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Wrongful Conviction
Hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, Pulitzer prize-winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng, and Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and podcast host Lauren Bright Pacheco, Wrongful Conviction features intimate conversations with men and women who have spent years in prison for crimes they maintain they did not commit. Some have been fully exonerated and reunited with family and friends while others…
Episodes
Wrongful Conviction#185 Jason Flom with Pablo Fernandez
On June 10th, 1993, Henry Gomez was wounded, and Manny Quintero was killed in a drive-by shooting in Harlem. Alleged ex coke dealer turned NYPD cop AJ Melino…
Wrongful Conviction#184 Jason Flom with Larry DeLisle
After a hot summer day - August 3rd, 1989, the DeLisle’s took their 4 children for ice cream along the Detroit River. A mechanical defect in their car…
Wrongful Conviction#183 Jason Flom with Kiera Newsome
On the day after Easter 2001 in South Central, LA, a female 11 Deuce Hoover fired into a group of Blocc Crips, wounding one and killing another. Even though…
Wrongful Conviction#182 Jason Flom with Felipe Rodriguez
It was Thanksgiving Eve when Maureen Fernandez went to a few of her usual bars with an unknown man in a black Monte Carlo. The next morning, her body was…
Wrongful Conviction#181 Jason Flom with Danny Rincon
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, the Sepulveda’s Red Top crew ran the crack game in the South Bronx. When the Yellow Top crew tried to open…
Wrongful Conviction#180 Jason Flom with Marty Tankleff
This is an updated episode that originally aired on November 7, 2016. On September 7th, 1988, Marty Tankleff awoke for his 1st day of his senior year of high…
Wrongful Conviction#179 Jason Flom with Rob Will
At sunrise on December 4th, 2000, sheriff’s deputies rolled up on Rob Will and Michael Allen Rosario as they stripped hubcaps in North Houston. One of…
Wrongful Conviction#178 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Pt. 2
No body, no bones, no motive. Just a decades long nightmare that has not ended. For the final episode of Season 2 Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us back…
Wrongful Conviction#177 Jason Flom with Justin Moore and Crystal Trevino on Zephi Trevino
In the spring of 2019, Zephi was a high school sophomore troubled by a bad break up, when an older guy, Philip Baldenegro, swooped in through social media and…
Wrongful Conviction#176 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Pt. 1
He thought the police would recognize this was just a dream, not reality. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us a story from Ada, Oklahoma where a young…
Wrongful Conviction#175 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Ray McCann
These police were willing to sacrifice one of their own just to close a case. Laura and Steve tell us the story of a Michigan murder case with an unusual…
Wrongful Conviction#174 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Eric Weakley and Michael Hash
Michael was serving a life sentence until one person came to his rescue: his mom. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us to Culpeper County, Virginia, to tell…
Wrongful Conviction#173 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Ricky Davis
One woman was forced to talk. The other was forced to listen. Both were powerless. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about a California man named Ricky…
Wrongful Conviction#172 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Shaken Baby Syndrome
In the final episode of the season, Josh Dubin explores Shaken Baby Syndrome with Kate Judson, Executive Director for the Center for Integrity in Forensic…
Wrongful Conviction#171 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Walter Ogrod
To win exoneration, it wasn’t enough for the DA to declare innocence. The judge had to agree, or Walter wasn’t going anywhere. Laura Nirider and…
Wrongful Conviction#170 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony
Josh Dubin discusses Eyewitness Testimony with renowned psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies human…
Wrongful Conviction#169 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Emerson Stevens
Sometimes when detectives can't get a confession they'll settle for a something else Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin explore the story of Emerson Stevens, a…
Wrongful Conviction#168 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - The Birmingham Six
The thing about torture is that it works, at least if your only goal is to find a scapegoat. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Birmingham, England. In…
Wrongful Conviction#167 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Roadside Drug Test Evidence
