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Speaker 1: Dear Governor is a production of I Heart Media and

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Speaker 1: an open letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Dear Governor Newsom,

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Speaker 1: Dear Mr Governor Newsom. This is an open letter to

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Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom, Dear Governor Newson. The year the Compact

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Speaker 1: diss was introduced, The year New Coke was launched, The

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Speaker 1: year the UNI bomber killed his first victim, and too

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Speaker 1: much less fanfare or infamy. The year Jarvis J. Masters

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Speaker 1: was charged with conspiracy to commit murder of a corrections officer.

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Speaker 1: This story ran in the Los Angeles Times December three

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Speaker 1: of nineteen. Three inmates have been charged in the death

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Speaker 1: of a San Quentin prison guard who was killed with

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Speaker 1: a makeshift spear last summer. The Marine County District Attorney's

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Speaker 1: Office said. A spokesman said Andre Johnson twenty one, Jarvis J.

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Speaker 1: Masters twenty three, and Lawrence Woodard thirty nine have been

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Speaker 1: charged for conspiracy and murder with special circumstances in the

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Speaker 1: death of Sergeant Howell Dean Birchfield. We're all convicted for

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Speaker 1: conspiracy to commit murder. Johnson was committed for sugety of

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Speaker 1: conspiracy commit murder and the factual murder of original guard

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Speaker 1: where was convicted of conspiracy commit murder, but as the

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Speaker 1: leader of planning the murder, which wrote special circumstances to

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Speaker 1: him because he planned it, it was his orders, so

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Speaker 1: he was convicted of that. When I was convicted of

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Speaker 1: conspiracy and of sear bringing the weapon, and they never

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Speaker 1: kept that weapon because they never found Jervis Masters, Andre Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and Lawrence would were tried simultaneously before two separate juries,

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Speaker 1: one for Masters and Wordard and the other for Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Were you seated by your attorneys? You? I have two

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Speaker 1: of them. I had Jeffrey wrote Wine on the right

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Speaker 1: and Michael Satus on the other side, and we became

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Speaker 1: very very close. They understood my predicament and honestly were

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff I was into where how stuck I

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Speaker 1: am in this situation? And they said that the only

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Speaker 1: way we can get you off of this man is

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Speaker 1: that you have to tell your truth, and your truth

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Speaker 1: is going to get a lot of people in trouble.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I said no, I seem like the

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Speaker 1: gas chamber is a lot further away than exercise, are

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Speaker 1: you know? So I said, no, that's not me. You

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Speaker 1: can't go snitch. You know, people that they committed murder.

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Speaker 1: They'll kill you right there on that entercise, right there,

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Speaker 1: you're dead. In prison vernacular, snitches rats informants refer to

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Speaker 1: inmates who cooperate with prison personnel by furnishing damaging information

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Speaker 1: about other inmates, often in exchange for lighter sentences or

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Speaker 1: of notorious snitches in Orange County, California, who were rewarded

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Speaker 1: with almost limitless taco bell runs for their information, I

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Speaker 1: asked former San Quentin Warden Daniel Vasquez, what would have

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Speaker 1: happened if Jarvis were to cooperate with the police and

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Speaker 1: snitch on his fellow inmates. They would they would retaliate

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Speaker 1: against you and your family. They would kill you if

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Speaker 1: your family as well. Attorney, they will be there being

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Speaker 1: threatened by the game members. They were being threatened. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: about it. I always thought I was thinking out. I

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Speaker 1: the worst of the worst, Kill him quick and be

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Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is that it's far

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Speaker 1: exorbitant costs associated with pre trial and trial of capital cases,

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Speaker 1: To put that in perspective. Jarvis was sentenced to death

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Speaker 1: on July three, that equates to millions of California tax

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Speaker 1: So the untenable weight is over. I asked Jarvis how

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