1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Dear Governor Newsom, Dear Mr Governor Newson, this is an 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom. It would be a 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: bold move to exoner h. Jarvis Masters. Last season, Dear 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: Governor of the podcast followed Jarvis Master's ongoing saga as 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: he and his legal team winded through the habeas corpus 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: oral arguments with the California Supreme Court. I'm not guilty 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: of the climate put me here on death roll for 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: the last thirty years. Despite considerable new evidence that bolster 9 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: Jarvis's claims of innocence, the state's highest court reconfirmed its 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: want and its appetite to execute another African American citizen. 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: When I heard about the decision, my immediate reaction was 12 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: I was crushed to the bowld. I'm your host, Corny Cole, 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: and this season on Dear Governor will head back to 14 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: the courts. Jarvis has now managed to secure the pro 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: bono representation at the federal level from the prestigious international 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: law firm Kirkland and Ellis. So the next step, after 17 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: one goes through the state system of the direct appeal 18 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: and then behaviors, is we give a defendant capital or 19 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: otherwise the right to go into federal court and to 20 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: show that the state court was unreasonable in rejecting his 21 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: or her constitutional claims. In addition to reporting on the 22 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: post conviction proceedings, we will be joined by an array 23 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: of the fascinating characters who inhabit Jarvis's inner circle from 24 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: the outside of the prison confines the chaplain who worked 25 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: with Jarvis to establish Buddhist services on the row. What 26 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: I found on death Row is that it's the razor's edge. 27 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: I permanence. Life and death happened very regularly on death Row. 28 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: The private investigator who introduced Jarvis to Buddhism thirty years ago. 29 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: A prison is no place to meditate, and there's also 30 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: no place to open yourself up to your inner self, 31 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: you know, to start to feel your emotions. You can't 32 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: afford it. This federal appeals process will determine if Jarvis 33 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: will ever taste freedom again. If Mr Masters is put 34 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: to death at the direction of you by the state, 35 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: that is something you cannot call back any more than 36 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: any of us can call back Sergeant birds Field, which 37 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: everyone in this room I know would wish so fervently 38 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,399 Speaker 1: that we could Season two of Dear Governor The podcast 39 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: premiers June seventeenth. You'll hear from the experts who know 40 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: the case the best. You'll be the judge. The greatest 41 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: fear could ever imagine, walking out of here after all 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: these years, looking for where I belong in this big 43 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: old place. Listen and subscribe on the I Heart Radio app, 44 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.