May 19, 2026

JULIO FOOLIO MURDER: FOUR CONVICTED, JURY REJECTS DEATH PENALTY. PLUS LUIGI MANGIONE, TIGER WOODS, AND D4VD

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Transcript

All four guilty in the rapper’s birthday-party ambush — and a Tampa jury chooses life without parole over execution; plus quick turns in the Mangione, Woods, and David files.

Daily Crime and Justice returns to the daily desk after the Fighting Back series with four developments — and one of them is a finish line. In Tampa, the year-and-a-half saga of murdered rapper Julio Foolio reaches its end: all four defendants convicted of first-degree murder, and a jury rejecting the state’s push for the death penalty in favor of life without parole. Garret Fisher walks through the verdict, the penalty phase, and what still hangs over co-defendant Alicia Andrews. Plus three quick files — a partial suppression win for Luigi Mangione, prosecutors gaining access to Tiger Woods’ prescription records, and another delay in the David case.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, this is Daily Crime and Justice.

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I'm Garrett Fisher and it is Wednesday, May twentieth, twenty

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twenty six. If you've been with us the last couple

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of weeks, you've been hearing the Biting Back series, the

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underdog cases, the David and Goliath stories. That was the

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vacation slate, and it was a good one. But production

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is back. I'm back, and we are back to the

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daily docket. Let's get to work. Four stories on the

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desk this morning, and they split cleanly into two halves.

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The first half is paperwork. Three cases where nobody testified,

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nobody was sentenced, nobody cried on a stand, and yet

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the ground moved anyway. In New York, a judge handed

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Luigi Manjone a win, a partial, the kind of win

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where the headline says one thing and the fine print

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says another, and we are going to read you the

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fine print. Down in Florida, a judge decided that prosecutors

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get to look inside Tiger Woods's medicine cabinet. And if

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you remember what Woods told the deputies at the scene

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of that crash, you already know why that matters. And

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in Los Angeles, the case against the artist who records

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under the name David got pushed again the third time

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while his lawyers and the prosecutors stood in a courtroom

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and accused each other of running out the clock. We'll

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take all three quickly, and then the second half, the

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long one, because in Tampa, a case this show has

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been following for a year and a half finally reached

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the end of the road. Charles Jones, the Rapper of

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the World knew as Julio Fulio, was ambushed in a

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hotel parking lot on his twenty sixth birthday. Four men

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were on trial for it, and over the last two

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weeks a jury did two separate things. They decide whether

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those four men were guilty, and then they decided whether

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those four men should live. We are going to walk

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you through both of those decisions because they are not

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the same decision, and the gap between them is the

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whole story. Stay with us. Let's start in New York

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with Luigi Mangone quick reset for anyone new Mangione, now

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twenty eight, is charged in state court with second degree

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murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing

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of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot in the back

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outside a Manhattan hotel in December of twenty twenty four.

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He also faces federal stalking charges. He has pleaded not guilty.

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We covered the suppression fight on this show back in December,

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when his lawyers spent the better part of a week

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trying to convince a judge that the evidence against him

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was gathered illegally. On Monday, the judge ruled, and the

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coverage you'll see calls it a win for Mangione. It

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is sort of let me be honest with you about

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what actually happened. When Altuna police found Mangione eating breakfast

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at a McDonald's, officers started going through his backpack right

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there in the restaurant, and they said they did it

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because they were worried about a bomb. The judge wasn't

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buying that. He pointed out that if you genuinely believe

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a bag might explode, you do not open it surrounded

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by customers and employees. A real bomb search and a

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crowded dining room do not go together. So everything officers

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pulled out of that bag at the McDonald's, a loaded magazine,

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a cell phone, a passport, a wallet, a computer chip,

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all of it is suppressed, the jury will never see it.

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Here is the fine print. After the arrest, police took

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that same backpack back to the station and inventoried it

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a routine by the book catalog of a prisoner's property,

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and the judge said that search was clean, which means

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the two items that were also inside that bag, a

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handgun and a red notebook, are coming in. The gun,

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prosecutors say, matches the ballistics. The notebook, prosecutors say, contains

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his own handwritten plans. So yes, Mangoni's team knocked out

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the magazine and the wallets, they did not knock out

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the gun and the manifesto. The judge also ruled that

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statements Mangioni made to a corrections officer about the healthcare

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system about people seeming happier in poorer countries, those come

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in two because he volunteered them. Nobody was interrogating him.

