Sean “Diddy” Combs & Nolan Wells: The Updates

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Hey everyone and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of
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the Elite. I'm your host Jim Chapman and today I'm
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bringing you an episode that a lot of people have
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asked me to do and that is a follow up
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on what is going on currently. with the person that
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I have dropped the most episodes on since this show's existence.
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And that is.
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Sean Diddy Combs. So today, I'm going to catch you up.
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We're going to talk about several things that have made
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the news since he went into prison. after his sentencing,
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and we're going to get into it right now. I'm
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going to start on the morning of October 30th, 2025,
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and Sean Combs, who incidentally is inmate number 37452-054, tell
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me I don't do my research, he leaves the Metropolitan
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Detention Center in Brooklyn. That's MDC Brooklyn. We've talked about
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that many times. He had been there since September 16th, 2024,
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which is, of course, the night federal agents arrested him
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at a Manhattan hotel. He had 13 months of pretrial detention,
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an eight-week trial, a split verdict, and a 50-month sentence.
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And all of that were behind him. It's time now
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to start his sentence.
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And ahead of him.
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was FCI Fort Dix. Now this is a low security
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federal prison. It sits on an old army post in
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New Hanover Township, New Jersey, which is about 80 miles
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south of Manhattan. Now the transfer was not a surprise.
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It was the placement that his lawyers had asked for.
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It's low security, right? They want something that is this
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time that Diddy's going to have to do to be
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as easy as possible. Now, to understand why Fort Dix
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mattered so much to them, you have to understand what
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MDC Brooklyn was like for Diddy. MDC is a federal jail.
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It's a holding tank, if you will, for people that
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are awaiting trial and sentencing. It's not the end all
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be all of where they're going to be. It's just
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there while they go through a trial and then they
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leave there. It's crowded, it's understaffed, and for years it
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had been the subject of complaints, inmate deaths.
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Power failures.
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And food so bad that maggots became a recurring word
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in court lawsuits. Now, two weeks after Combs arrived at MDC,
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prosecutors charged nine MDC inmates with crimes that included assault,
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attempted murder, and murder. And this was from the months
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before Sean Combs got there. That's the building he had
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walked into. Now, his lawyers later told the judge the
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conditions were inhumane. They said he slept within two feet
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of other men in a dorm-style room.
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I mean, it is jail after all, right?
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Said he had a bathroom that had no door in
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the same space. They said he had not breathed air
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or felt sunlight on his skin for nearly 13 months.
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I know, he's in jail, right? Of course, prosecutors, they
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pushed back. They said staffing had improved. There had been
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no lockdowns in his unit and that his account was
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very misleading. They also noted he had been on suicide
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watch for a total of seven days. Now, the two sides,
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they never really agreed on this picture, and stories of
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violence followed him throughout the whole year. Now, at sentencing,
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defense lawyer Brian Steele told the court that guards had
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stopped someone from trying to cut Combs with a makeshift knife.
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A longtime friend later described a version in which Combs
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woke up with a blade at his throat. Then, a
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former inmate Raymond Castillo, he sat for interviews and said
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the viral version of that story was inflated. And his telling,
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he said the fight started over a chair and while
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Combs was watching a show called Basketball Wives. As he
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tells it, a West Coast gang member doing 30 years
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wanted that seat. Words were exchanged. The man came back
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with a homemade knife, and Castillo said he grabbed the
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arm before it could land on Combs. He said Combs
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stayed calm and told the man that he might need
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to pray. So to sum all that up, he was
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in a pretty tough place. Now, by the time the
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judge imposed 50 months on Combs in October 3rd of 2025,
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he had already done more than a year in that building.
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And the remaining question at that point was, where was
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he going to do the rest of that time? So
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as I told you, the lawyers, they asked for him
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to serve his time at Fort And the reason they
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gave for this was pretty specific. The drug abuse program
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at that prison was pretty strong, has a good reputation.
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The family visitation there was a lot more lenient in
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the proximity to his New York legal team was also
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a big consideration in that because obviously Sean Combs was
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going to appeal to this verdict and they wanted to
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make it easy on themselves as well. It was only
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80 miles from Manhattan. In Sean Combs' eyes, it was
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close enough that his mother, who was in her 80s,
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his adult children in the New York area, all of
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those could visit him and it wouldn't.
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Be a pain in the ass to do that. They
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were only like an hour away.
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So to tell you a little bit about Fort Dix,
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as I said, it was carved out of an old
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military barracks. This is in the early 1990s. And it's
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the largest low security federal prison.
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In the country.
