Speaker 1: Dear Governor Newsom, Dear Mr Governor Newson, this is an
Speaker 1: open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom. It would be a
Speaker 1: bold move to exoner h. Jarvis Masters. Last season, Dear
Speaker 1: Governor of the podcast followed Jarvis Master's ongoing saga as
Speaker 1: he and his legal team winded through the habeas corpus
Speaker 1: oral arguments with the California Supreme Court. I'm not guilty
Speaker 1: of the climate put me here on death roll for
Speaker 1: the last thirty years. Despite considerable new evidence that bolster
Speaker 1: Jarvis's claims of innocence, the state's highest court reconfirmed its
Speaker 1: want and its appetite to execute another African American citizen.
Speaker 1: When I heard about the decision, my immediate reaction was
Speaker 1: I was crushed to the bowld. I'm your host, Corny Cole,
Speaker 1: and this season on Dear Governor will head back to
Speaker 1: the courts. Jarvis has now managed to secure the pro
Speaker 1: bono representation at the federal level from the prestigious international
Speaker 1: law firm Kirkland and Ellis. So the next step, after
Speaker 1: one goes through the state system of the direct appeal
Speaker 1: and then behaviors, is we give a defendant capital or
Speaker 1: otherwise the right to go into federal court and to
Speaker 1: show that the state court was unreasonable in rejecting his
Speaker 1: or her constitutional claims. In addition to reporting on the
Speaker 1: post conviction proceedings, we will be joined by an array
Speaker 1: of the fascinating characters who inhabit Jarvis's inner circle from
Speaker 1: the outside of the prison confines the chaplain who worked
Speaker 1: with Jarvis to establish Buddhist services on the row. What
Speaker 1: I found on death Row is that it's the razor's edge.
Speaker 1: I permanence. Life and death happened very regularly on death Row.
Speaker 1: The private investigator who introduced Jarvis to Buddhism thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: A prison is no place to meditate, and there's also
Speaker 1: no place to open yourself up to your inner self,
Speaker 1: you know, to start to feel your emotions. You can't
Speaker 1: afford it. This federal appeals process will determine if Jarvis
Speaker 1: will ever taste freedom again. If Mr Masters is put
Speaker 1: to death at the direction of you by the state,
Speaker 1: that is something you cannot call back any more than
Speaker 1: any of us can call back Sergeant birds Field, which
Speaker 1: everyone in this room I know would wish so fervently
Speaker 1: that we could Season two of Dear Governor The podcast
Speaker 1: premiers June seventeenth. You'll hear from the experts who know
Speaker 1: the case the best. You'll be the judge. The greatest
Speaker 1: fear could ever imagine, walking out of here after all
Speaker 1: these years, looking for where I belong in this big
Speaker 1: old place. Listen and subscribe on the I Heart Radio app,
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