Tuesday: Wander Franco Gets a New Trial

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's see here we had other baseball news to get
to mention the Wonder Franco thing, and it didn't say
in the story I read why he was getting a
new trial. But he was the player that just signed
a couple of years ago the big deal with Tampa
one hundred and eighty million dollars, and shortly after that,
I wanted for arrest in the Dominican Republic for basically

(00:23):
running a human trafficking operation that included relations with under
underage girls. And he got. He got. I think he
got three years in the in the original deal you'll
see earlier this year, got a two year suspended sentence.

(00:46):
Tuesday's ruling has pushed the conviction and suspension to be overturned.
It again, it doesn't say here. The court says there
were many flaws, many omissions, many issues, and decided to
send the case to a new trial. I've said this
a million times before. If something that is that egregious

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I was ever accused of and I didn't do it,
I would have a hard time following a lawyer's lead
and say shut your mouth, because Wander Franco's got more
here than a reputation, which is important. I think he
has a baseball career, and the baseball career is virtually
over because no major league baseball team is ever going
to as ever going to pick him up again, even

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if he's exonerated. And if he's exonerated, yes, because that means, hey,
this didn't happen. This was all made up, this was fabricated.
But it's really difficult. I think we live in a
cynical world, and sometimes that cynical world says, I don't
believe that you're didn't do this. There's evidence that says
you did. So he did it, and we're supposed to
be innocent. He'll proven guilty, not necessarily in the Dominican Republic,

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but in most places. But I would hope that he
wasn't wrongfully convicted, and I'm guessing he wasn't, but I'm
hoping that that that's not the issue.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, I think I would. I mean, I think I
would be inclined to agree with you, But if I
remember some of the details of the actual court trial,
I mean, they had like text messages from the girl's
mom and him discussing payments, and like, I don't know
how you explain that away or how a new three

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judge panel is going to overlook that in a new trial.
Maybe it's just there were some clerical issues. The same
evidence we'll use again will get the same guilty. You know.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's like, you know, oj was found not guilty, but
in the court of public opinion, he was as guilty
as today, as long and so joej never got his
life back. Had there been some kind of evidence that
he didn't do it, I think his life would have
turned out far different than it did. But most people
that viewed the trial from television, this guy's the guy

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did it and he should go to jail.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Wait, you mean the book he wrote didn't convince you
that he wasn't the killer. That was what convinced me.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I didn't read the book. Sorry, missed that.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
One Christmas present, It's coming

Speaker 1 (03:12):
College football by discussion next five point fifty six on
the ticket