#2287 - Josh Dubin & J.D. Tomlinson

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is gonna be wild. This is JD Tomlinson, the former prosecuting attorney for Lorain County, Ohio. And for the listeners, prosecuting attorney is similar to a DA in most jurisdictions. They just call it the prosecuted attorney. He was the the head attorney in, Lorain County, Ohio That's correct. Up until January.

So the reason why that's significant is the last time we were here, we were talking about that case, the case of the Ohio four. So let's why don't you recap that for everybody to serve for people that didn't listen to the previous podcast where we talked about this. So

the Ohio four are four gentlemen that were wrongfully convicted of a murder they didn't commit. And the last time I came on, we talked extensively about the case. You could read about it at freetheohio4.com. We have on that site my submission that I made to JD when he was the prosecuting attorney and all the exhibits supporting it. But what happened is this woman is murdered in the nineties, and these four men become suspects, actually, before there's any evidence against them whatsoever. In two and a half decades of doing post conviction work, I had never seen the police put in an affidavit,

over. Obviously,

it's over. So these guys all get sentenced and convicted to I believe it was twenty five years to life. That's right. And I became involved in the case about two years ago, year and a half ago, and dissected the record. And I I was blown away by what I had seen, and I've seen it all. I found out that William Avery junior walked into the FBI in 02/2004, and the FBI documents it. And he says, look. I was a drug addict. My father had threatened me. He was a drug addict, and he made me go in there and tell a lie about these men and falsely implicate them in a murder that they didn't commit. I'm no