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Now, population figures around the time Combs arrived tell me
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there's roughly 3,900 to 4,100 men on that low security
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side of that prison, plus a couple of hundred more
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in an adjacent minimum security, what they call a satellite camp.
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And Combs went to the low security, not to the
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satellite camp. Now, Low security is a classification. It's not
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exactly a spa. There are fences there. There are counts there.
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You can get what.
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They call disciplinary tickets that can cost you good time there.
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And while you don't have like traditional cells with bars,
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they do have barracks there and you actually live in
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these barracks. And these barracks consist of rooms that hold
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about 12 people, six bunk beds. Each one has a locker.
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There's no lock on the room door, however. Inside buildings
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can hold a few hundred people. Bathrooms are communal bathrooms,
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one per floor. And former inmates describe the showers and
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say that they run really hot and then they go
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ice cold like a fire hose. That's how they describe it. Now,
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food complaints are pretty constant there. Look, it always is
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inside a prison. You're not going to, you know, a
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five-star hotel and having a meal. oatmeal, baked fish, rice, pasta.
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That's typically what your meals are going to consist of
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inside of that particular prison. Commissary is capped there at
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$ 360 a month. Of course, Diddy has a lot more
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money than that to spread around, but he can't get
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any more commissary than that. And the reason they cap
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that is because commissary is like currency.
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In prison.
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So they don't want Diddy to be able to get $ 10, 000
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worth of ramen noodles and trade them for favors. Now
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there have been some photos that come out of Combs
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at Fort Dix and those actually landed in November of 2025.
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TMZ published images of him on the yard in that prison.
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He had on an orange beanie and a navy jacket
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and he was walking the rec area. It was about
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50 degrees outside. And his hair was fully gray. The
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face was thinner than you would see in his red
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carpet photos from 2023. And then the videos came. In
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late November, unauthorized clips from inside the compound showed Combs
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finishing an evening shift in the media library. He peels
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off a blue jacket and a scarf. And underneath, of course,
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gray prison sweats, a brown knit cap, He put the
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jacket back on, slides headphones over his ears, and walks out.
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Another clip showed him cap off in the hallway with
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his gray hair completely visible, talking with other men while
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someone is pushing a cart. Now, officials later looked into
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how a phone or a tablet got inside that federal prison.
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But look, if they want to get it in there,
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they're going to get it in there. That's not going
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to be any problem. And by July 2026, more footage surfaced.
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Combs was walking around the compound in a white t-shirt,
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tan shorts, Nike sneakers, a cap, and that was also
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put out by TMZ. Now, let me take you into
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a day inside that compound. At Fort Dix, wake up
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starts early, 5 or 6 a.m., depending on whose account
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you read. Breakfast is institutional style, oatmeal, bran flakes. The
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compound opens, counts happen multiple times per day, and you
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can expect to be on your butt. for those counts.
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You have to report where they tell you to report
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at that time. Work or programming starts in the morning.
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Then you have lunch. Then you have more work. Dinner's
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around five o'clock. You have some recreation in the evening
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and final count is around nine o'clock that evening. Lights
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out by 11. Now, miss a count, and you can
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catch a shot. Enough shots, and you lose the programs
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that shorten the sentence. And I don't mean catch a bullet.
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Catch a shot is just slang for you're going to
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get written up for it, basically. Now, I mentioned that
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there was some footage of Combs in the chapel library.
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And to tell you about that, he works as a
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chaplain's assistant. More precisely, in that chapel library, and media library,
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and he hands out movies and religious materials.
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And if you ask.
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Anyone who has done federal time why that job is
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so coveted, a former prison commissioner told CBS that the
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tasks are ordinary. It's nothing like difficult. But the perks
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that you get with that particular job are real. You
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work in a quieter space. There's often air conditioning in there.
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Chaplains bring food in for services. And it's one of
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the few places men can gather without it looking like
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a yard click, right? Like you see on Shawshank Redemption,
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where people are in a circle outside in the yard.
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So it's a very coveted job. And it doesn't surprise
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me that Sean Combs would end up having that job.
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I also mentioned the residential drug abuse program there. And
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it's a very intensive substance abuse program.
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It's not a weekly meeting.
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Inmates who qualify live in a separate unit away from
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general population. The model is half day treatment there, half
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work days or education, and the course can run nine
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to 12 months and involve hundreds of hours. Now, if
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you complete it, you stay clean, keep your record reasonably
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clean inside that prison. The Bureau can take up to
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a year off of your sentence. So that is why Specifically,
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the attorneys were fighting so hard to get in this prison.
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That's a big deal.
