Danny Edwards

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Jailhouse informant who testified against Ben Spencer at trial

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Barbara Bradley HagertyUp First from NPR · The Luckiest of the Unlucky · 15:42 · Dec 2024
…That's right. Exactly. He was morally outraged. Yeah. So we found him. Daryl and I found him, and he was living at a halfway house. Danny had spent about half his life in prison by that point, and time had changed him, and also the circumstances had changed, right? The statute of limitations for perjury in Ben Spencer's case had passed. It was only five yea…
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Barbara Bradley HagertyUp First from NPR · The Luckiest of the Unlucky · 15:21 · Dec 2024
…He was a jailhouse informant because, remember, he was one who said that Ben Spencer had confessed to him while he and Spencer shared a jail cell. Edwards got out essentially two months after he testified at trial.…
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Barbara Bradley HagertyUp First from NPR · The Luckiest of the Unlucky · 4:43 · Dec 2024
…And he showed that Gladys Oliver and the two teenagers could not possibly physically identified anyone that night from so far away. And then second, the jailhouse informant. So at trial, Danny Edwards, the informant, had said that he never received a deal in exchange for his testimony. In fact, he told the jury that he testified out of moral outrage at Ben'…
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Barbara Bradley HagertyUp First from NPR · The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction · 10:12 · Dec 2024
…So police needed someone to connect Ben to the actual……
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