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His state trial is set for September eighth. The federal

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one picks a jury in January. Will be there for both.

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Now to Florida and Tiger Woods. We brought you this

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one back at the start of April. Woods, fifty years old,

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crashed his land Rover on March twenty seventh, Investigators say

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he tried to pass a truck over a double solid line,

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clipped a Ford F one point fifty, and rolled his

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suv onto its side. No one was hurt. He has

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pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence and to

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refusing a test, and when deputies at the scene asked

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him about medications, Woods told them, and I want you

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to hold onto this exact sentence, he said, I took

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a few. That sentence is why this week's news matters.

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Prosecutors subpoened Woods's prescription drug records, the names of the drugs,

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the dosages, the warnings. Woods lawyers fought it hard on

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privacy grounds. On Tuesday, a judge ended the fight. The

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two sides reached an agreement, and the judge signed off.

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Prosecutors get the records. They'll be sealed from the public.

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You and I will likely never see the list, but

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the state will look. I'm going to be honest with you,

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this was never going to be a case about a beer.

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Woods denied drinking. The entire question here is what was

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in his system that was not alcohol, And now the

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people deciding whether to prosecute him get to see exactly

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what he was prescribed and how much woods For what

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it's worth, was given the court's permission to leave the

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country for what's described as comprehensive impatient treatment. So somewhere

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out there he is presumably getting help. His next court

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day is June second. The legal story and the human

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story are running on two different tracks here, and only

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one of them ends in a courtroom. And our third

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file is in Los Angeles, the case against the musician

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who records under the name David. If you've been with

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the show, you know it David. Legal name David Anthony Burke,

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twenty one years old, is charged with the first degree

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murder of fourteen year old Celeste Revas Hernandez, along with

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continuous lout acts with a child and the mutilation of

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human remains. He is pleaded not guilty. Celest's body was

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found last September, dismembered in the trunk of a Tesla

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registered in his name. This week's update is procedural, and

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it is frustrating, and I'll tell you why. There was

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a hearing Tuesday that was supposed to be the preliminary hearing,

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the seating where a judge decides whether the state has

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enough to send this to a full trial. It didn't happen.

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It got pushed to June twenty ninth. That is the

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third time the prelim has slipped. And inside the courtroom,

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the two sides pointed at each other. David's defense lawyers

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told the judge they had asked for the DNA evidence

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and still hadn't received it, and they accused prosecutors of

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stalling in their words, so they have more time to

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prep The lead prosecutor, Beth Silverman, pushed back, visibly frustrated,

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and she said something that I think is the honest

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center of this. These cases can drag on for years.

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She said the state has already handed over about ten

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terabytes of evidence out of at least forty, and that

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finishing it could take months. Here's the thing. Both of

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those can be true at once. The defense can be

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right that delay gives the prosecution time to rehearse, and

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the prosecution can be right that forty terabytes of digital

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evidence does not move overnight. What I can keep coming

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back to is the one name in this that does

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not get to file motions. Celeste Revas Hernandez was fourteen

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years old. She has been waiting for a courtroom since September.

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There's a status conference on June seventeenth, and the preliminary

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hearing for now June twenty ninth. We'll keep counting when

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we come back Tampa. A rapper who posted his own

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birthday plans to the entire Internet, and four men who

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prosecutors say read those posts like a map. The verdict,

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and then the harder question the jury had to answer afterward.

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Welcome back to Daily Crime and Justice. I'm Garrett Fisher.

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If you're a returning listener, you know this case. We

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brought you the original story back in October of twenty

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twenty five. We brought you the conviction of Alicia Andrews,

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the girlfriend, last November. We brought you the appeals fight

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in February when her sentencing judge got removed, and we

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were with you in April when the main trial began. Today,

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that trial is over and there is a lot to

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tell you. Quick refresher for anyone new Charles Jones twenty

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six years old. He performed as Juliofulio, a drill rapper

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out of Jacksonville, Florida, and a documented member of a

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Jacksonville street crew called six Block Six Block was, according

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to prosecutors, locked in a long running violent rivalry with

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two other Jacksonville factions, one called Aces Top Killers ATK

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and one called twelve hundred. I want you to hold

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on to that word rivalry. I'll come back to it

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in a minute, because it was fought over in this courtroom.