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Now, I mentioned tickets or write-ups, and within a month
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of the transfer from Sean Combs to MDC to this
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particular prison, the compound story started, right? Rolling Stone's reported
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two early issues he had. First, a forbidden three-way phone
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call in which Combs instructed a woman on his team
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to contact a, quote, digital person about social media blog posts.
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I reported on that on an earlier podcast.
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Of course, that got out there. He got caught for that.
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He got wrote up for that.
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There was also some reporting that they found a homemade
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concoction inside his area and That was fermenting apples, Fanta,
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the drink and sugar, which y'all makes what prison hooch
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prison wine. You can get drunk as hell off of
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that hooch. And he got caught trying to make it.
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And again, he got right up for that. Then in
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the summer of 2026, July to be specific, TMZ and
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then Rolling Stone reported a physical altercation at Fort Decks. Now,
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the story as it was told was another inmate dissed
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Sean Combs. Words were exchanged, then shoves and then punches.
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Staff broke it up and Combs got thrown in solitary
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for that. A source said he held his own. His
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representative did not confirm it. The Bureau was asked about
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it later.
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And gave a standard non-answer.
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They don't discuss housing investigations or sanctions of individual inmates.
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You may have also heard a couple of other things
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that have come out recently. One of them involves the
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13th juror. And one of them is a letter to
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the president. So I want to talk about the brief
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that essentially accused the judge in this case of being
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a 13th juror. And that full brief landed on December
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23rd of 2025, 84 pages. Alexandra Shapiro, who had wrote
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that brief, and she said in it, he sits in
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prison today serving a 50-month sentence because the judge acted...
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as a 13th juror. Now, the defense main claim is
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that the jury was wrong about the Mann Act. She
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basically was accusing the judge in this case of treating
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the women as coerced, exploited, enforced, and that making an
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impression on a jury. Now, this is reach. Obviously, you
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would expect that they would challenge anything they could in
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this case.
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I don't believe this at all.
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I It's a reach. And they tried to do it.
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They also wrote a letter to the president asking for
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a pardon. So Combs and Donald Trump, they.
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Knew each other.
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OK, they were on the New York circuit, if you will,
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in the 1990s and 2000s. They had attended gatherings together
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and charity events, not together, but they were in the
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same place at the same time. And Trump has said
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in the past he was very friendly with Combs and
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that he seemed like a nice guy and that he
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didn't know him very well.
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But he had met him, of course, several times.
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And it doesn't surprise me that his legal team would
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reach out at some point wanting a pardon. And that
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outreach started pretty early after his sentence. Rolling Stone reported
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that people around Combs began working Trump world, if you will,
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after the October 3rd sentence. And if you'll also remember,
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at some point, a White House official, supposedly, that's quote, unquote,
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said that Trump might commute the sentence that very week
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that he was sentenced. Now, I didn't believe that at all.
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And when the White House was asked about it, they
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said there was zero truth to it. It was fake
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news and reminded everyone that the president decides pardons, not
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anybody else. Combs had not at that point even filed
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a formal clemency petition with the Justice Department. That would
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be the standard procedure. But on January 8th of 2026,
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a letter did come. Trump told the New York Times
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that Combs had asked him for a pardon through a letter.
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He offered theoretically to show reporters the letter, but he
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didn't actually show it. He said he was not considering
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granting the letter. And after Trump came out and said that,
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Combs' representative did decline to comment on that. So he
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didn't deny a letter was sent. However, It's important to note,
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Trump said, I'm not going to commute this guy's sentence.
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So that's all I got on that. Now, I do
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want to talk about, and a lot of people have asked,
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what about all these civil suits you covered in the podcast?
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The criminal case is one file. The civil cases, y'all,
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they're a whole second file. They're a whole second career.
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If you will.
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When Sean Combs was arrested in September of 2024, he
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had a lot of people out there and they were
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talking as if the indictment would swallow everything else. The
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freak-off testimony, the hotel video, all of those things, that
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was never how this was going to work. Very important
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to put that. Cassie Ventura's lawsuit, as a matter of fact,
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had already been filed and settled and closed before any
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of this ever started with this criminal stuff. Now, if
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you remember, there's 111 civil cases, 101 named plaintiffs, And
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of those, 70 of those cases are still open and
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41 of those cases have been closed. Now, if you'll
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also remember, I reported on a couple of those specifically
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that were found out to be bullshit. They were made up.
