This case shouldn't have been in the supreme court in the first place. And this question, what happens when you have awful representation twice is what brings barry jones to the supreme court? That's exactly right. So he so gets a proceeding, but the proceeding is meaningless because he's not allowed to introduce the evidence that the case turns on.
The Supreme Court is going to let Arizona kill Barry Jones, a man whose rape and murder convictions were vacated in 2018.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominguez, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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