Season 2 Trailer

Since his final state appeal at the end of last season, a stellar team of attorneys has assembled around Jarvis Masters, pledging to represent his death penalty case at federal level. We will follow his riveting case and meet some of those experts as they work to help Jarvis find freedom after over forty years of incarceration. And we will dig deeper into facets of Jarvis’s life as well as the deeply flawed criminal justice system. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Dear Governor Newsom, Dear Mr Governor Newson, this is an
open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom. It would be a
bold move to exoner h. Jarvis Masters. Last season, Dear
Governor of the podcast followed Jarvis Master's ongoing saga as
he and his legal team winded through the habeas corpus
oral arguments with the California Supreme Court. I'm not guilty

(00:23):
of the climate put me here on death roll for
the last thirty years. Despite considerable new evidence that bolster
Jarvis's claims of innocence, the state's highest court reconfirmed its
want and its appetite to execute another African American citizen.
When I heard about the decision, my immediate reaction was

(00:50):
I was crushed to the bowld. I'm your host, Corny Cole,
and this season on Dear Governor will head back to
the courts. Jarvis has now managed to secure the pro
bono representation at the federal level from the prestigious international
law firm Kirkland and Ellis. So the next step, after
one goes through the state system of the direct appeal

(01:11):
and then behaviors, is we give a defendant capital or
otherwise the right to go into federal court and to
show that the state court was unreasonable in rejecting his
or her constitutional claims. In addition to reporting on the

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post conviction proceedings, we will be joined by an array
of the fascinating characters who inhabit Jarvis's inner circle from
the outside of the prison confines the chaplain who worked
with Jarvis to establish Buddhist services on the row. What
I found on death Row is that it's the razor's edge.
I permanence. Life and death happened very regularly on death Row.

(01:54):
The private investigator who introduced Jarvis to Buddhism thirty years ago.
A prison is no place to meditate, and there's also
no place to open yourself up to your inner self,
you know, to start to feel your emotions. You can't
afford it. This federal appeals process will determine if Jarvis
will ever taste freedom again. If Mr Masters is put

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to death at the direction of you by the state,
that is something you cannot call back any more than
any of us can call back Sergeant birds Field, which
everyone in this room I know would wish so fervently
that we could Season two of Dear Governor The podcast
premiers June seventeenth. You'll hear from the experts who know
the case the best. You'll be the judge. The greatest

(02:38):
fear could ever imagine, walking out of here after all
these years, looking for where I belong in this big
old place. Listen and subscribe on the I Heart Radio app,
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