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And you're going to find that. When you have 111
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civil cases, not all 111 are legit. There are going
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to be people out there that are just seeking to
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get paid. They saw an opportunity to make money. But
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I do believe at least 50% of these are probably legit,
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real lawsuits. And there's going to be some prices to
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pay on that at some point. But 70 of those
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haven't even been closed yet. Now, let's talk about Diddy
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real quick, because lawsuits were being fired at him. And
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at one point, he decides he's going to fire back.
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He spent, as a matter of fact, in 25 and 2026,
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doing something he had rarely had to do as a defendant,
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and that is sue all these people who were talking
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about him. Now, two of those cases were built as
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nine-figure reputation lawsuits. One was aimed at NBCUniversal, Peacock, and
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the The other was aimed at News Nation's parent company,
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a lawyer and a man who went on television that
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talked about flash drives and baby oil. Now, these two
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lawsuits together were supposed to be the counter-offensive, proof that
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the coverage had gone from reporting to piling on and
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that someone was going to have to pay for it.
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What came out after he was locked up is the
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counteroffensive mostly ate itself up. A New York judge threw
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out the Peacock case in April of 2026 and wrote
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in language that would follow Combs for the rest of
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his public life that it was inconceivable the film had
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added damage to a reputation already in ruins. You can't
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hurt a reputation that doesn't exist anymore, is what that
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judge said.
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And that is a fact.
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Five months later, lawyers on the News Nation case, they
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asked for a federal judge for permission to walk away
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from Diddy completely.
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Why?
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Because they had six months of unpaid bills and a
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client that they couldn't get on the phone. Combs said
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he fired them after they were overcharging him. The firm,
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of course, denies this. Either way, the man, meaning Sean Combs,
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who used to hire rooms full of attorneys, was now
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arguing with his own attorneys.
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And that's pretty much it.
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That's the catch up of Sean Combs as of now.
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He's scheduled to get out sometime in 2028. So it's
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actually coming up. I mean, he's got about another two
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years left before he will be released in prison if
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he can keep his nose clean. And if not, he's
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going to add to that sentence. Now, just another quick
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thing before I get out of here today, since we're
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doing kind of a catch up episode, I also want
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to catch you up on some breaking Nolan Wells news.
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And I'm just going to quote an article here from
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WAFB Channel 9. And the reason I'm quoting it is
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I want to make sure that all this information that
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I say to you is completely accurate. And this just broke.
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It just came across my phone and I scanned over
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it and I'm going to read it for you quickly
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because it is big news. And there's also some shocking
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content in here. It says the parents of Nolan Wells
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and their legal team are continuing to call for an honest,
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transparent and fair investigation into their son's death, despite. despite
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a Jackson County grand jury issuing a no-true bill. And quickly,
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what a no-true bill means is that there's not enough
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evidence there to proceed with a trial, and a grand
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jury is convened for that, okay? Important to note. Now, Nolan,
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as you know, went to Horn Island with his friends.
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Never came home. This was on July 4th, and his
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body was found two days later on the shore of
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the island. Monday night, the Jackson County District Attorney's Office
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released the grand jury's report, which found no evidence of
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criminal activity in Nolan's death. Tuesday morning, Nolan's parents, Christine
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and Elmore.
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Wansley, were joined by Ben Crump. Imagine that.
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And his team at a press conference in Atlanta where
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they demanded the investigation continue as many questions are still
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left unanswered, even though a grand jury sees no reason
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to go forward because there's no evidence of any wrongdoing there.
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The grand jury left us with questions, civil rights attorney
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Ben Crump said during the conference. Nolan's family deserves answers.
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What caused recent blunt trauma to his head? Did it
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contribute to his death? referenced multiple times during the news
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conference was blunt force trauma to the back of Nolan's
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head and back. The independent autopsy report released by Crump's
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team said Dr. Roger Mitchell found that Nolan sustained recent
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unexplained blunt force injuries to the back of his head
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and additional areas of his back.
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That is like a half-truth, y'all.
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The state's autopsy had not been publicly released, but the
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grand jury report states the state autopsy and independent autopsy
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disagree about the presence of bruising non-deep tissue on Mr.
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Wells' buttocks and shoulder. The independent autopsy report also said
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the red discoloration previously identified on the back of Nolan's
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head was confirmed as blood and reported as two contusions
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or bruises by the medical examiner during the original autopsy.
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This information would have been shared with the jury. Important
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to note. A witness who testified under oath said Wells
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slipped awkwardly off.
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The side of the boat.
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That was something new that we didn't know on January 4th,
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but continued socializing and didn't appear to be hurt. So
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did he slip, hit his head, but I mean, I've
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hit my head a hundred times slipping off a boat.
