Violation Bonus: Jacob Wideman Says 'Vindictive' Arizona Officials Violated His Rights (Update)

Beyond All Repair

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Criminal Justice, True Crime

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In August, lawyers representing Jacob Wideman argued before a judge in Arizona that state officials treated him in a “constitutionally impermissible” way when they revoked his parole more than six years ago.

Lawyers for the parole board and the state corrections department said Wideman was trying to avoid following directions and therefore could not be trusted to be free. In this update, we fill you in on the hearing and how it could set the stage for further legal action in Wideman’s case.

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0:22.0	W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston. Hey, it's Beth Schwartz-A-Full. It's been a minute, I know, but there have been some updates in the case, and I want to share them with you.
0:41.6	All right.
0:44.0	We're here in LC 2023,000,000.
0:47.0	53 State v.
0:49.0	Wideman v.
0:51.0	The Department of Corrections on the Arizona Board of Appeals.
0:53.8	This August, in a courtroom in Phoenix,
0:56.4	a bunch of lawyers met to talk about Jacob Wideman.
1:00.2	Wideman, remember, served 30 years in prison after killing his summer camp roommate Eric Kane in 1986, when both boys were 16.
1:10.0	And then, after being released on a strict form of parole called Home Arrest in 2016,
1:16.0	Jake was yanked back into prison after less than nine months, and he's been there ever since.
1:22.0	Why? Because he failed to make an
1:25.4	appointment with a particular therapist on a particular day. Jake's lawyers
1:30.3	say the way it all went down ignored and trampled on Jake's constitutional rights.
1:35.4	A reply went through a stack of paper that's about five inches deep as well. Who wants to be heard? This event is called an
1:47.6	oral argument. It was a conversation about the law among lawyers in front of Maricopa Superior Court Judge Mark Brane.
1:57.0	Jake was listening in from prison.
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