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See Jake Tapper's father speak after prosecutors drop C.J. Rice's case

South Philadelphia man, C.J. Rice, was convicted of four counts of attempted murder in 2013. The case garnered national attention when CNN anchor Jake Tapper, a Philadelphia native, published an article in The Atlantic calling Rice’s initial defense “dangerously incompetent.” Tapper learned of the case from his father, Philadelphia doctor Theodore Tapper, who had treated Rice for gunshot wounds in the days before the shooting and said that Rice would have been physically unable to commit the crime due to his injuries. At a hearing on Monday, prosecutors told a judge they will not seek a new trial against Rice.
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