Josh Dubin examines Roadside Drug Testing with Greg Glod, Criminal Justice Senior Policy Fellow. Faulty tests, which cost police departments $2 a piece or…
Wrongful Conviction#166 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - The Midnight Crew
In Chicago, old habits die hard. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside one of the worst police abuse scandals in U.S. history. For decades on the…
Wrongful Conviction#165 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Coerced Confession Evidence
Josh Dubin does a deep dive into the psychology behind Coerced Confession Evidence with David Rudolf, criminal defense and civil rights attorney, and co-host…
Wrongful Conviction#164 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tyra Patterson
The prisons are filled with people convicted of murder who never killed anyone. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Dayton, Ohio where a young…
Wrongful Conviction#163 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Tool Mark Analysis
Josh Dubin talks about Tool Mark Analysis with Tim Requarth, a freelance journalist who often writes about the intersection between science and criminal…
Wrongful Conviction#162 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside a decades-long fight for the truth. The story of Henry…
Wrongful Conviction#161 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Gunshot Residue Evidence
Josh Dubin explores Gunshot Residue Evidence with Joanna Sanchez from the Wrongful Conviction Project at the Office of the Ohio Public Defender. Of all the…
Wrongful Conviction#160 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Norfolk 4
Four honorable men volunteered to fight for their country, but ended up fighting for their own freedom. Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin, co-directors at…
Wrongful Conviction#159 Jason Flom with Keyontay Ricks
After being wrongfully convicted for the first time as a child and paroled from juvie, Keyontay Ricks got involved with mentoring at risk kids, including a 14…
Wrongful Conviction#158 Jason Flom with Sabrina Butler
Approaching midnight on April 11th, 1989, 18 year old single mother Sabrina Butler found her 9 month old, Walter, not breathing. A genetic kidney disorder sent…
Wrongful Conviction#157 Jason Flom with Kevin Dykes
In June 1986, Kevin Dykes witnessed the attempted murder of 2 people and the actual murder of a 3rd person in his neighborhood in Compton, CA. Kevin decided to…
Wrongful Conviction#156 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Fingerprint Evidence
Josh Dubin discusses Fingerprint Evidence with Mary Moriarty, Chief Public Defender of Hennepin County in Minnesota Contrary to what pop culture has ingrained…
Wrongful Conviction#155 Jason Flom with Marilyn Mulero
On May 2nd, 1992, Marilyn Mulero was out with a friend and someone whom they had just met, Jackie Montanez, mourning the death of another friend at the hands…
Wrongful Conviction#154 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Footwear Comparison Evidence
Josh Dubin speaks with Bill Osinski, journalist and author of “Guilty By Popular Demand.” Even when done correctly, impression analysis of…
Wrongful Conviction#153 Jason Flom with Willie "Pete" Williams
In the spring of 1985, a rapist with a very specific M.O. was on the loose along a stretch of Roswell Road between the city of Atlanta and Fulton County…
Wrongful Conviction#152 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Hair Microscopy Evidence
Josh Dubin speaks with Vanessa Antoun, Senior Resource Counsel at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) to learn about Hair Microscopy…
Wrongful Conviction#151 Jason Flom with Kristine Bunch
In the early morning hours of June 30th, 1995, 21 year old mother Kristine Bunch awoke in a carbon monoxide haze to the decimation of her entire world - only…
Wrongful Conviction#150 Jason Flom with Randal Padgett
At the tail end of the 1980’s, Randal Padgett was living an idyllic rural life of farm and family, when admittedly he made his biggest mistake that began…
Wrongful Conviction#149 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Arson Evidence
Josh Dubin sits down with Barry Scheck, Co-Founder of the Innocence Project to discuss Arson Evidence. Built on a foundation of conjecture and best guesses…
Wrongful Conviction#148 Jason Flom with James Davis
On January 24th, 2004, a party at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple devolved into violence, resulting in one man’s death. Before the violence erupted, an…
Wrongful Conviction#147 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Bloodstain Pattern Evidence
Josh Dubin, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and Innocence Ambassador to the Innocence Project in New York explores bloodstain pattern evidence with…