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and I was never hurt. But it could have been
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enough to maybe bruise my head. Moving on, it says
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no signs of physical trauma were found, according to the
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grand jury report. Both autopsies ruled Nolan's cause and manner
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of death as undetermined, because it has to be undetermined.
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Nobody saw him actually die. However, court documents noted an
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accidental drowning is consistent with the evidence and that the
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evidence does not rule it out. The final independent autopsy
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report says that drowning is a diagnosis of exclusion. and
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all other causes must be ruled out before confirming death
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as a drowning. Quote, how can a jury come to
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the conclusion of drowning despite knowing there was trauma to
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his body and despite hearing many inconsistencies? That was from
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his mom, Christine. Elmore and I do not believe Nolan
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simply accidentally drowned and nobody saw anything and no one
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knows anything. Well, I understand you don't believe that, but
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in this case... Nobody's come forward saying they saw anything
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or knew anything. Christine Wansley goes on to say she
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received a text from Jackson County District Attorney Angel McRath
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Monday night at 7.54 p.m. informing her the grand jury
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report had been filed earlier in the day. At 7.56 p.m.,
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the DA's office Facebook page posted a 15-minute video statement.
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In the video, DA McGrath outlined several findings from the
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grand jury report as well as correspondence from the family's
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legal team. The full redacted grand jury report was also
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included in the post. To me, the action showed a
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lack of empathy and a need to get this case
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done and over with, Christine said. The state autopsy has
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not been publicly released. The state legally cannot release an
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autopsy except to the family of the victim or their
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legal team. During the press conference, Crump said they were
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told very clear up front that they would not be
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given any information on the state's autopsy until the grand
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jury proceeding had finished. However, in a video statement, the
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DA said shortly after she received the autopsy report. she
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reached out to Christine, quote, another false narrative is that
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I kept the results from Nolan's autopsy and toxicology from
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his family.
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This is false.
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Shortly after I received the autopsy report, I reached out
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to Nolan's mother directly, and when she did not respond,
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I spoke with one of her Mississippi attorneys and shared
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Nolan's autopsy and toxicology results. My abiding by the law
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and not releasing the autopsy and toxicology results to the
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public is in no way impeded Nolan's family or the
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Crump team from obtaining the results and a copy of
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the results pursuant to the law. Then it goes into
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the phone inspection, and it says, quote, Listen to this.
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On the morning of the agreed on extraction date, our
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law enforcement investigators were contacted by privately retained examiners with
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Garrett Discovery Inc. They advised that the mutual fund extraction
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would not occur as they had begun a private extraction
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the evening prior and it was incomplete. I respected the
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family's decision for a private examination and requested those results
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be shared.
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With my office. On August 28, 2026.
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The Crump team advised that I would receive the extraction
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data by FedEx within 48 hours and provided a 14-page
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preliminary report indicating the phone had not been accessed by
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anyone other than Nolan's family and nothing have been deleted
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off the phone since Nolan's last use. I have never
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received the full extraction data as promised, and I never
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received a complete extraction report of Nolan's cell phone. And
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that's important, y'all. Why are you telling someone you will
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do this and then.
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Not do it?
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Now, after the grand jury convened in this case, the
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Crump team provided a 282-page selection of reports from Nolan's
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cell phone, which the grand jury considered. Ahmaud Smith is
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a Mississippi-based attorney working with the Crump team. During the
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press conference, he said the family never inspected the phone
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with officials because they did not agree to the terms
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the DA's office requested, which, according to Smith, were the
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family to drop the phone off and leave it with
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law enforcement. That was not The original terms were that
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the family do that and they didn't want to do that.
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So they said, OK, send your reps over here and
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we'll do the extraction together. And they still didn't want
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to do that, y'all. Crump said the full results of
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the phone inspection will be discussed in a separate press
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conference on Thursday in Orlando. Of course it will, because
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he's not going to do anything with the state of Mississippi.
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because he's trying to create a narrative that doesn't exist here. Quote,
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we think it's going to be enlightening when you go
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through the phone extraction and everything going through the data
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on this phone, Crump said. Christine said she and her
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husband have read through the grand jury report more than
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once and still don't have answers. She said it reinforced
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that Nolan was not given a thorough, transparent, and honest investigation. Quote,
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last night was a reminder our son's life does not
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matter to those who hold positions and are supposed to
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serve and protect the public. I disagree with that 100%.
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They have not only spent a ton of time, they
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spent a ton of money. And believe me, a case
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like this, which people in the business would call an ape,
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an acute political emergency, they're really going to spend a
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lot of time and money on. They've done everything they could.
