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Dr. Casey Jordan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
180 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

There's going to be a lot of blood.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

And, you know, here's the thing that bothers me.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

She had stabbing on both her right and her left side.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

Now, if she was facing him, it would all be on her left side.

20/20
The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

But I...

20/20
The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

I suspect that she would have spun around, probably trying to escape.

20/20
The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

Trying to get away.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

And he kept stabbing her and then she was penetrated on her right side.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

But then, again, fighting him off, getting his DNA under her fingernails, which was key, she spins around again and he lands the knife in her heart.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

When you put this evidence in front of a jury, this is something that the intent is right there in the photographs.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

Your thoughts on that?

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

So when he was convicted, he was given a life sentence, but then the Massachusetts law changed.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

Based on a lot of developments we've had in understanding brain science of young people, they think that

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

People under the age of 21 are not fully formed adults yet.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

So the law changed, and apparently he wasn't grandfathered with the old law.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

Under the Massachusetts law, it is considered cruel and unusual punishment for someone to be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

They're applying it to him.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

And anyone under the age of 21, and Dennis was just a few months shy of being 21, can no longer be sentenced to life.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

They find that to be unfair.

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The After Show: What the Killer Left Behind

In 2028, Dennis will have served 15 years in prison.