Beyond All Repair Ch. 6: Hope

Beyond All Repair

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Criminal Justice, True Crime

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The jury has reached a verdict: Sophia is found guilty of first-degree murder.

At sentencing, Sophia hears victim impact statements, including one delivered by the woman raising her son.

She is sentenced to 43 years in prison, and just as she’s settling into that fate, she gets a call from her lawyer saying that she’s won the right to a new trial.

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0:07.0	connect with other curious people to think deeply about issues that matter.
0:12.0	Here from Katanji Brown Jackson, Pete Budajajed, Anna Devir Smith, and more.
0:17.5	Tickets are available at the Atlantic Festival.com.
0:21.0	W-B-U-R- Podcasts, Boston.
0:27.0	Heads up, this show has descriptions of violence and strong language.
0:35.0	Last time, on Beyond All Repair.
0:38.6	Basically, he says, I believe Sophia is stealing from me.
0:42.8	I went on a rampage.
0:44.5	I felt wronged.
0:45.7	It felt cheated and it felt slimy.
0:49.1	I don't think you should marry her.
0:52.2	And of course I went ahead and
0:53.5	intern did the exact same thing I was wrong I cheated him and I became slimy you know she
0:59.5	was looking for money that was her big motivation right. The tornado just kept getting bigger and bigger.
1:04.3	Yeah, this is the walls closing in, man.
1:06.5	My primary concern was making sure this money was paid back and that this baby that I'm pregnant with would be okay.
1:13.7	Good afternoon.
1:25.0	I have been handled the verdict forms by the jury and the matter of state versus Sophia Johnson cause number
1:35.6	0-2-1-7-70-3. It's April 9, 2003. Over the last two weeks, 12 people have heard from detectives and forensic analysts.
1:48.0	They've heard from heartbroken family members of Marlene Johnson.
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