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June twenty third, twenty twenty four, Fulio is in Tampa

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for his birthday. And here's the detail the whole case

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turns on. He told everyone where he was. He posted

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it the airbnb, the pool, party, the clubs. His Instagram

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was in effect a live broadcast of his own location,

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and around five in the morning, in the parking lot

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of a hotel complex near the University of South Florida,

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vehicles pulled up, men got out, and they opened fire

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on the cars. Folio and his friends were sitting in

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thirty one nine millimeter shell casings on the ground. Afterward,

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bullets punched into occupied hotel rooms. A family on a

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college move in trip, kids in the room screaming a

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bullet through their air conditioning unit. The mother left with

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a burn on her leg from shrapnel. Three bystanders shot,

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and Charles Jones found in a defensive position inside his

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own car, killed by a round that passed through his chest,

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his heart, and his lungs. Four men stood trial for

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that morning, Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathright, Reshad Murphy Davian Murphy,

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each charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

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The fifth person originally charged, Alicia Andrews, was tried separately

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last year, and we'll get to her before we're done.

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The States case took about two and a half weeks,

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and it was built out of the modern world surveillance footage,

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cell tower data, instagram stories, recorded social media audio. Prosecutors

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walked the jury through how they alleged the four men

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drove three hours from Jacksonville, tracked folio from club to

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club using his own posts, and split into roles. Chance,

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the state said, helped scout locations, while Gathright and the

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two Murphys were the gunmen at the hotel. Forensic analysts

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told the jury that DNA recovered from tape on one

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of the rifles came back with a major contributor. Sean Gathright,

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a medical examiner, described the fatal wound. Gang unit detectives

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testified to the rivalry, to the tattoos, to the social

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media taunts, the drill videos mocking rivals who had already

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been killed, and the defense fought every piece of it.

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This is where that word rivalry comes back. The defense

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called its own expert, the professor who studies gangs, who

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told the jury that, in his assessment, these three groups

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did not actually have a gang war at all. Rashad

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Murphy's lawyer argued his client's phone simply does not place

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him in Tampa around the time of the killing. Gathwright's

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lawyer told the jury his client was barely eighteen and

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got swept up in something far bigger than him. Chance's

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attorney said, no weapon, no clothing, nothing forensic tied his

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client to the crime. DAVI and Murphy's lawyer said there

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was no message, no DNA, no proof his client planned anything.

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The common thread of the whole defense was the one

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you hear in a lot of these cases that the

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state had built a story out of assumptions and proximity,

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not proof. On May eighth, the jury went out, They

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deliberated for more than seven hours, and then they came

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back and they convicted all four men guilty of first

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degree murder, guilty of conspiracy. Every defendant, every count now,

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under Florida law, a first degree murder conviction is only

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the first half of the work, because the state had

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announced it wanted these four men to die, and so

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the same twelve people who had just said the word

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guilty were told to come back the following Monday and

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decide something much heavier, whether guilty should mean dead. We'll

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pick that up on the other side of the break

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when we come back the penalty phase. The defendant's families

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take the stand, One of the convicted men speaks for himself,

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and twelve jurors are asked to decide who lives. Stay

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with us. Welcome back, Garrett Fisher with you. Before the break,

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four men were convicted of murdering Charles Jones Julio Fulio.

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Now the same jury had to decide whether the state

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of Florida would put them to death. The penalty phase

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ran the better part of last week, and it is

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a very different kind of proceeding than the trial itself.

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The guilt phase is about what happened. The penalty phase

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is about who these people are, and the defense's entire

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job becomes building a case for mitigation, for a reason

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to choose life. So the jury heard from family from

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a former stepfather, a grandmother, a mother, a sister. They

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heard Sean gathwrte described as a kid who was smart

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and curious, who love football and travel. They heard Isaiah

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Chance described by his own grandmother as a boy so

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quiet he did not speak until he was four or

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five years old. A psychologist testified that Chance reads at

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roughly a fifth grade level, that his math sits around

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third grade, and that his measured IQ is seventy one,

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well below the average range, and that he has spent

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his whole life seeking approval, wanting to be seen as capable.