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They put it in front of a grand jury, and
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a grand jury said there's not enough evidence.
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Not them.
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Crump reinforced that Nolan's family does not believe he would
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have left his phone on a boat or stayed behind
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on the island and things still didn't add up. Look,
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maybe they don't believe that. But that doesn't mean it
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didn't happen. There are a lot of things my parents
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didn't believe I would do when I was 18, 19,
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20 years old.
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Didn't mean I didn't do.
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They go on to say Jackson County D.A. will have
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you accept that Nolan Wells death can be summarized in
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three words.
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We'll never know.
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But Nolan's family offers three other words. We will never stop.
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Never stop. We will never stop. until we get to
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the truth, Crump said. Christine said she believed Nolam would
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support the actions his parents have taken over the past
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couple of months. Quote, I know without a shadow of
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a doubt that if Nolam were here right now, he
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would be in full support. He would support every single
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thing that his father and I have done. Despite the
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grand jury decision, Elmore and our family will continue to
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fight for justice. And Nolan's father, Elmore, echoed the same statement.
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I mean, I understand why the family is pushing that.
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That was my kid. I would probably push it till
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the end of time, too. But I don't know what
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you want the state of Mississippi to do. They presented
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everything was considered possible. All the evidence they have in
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this case to a grand jury, grand jury says there's
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no evidence here that anybody did anything to Nolan Wells.
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So the last thing that I'm going to do for today,
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I want you to listen to this 15 minute clip
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where the district attorney for the state of Mississippi comes
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out and announces that these findings by the grand jury
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have found no wrongdoing and have issued a true, a
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no true bill rather. in this case, and I want
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you to listen to it specifically for one reason. You
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tell me if this lady sounds like she's not doing
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everything she can to get justice for Nolan Wells.
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Jackson County, after a thorough and exhaustive investigation, your grand
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jury met last week concerning the death investigation of Nolan
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Wells and unanimously returned a no true bill. In addition
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to bringing prosecutions against the guilty, The grand jury must
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also exonerate those who have been falsely accused. The grand
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jury was comprised of a diverse group of individuals representing
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a cross-section of our Jackson County community. A copy of
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the grand jury report has been filed with the Jackson
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County Circuit Clerk as required by law, and a redacted
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copy of the report is publicly available on our website,
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Facebook page, and at the Circuit Clerk's office. I took
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my oath as District Attorney. a little over a year
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after burying my own child. When I was sworn in,
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I promised to fight for and protect you and your
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children as I would my own. I meant it then,
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and I mean it now. The death of Nolan Wells
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has devastated our community. Outsiders and influencers have attempted to
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exploit Nolan's death to divide and create chaos here. But
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we are better together. Our community has suffered many tragedies,
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and I know that in the midst of this terrible loss,
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hateful rhetoric, and vile speculation, what has been damaged in
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our community will be restored. The narrative that three white
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boys and a black boy went to an island and
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only three white friends returned spread like wildfire. This was false.
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Nolan went to Horn Island on July 4, 2026, with
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a large group of friends. and while on the island,
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he connected with even more friends. There is absolutely no
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evidence to support the allegations that Nolan's disappearance and death
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were racially motivated. Nolan's friends loved Nolan, and Nolan loved them.
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Nolan chose to stay on the island that day, and
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there is not a scintilla of evidence to contradict that.
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The family, the Crump team, and anyone close to Nolan
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knew that his disappearance and death were not the result
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of racial hate or violence. Yet the flames of that
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narrative set against the backdrop of Mississippi's terrible history were
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fanned by both people who knew the truth and those
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who didn't. I cannot tell you how difficult it is
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observing people create narratives detrimental to our community when I
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have true knowledge that I cannot legally or ethically share.
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But my job requires discipline and restraint. I am responsible
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for protecting the integrity of active investigations, and I will
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always make decisions that most faithfully protect and respect the law,
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regardless of circumstances. That is the difference between an attorney
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whose duty is owed to an individual client and a
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district attorney whose duty is owed to the community as
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a whole. I strictly and conservatively interpret the laws concerning
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what I can and should share with the public about
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a case. In the death investigation of Nolan Wells, that
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has meant that our community had to wait. The grand
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jury report provides you with a fuller picture of what
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was happening during that time. The secrecy of the grand
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jury is not a veil that we hide behind. It
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is a shield that protects the integrity of prosecutions of
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the guilty and is meant to protect the innocent from
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the destruction of false allegations. The grand jury room and
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the courtroom are where the community sees the work of
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your district attorney. That is transparency. Transparency exists in following
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the law, abiding by it, having reverence for it, respecting
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the process, and having the discipline and restraint to allow
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the process to take place even when there is public
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pressure to prematurely speak. And before I say anything else
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about what happened in this case, I want to acknowledge
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something I will never lose sight of. I know what
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it is to bury a child. You are vulnerable in
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ways that are incomprehensible to people who have never stood there.