Wrongful Conviction#146 Jason Flom with Jamal Trulove
In the summer of 2007, Jamal Trulove was an aspiring rapper from San Francisco’s Sunnydale projects. He had hoped that scoring himself a role on a…
Wrongful Conviction#145 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Bite Mark Evidence
Introducing Josh Dubin, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and Innocence Ambassador to the Innocence Project in New York. On the debut episode of…
Wrongful Conviction#144 Jason Flom with Ronnie Long
On the night of April 25th, 1976, a wealthy, 54 year old widow was burglarized and raped in Concord, North Carolina. What happened next paints a stark picture…
Wrongful Conviction#143 Jason Flom with Terrance Lewis
In 1996, Hulon Howard was allowing competing crack dealers to operate out of the front porch and basement of his home in West Philadelphia. He and his…
Wrongful Conviction#142 Jason Flom with Josh Dubin on James Dailey
On May 5th, 1985, a group of friends were bar hopping around Clearwater, Florida, when they ran into their drug dealer’s 14 year old daughter, Shelly…
Wrongful Conviction#141 Jason Flom with Pierre Rushing
On April 15th, 2011, an Oakland, CA drug dealer lost his iPod, and an addict lost his life. 5 weeks later, the questionable word of another addict derailed the…
Wrongful Conviction#140 Jason Flom and Michael Rubin with Meek Mill
This is an updated episode that originally aired on August 13, 2018. Since his release in April 2018 and the ultimate end to his legal troubles in August 2019…
Wrongful Conviction#139 Jason Flom with Terrel Barros
Terrel Barros and his friends thought they were just going out clubbing until a tragic encounter changed all that. Then, authorities compounded that tragedy by…
Wrongful Conviction#138 Jason Flom with Tim Howard
Tim Howard and Brian Day were best friends with drug habits to match. Brian did some deals to support his habit, ending up in debt to some nasty characters…
Wrongful Conviction#137 Jason Flom on Power to the People: A forum on the fight for civil rights and justice in our time
On Thursday June 11, 2020, justice advocate and philanthropist Jason Flom moderated a forum on Facebook Live with four extraordinary leaders in civil rights…
Wrongful Conviction#136 Jason Flom with Steven Carrington
After a short stint in prison, Steven Carrington was a newlywed father, training to be an EMT and getting his life back on track. But when the police came…
Wrongful Conviction#135 Jason Flom with Lamonte McIntyre
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 25, 2017. On the afternoon of April 15th, 1994, two men were sitting in a powder-blue Cadillac in…
Wrongful Conviction#134 Jason Flom with Damon Thibodeaux
In July of 1996, Damon Thibodeaux was visiting family, when his 14 year-old step cousin, Crystal, walked to the grocery store and never came back. When…
Wrongful Conviction#133 Jason Flom and Kim Kardashian on Julius Jones
In the fall of 1998, Julius Jones had the whole world ahead of him. He was a freshman who planned to study engineering and was attending the University of…
Wrongful Conviction#132 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Peter Reilly
Why do we tell these stories? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us the last story of season one. It’s about Peter Reilly, one of the first modern-day…
Wrongful Conviction#131 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - David McCallum
Am I telling the story the way the story needs to be told? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us the story of David McCallum, one of two New York teens…
Wrongful Conviction#130 Jason Flom with Dr. Yusef Salaam in Times of COVID
Conflicting survival instincts and an internet full of misinformation has left many of us in disagreement over what is the best path forward. Once again, Jason…
Wrongful Conviction#129 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Chris Tapp
How could a layperson see all the problems with this interrogation when the police couldn’t? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about Chris Tapp…
Wrongful Conviction#128 Jason Flom with Nick Yarris in Times of COVID
Social distancing orders have had us on lockdown for well over a month, leaving many of us struggling with not only isolation and restricted movement, but also…
Wrongful Conviction#127 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Huwe Burton
What could make someone confess to the murder of their own mother? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to The Bronx in 1989. Huwe Burton was sixteen years…
Wrongful Conviction#126 Jason Flom with Amanda Knox in Times of COVID
As we move into our 2nd month since COVID 19 was declared a global pandemic, many of us have been isolating for just as long, if not longer. Jason Flom has…