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They heard that Davian Murphy has learning disabilities, that his

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behavior got him pushed out of his own home and

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sent to live with a grandmother, that he bounced through

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fourteen different schools. These are the threads a defense pulls

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in a penalty phase, not to excuse what was done,

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to contextualize it, to say to twelve strangers, before you

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vote to end this life, here is the life. And

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Sean Gathwright did something his co defendants did not. He

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took the stand himself. He told the jury, and I'll

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quote him because the words matter. He said he was

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just there to be a man and take responsibility. He

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turned towards Charles Jones family and expressed remorse. He told

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them he had been doing programs in jail. His sister testified,

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and as she cried, Gathwright cried with her. I want

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to be careful here, because this is the part where

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editorial and fact have to stay in their lanes. I

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do not know what was in Shawn Gathright's heart on

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that witness stand. Neither do you. A man facing a

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death's sentence has every reason in the world to perform remorse,

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but a man can also genuinely feel it. Both of

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those things can be true at the same time, and

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the only people whose job it was to weigh them

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were the twelve in the box. On May fifteenth, they

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came back with their answer. For all four men, Chance Gathwright,

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and both Murphys. The jury recommended life in prison without

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the possibility of parole. They rejected the death penalty. The

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formal sentencing is set for June twenty second, and I'll

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note that date because it lands one day shy of

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the second anniversary of the morning Charles Jones was killed.

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Here's where I'll give you my honest read, and I'm

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flagging it as opinion. The state asked twelve people to

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kill four men, and twelve people said no. And I

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do not think that was softness. I think those jurors

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sat for two weeks with thirty one shell casings and

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a dead twenty six year old and a family with

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shrapnel burns, and then they sat for another week with

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an IQ score of seventy one and fourteen schools and

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a kid who did not talk until he was five,

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and they decided that life in a cell until death

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was punishment enough, and that the machinery of an execution

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would not make Charles Jones any less dead. You can

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agree with that or not. I think it is defensible.

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Life without parole is not mercy. It is the rest

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of your existence inside a box. These four men will

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die in prison. The jury simply declined to set the date.

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There is one piece still unfinished. Alicia Andrews, Isaiah Chance's girlfriend,

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the fifth person charged, was convicted last year of the

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lesser charge of manslaughter, and she has still not been sentenced.

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Her case has become its own tangle. Her original trial

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judge was removed for alleged bias. The prosecution is appealing

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that removal, and Andrews's own lawyers are now asking the

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court to throw out her conviction entirely and grant her

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a new trial. So that threat is still live, and

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we will keep pulling it, but step back from the

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procedure for a second. Charles Jones was twenty six years old.

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He was a rapper. He was good enough at it

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that strangers three hundred miles away knew his name and

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tracked his birthday. And that is the bitter center of

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this whole story. The same machine that built his career,

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the constant broadcasting, the location, the posts, the performance of

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his own life. That machine is exactly what four men

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used to find him and kill him. There is a

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playbook for this. Now you announce where you are. Your

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enemies read it, and the Internet becomes a map. Fulio

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did not invent that game, and he will not be

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the last person it kills. Charles Jones should have turned

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twenty eight last month. He did not. Four men will

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spend the rest of their lives answering for that. And

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his name was Charles Jones. Somebody has to say it.

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That's Daily Crime and Justice US for Wednesday, May twentieth,

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twenty twenty six. Quick recap. In New York, Luigi Manjone

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won a partial suppression ruling. The magazine and the wallet

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are out, but the gun and the notebook are in,

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and his state trial holds for September. In Florida, prosecutors

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won access to Tiger Woods's sealed prescription records. His next

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court date is June second. In Los Angeles, the case

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against the artist known as David slid again. The preliminary

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hearing now set for June twenty ninth, with a status

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check on the seventeen. And in Tampa, the four men

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who murdered Julia Fulio were convicted on every count and

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a jury chose life without parole over execution. They are

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formally sentenced June twenty second. We tracked the Fulio case

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for a year and a half on this show. It is,

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in the legal sense, nearly finished, but Charles Jones is

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still gone. Three bystanders still carry what happened in that

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parking lot, and a teenager named Celeste Revas Hernandez is

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still waiting for her day in a Los Angeles courtroom. Justice,

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when it comes, tends to come slow and tends to

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come incomplete. That does not mean we stop watching for it.

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I'm Garrett Fischer. It is good to be back on

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the daily desk. Look out for each other, do better.

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