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You want answers. You want something to make sense. You
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want to know why. Why my child? Why my baby?
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Why now? Why this way? And oftentimes, more than anything,
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you want something or someone that you can hold responsible.
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You are trying to make sense of something that is
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absolutely senseless. I understand that. And I believe grieving parents
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should be given grace and space to grieve. What I
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cannot accept and what I cannot ignore is that false
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narratives that Nolan's death was somehow racially motivated and that
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this is a case of another young black man denied
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justice by a racist, corrupt system were perpetuated and allowed
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to spread. There is not a shred of evidence to
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support these narratives. Keep in mind all that has transpired
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publicly as you review the grand jury report and the
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correspondence I'm releasing in conjunction with this statement. For example,
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On July 15, 2026, Nolan's family and the Crump team
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were shown evidence of Nolan purchasing his own alcohol, but
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that fact they chose not to share with the public.
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From our first meeting, I extended an open offer to
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provide the grand jury with any evidence whatsoever that the
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family wanted them to have, including the findings and testimony
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of their independent medical examiner. This is not a practice
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unique to the Nolan Wells case, but this is how
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I have always conducted business as your prosecutor. On August 13th, 2026,
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after the Crump team conducted and released the results of
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its independent autopsy, and after receiving hundreds of tips, they
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advised my office that they had no evidence of a
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crime being committed against Nolan Wells. Just this weekend, I
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read where a Congresswoman had met with Nolan's family and
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the Crump team and said that Nolan Wells is another
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black boy murdered and no one seems to care. Ma'am,
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you are wrong. The Crump team knows this and knows
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that they are dealing with a district attorney whose unwavering
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pursuit of the truth gave them all a seat at
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the table to offer the grand jury any and every
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piece of evidence they deemed important to this investigation. Keep
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in mind that this meeting with the Congresswoman was after
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the Crump team advised my office they had discovered no
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evidence of a crime against Nolan. And understand that our
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investigation was exhaustive. And our complete investigation was presented to
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the grand jury. I also want you to understand that
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I'm not suggesting that a grieving mother policed the rumors
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surrounding her child's death. What I am suggesting is that
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the Crump team knew better, but did not do better.
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I am giving you the opportunity to see for yourself
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what was communicated between my office and the Crump team.
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Releasing the correspondence I sent during the investigation is the
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written record that provides the clearest account of those interactions.
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From the beginning, I told Nolan's family that our goal
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was the same, to find out what happened to Nolan Wells.
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This is and has always been a search for the truth.
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No narrative, no agenda, no politics, nothing personal, just the truth.
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One of the most prevalent false narratives was that my
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office refused to cooperate and or obstructed a mutual examination
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with the crump team of Nolan's cell phone. This could
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not be further from the truth. You must first understand
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that the state of Mississippi had no legal avenue to
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seize and search Nolan's cell phone. Nolan's family received that
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phone in the very early morning hours of July 5th,
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and it continues to remain in their possession. Nolan's family
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and the Crump team have always been in complete control
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of Nolan's cell phone, including when, where, how, and if
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the phone would be examined by the state. During our
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July 15th, 2026 meeting, I accepted the Crump team's offer
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to participate in a mutual examination of Nolan's cell phone.
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I remained willing to do so and agreeable to any
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conditions the family wished to impose. Again, this truth about
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Nolan's phone was not shared with the public. When the
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extraction did not happen within a reasonable time, I reached
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out to get the ball rolling. We could not wait
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on the Crump team. I could not allow this investigation
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to be delayed, especially as tensions rose, false information exploded,
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and threats and harassment continued to escalate. Unbeknownst to me,
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the family was out of town at that time. Their
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attorneys reached out, and we subsequently set up a time
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and place for an extraction to occur. On the morning
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of the agreed upon extraction date, our law enforcement investigators
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were contacted by privately retained examiners with Garrett Discovery, Inc.,
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advising that the mutual phone extraction would not occur as
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they had begun a private extraction the evening prior and
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it was incomplete. I respected the family's decision for a
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private examination and requested that they share those results with
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my office. On August 28th, the Crump team advised that
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I would receive the extraction data by FedEx within 48
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hours and provided a 14-page preliminary report indicating the phone
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had not been accessed by anyone other than Nolan's family,
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and nothing had been deleted off of the phone since
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Nolan's last use. I never received the full extraction data
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as promised, and I never received a complete extraction report
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of Nolan's cell phone. After the grand jury convened in
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this case, the Crump team provided a 282-page selection of
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reports from Nolan's cell phone, which the grand jury considered.
