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Episode 247: Cindy Ching Stevens

The First Degree

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The Unfathomable Truth About Sam's Conviction

"It's just me a couple of years afterwards that really come to grips that my friend killed her mom," Jack says. Sam was sentenced as a juvenile, not an adult, and she served time in a juvenile forensic psychiatric unit run by the Texas Youth Commission. "I think what I found so interesting about this story is the leniency in this particular situation compared to every other Texas case ... there must have been something mitigating going on here," Jack adds.

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