed pending court action.”
The court held a hearing on the question of admitting the 1965 case, but the DA did not subpoena the young woman. Normally, her testimony would have been key in getting the judge to agree to admit the conviction at trial, but that never happened. We can’t prove what she told Byrd on the phone, but we believe her. And the fact that she was not subpoened supports her version of the events.
Everything she told us about being pressured in her home, her mother’s home, and at the DA’s office, is also supported by TCSO’s own records. There is no question in our minds that the entire case was manufactured by Bob Byrd.
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It's brought up in the context of the California Attorney General's Office overseeing of the 2019 Tulare County conviction integrity review of the Donna Richmond murder conviction of Oscar Clifton.
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“Ep 40 Court if Public Opinion Part 3”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/12-26-75/id1228807274#episodeGuid=5fce602924cbb3433957967c
~11:50
When we first spoke to the woman on the beach, she mentioned an incident with Bob Byrd from 1976. She said that Byrd had called her, and told her that she was going to have to testify against Oscar at the upcoming trial. She told him that if she did, she would tell the truth about what happened, which she described as “nothing much.”
She said she’d been leaving the beach when she saw Oscar walking toward her, she was startled, and slipped on the hill. She then heard Stanley Miller calling her to come up to his truck, so she did. She denied that she’d been jumped on, held down, spoken to by Oscar, or injured in any way. She said TCSO talked to her, and that she rode her bike home. She described the call from Byrd as extremely upsetting, and she felt he was threatening her. She was not contacted again, and never received a subpoena to testify at the 1976 trial.
That seemed like an impossible story to check out, but Byrd had to make a record of the call because it was long distance. He called her on February 19, 1976. He wrote that she was “reluctant to testify, but gave the impression that she would.” And then at the bottom it says “case closed pending court action.”
The court held a hearing on the question of admitting the 1965 case, but the DA did not subpoena the young woman. Normally, her testimony would have been key in getting the judge to agree to admit the conviction at trial, but that never happened. We can’t prove what she told Byrd on the phone, but we believe her. And the fact that she was not subpoened supports her version of the events.
Everything she told us about being pressured in her home, her mother’s home, and at the DA’s office, is also supported by TCSO’s own records. There is no question in our minds that the entire case was manufactured by Bob Byrd.
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