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From the beginning, I advised the family that I would
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present the report of their independent medical examiner and welcomed
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his testimony before the grand jury. I again extended an
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invitation to the family's independent medical examiner to come to
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Mississippi to examine and review whatever he needed to Dr.
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Roger Mitchell accepted my invitation to come to Mississippi and
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examine Nolan's internal throat structures at the Mississippi Forensic Laboratory.
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Dr.
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Mitchell spent August 30th through September 1st in Mississippi. I
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allowed him to have full access to the complete investigative file.
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We took him to Horn Island, showing him various GPS
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locations relevant in this case. And of course, he met
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with our chief medical examiner, He physically examined Nolan's internal
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throat structures and he requested additional histological slides. Once the
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histological slides had been prepared, my office shipped them overnight
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for Dr. Mitchell's review. Dr. Mitchell subsequently testified before your
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grand jury in this matter. Another false narrative is that
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I kept the results of Nolan's autopsy and toxicology from
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his family. This is false. Shortly after I received the
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autopsy report, I reached out to Nolan's mother directly, and
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when she did not respond, I spoke with one of
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her Mississippi attorneys and shared Nolan's autopsy and toxicology results.
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My abiding by the law and not releasing the autopsy
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and toxicology results to the public in no way impeded
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Nolan's family or the Crump team from obtaining the results
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and a copy of the results pursuant to the law.
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Here again, another narrative allowed to flourish when my hands
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were tied in responding. The Crump team knew better, but
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allowed the public to believe, among other false narratives, that
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our medical examiner withheld Nolan's lungs and stomach when his
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body was released, that things had been deleted off of
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Nolan's phone before it was given back to his family,
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that I refused to cooperate with the examination of Nolan's
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cell phone, that I refused to provide Nolan's autopsy results
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to the family, all lies, and they knew it. Today,
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anyone with an internet connection can become an influencer, take
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fragments of information, construct a narrative without context or firsthand knowledge,
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and broadcast it to thousands or millions of people with
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little or no responsibility to the truth or consequences for
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what they do. Likes, shares, follows, subscriptions, and dollars have
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become more important than the truth. There was a time
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when having a public voice came with responsibility and having
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to earn your place on the platform. Journalists were expected
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to be knowledgeable about the subjects they covered, to investigate
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before they reported, to distinguish fact from speculation, and to
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pursue the truth without regard to narrative that might generate
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the most attention. What we have seen happen in Nolan's case,
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where lives and reputations have been damaged, is reprehensible. People
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have suffered. Public offices have been harassed. Witnesses, public officials,
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and others who are completely unrelated to this case have
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been subjected to threats of harm and intimidation by an
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angry mob. We do not have laws that adequately protect
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people from the conduct we've seen or punish those who
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engage in it. The right to speak your mind and
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give an opinion about any matter you desire is is
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not without responsibility, accountability, and consequences. I call on our
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federal and state legislators to pass constitutionally sound legislation to
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ensure that what we have seen in this case never
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happens again. As long as there are humans on the planet,
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there will be hate. That is not unique to Mississippi.
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It is unique to the human heart. We have seen
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that hate directed at our community. based on false narratives, lies, rumors,
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and wildly irresponsible speculation. The lies that were meant to
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destroy and divide our community have instead reminded us of
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who we really are and fortified the bonds that hold
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this community together. The Mississippi Gulf Coast is an incredibly
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special place. Jackson County is an incredibly special place. And
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in so many ways, Nolan, was a reflection of the
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incredible community he grew up in and the people who
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call it home.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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Look, y'all, I'm going to tell you quickly, I am
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working on a bad teacher's case right now involving two
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teachers who slept with the same student, did a lot
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of dirty deeds, all with the same student. This is
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going to be starting next week. I don't know how
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many episodes it's going to take. This may be a multi-parter.
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Holy smokes. You're not going to believe this one. And
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I got every single text ever sent back and forth
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between these two female teachers and this student and y'all.
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It makes me blush and I have read and seen
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it all. So, look forward to that. Check us out
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on Patreon, patreon.com slash exposedpodcastfiles for commercial-free early releases, bonus episodes,
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and more. And until next time, for Exposed Scandalous Files
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of the Elite, I'm your host, Jim Chapman. Much love.