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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.