Sarah Alvarez

And she explicitly said that she would sentence him to life.

And the problem with that, other than the fact that it's coercive, is that by statute, by Florida law, the mandatory minimum, if he were to be convicted, would be 25 years up to life.

And so under the law, a judge isn't supposed to predetermine a sentence before hearing any evidence.

And so that's what we took issue with.

Yeah.

You know, due process and such and such.

But that's what we took issue with.

And that was similarly denied.

Can I just jump in here and add that part of what was so frustrating about this is that.

Basically, all of the leads that we weren't able to talk about.

unless, you know, we're talking about there were some just like throwaway random leads that sure, they just didn't seem to have any merit at all.

But there was more evidence against those people than there is against Rashawn Jones.

And so for the detective to be allowed to get up there and tell the jury straight up that

You know, all roads led to Rashawn Jones.

Nobody else could have done it.

Nobody else had a 38.

It hasn't been proven that Rashawn had a 38.

Hasn't even really been proven that the bullet itself was a 38.

It was like, you know, almost completely flattened or partially.

Yes.