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Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit – some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.
Episodes
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsS12 Ep103: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Alexander McLean on providing greater access to justice and the rule of law throughout Africa and beyond
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 4. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsS12 Ep102: Jason Flom with Thomas Haynesworth
In just the first month of 1984, five women from the ages of 18 to 20 were sexually assaulted in East Richmond, Virginia. One victim saw an 18 year old named…
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S12 Ep101: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Kris Brown - Preview
Kris Brown, President of Brady United chats with Jason about the impact of gun violence, the NRA and the legacy of Jim and Sarah Brady. To learn more and get…
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S12 Ep100: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: John Fetterman, Lt. Governor of PA, on criminal legal system reform
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 4. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom…
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S12 Ep99: Jason Flom with Amanda Brumfield
Amanda Brumfield, the estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton, was blamed for the death of her best friend’s daughter. On October 3, 2008, 1 year old…
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S12 Ep98: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Alex Duran - Preview
Alex Duran joins Jason to share with us his transformation from inmate to criminal legal system reformer. He now manages a $20 million annual fund on behalf of…
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S12 Ep97: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Static on guiding at risk youth
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 3. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom…
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S12 Ep96: Jason Flom with Tyrone Noling
On April 5th, 1990, Bernhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, were shot to death in their Atwater, OH home with a .25 caliber gun. Miles away, 18-year-old Tyrone…
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S12 Ep95: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: DeRay McKesson - Preview
DeRay McKesson joins Jason to talk about his journey from school administrator to activist. His work with Campaign Zero is bringing real reforms to police…
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S12 Ep94: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Ashley Judd on the importance of empowering women and girls
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 2. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom…
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S12 Ep93: Jason Flom with Mark Denny
On December 20, 1987, at about 2 am, two masked men forced their way into a Burger King in Brooklyn, New York, as employees were closing. A third man entered…
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S12 Ep92: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Alexander McLean - Preview
Alexander McLean joins Jason to talk about his work with Justice Defenders. Justice Defenders is a non-profit that works to provide prisoners and prison…
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S12 Ep91: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Sir Richard Branson and Celia Ouellette on abolishing the death penalty
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 1. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom…
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S12 Ep90: Jason Flom with Dennis and Lee Horton
Brothers, Dennis and Lee Horton, were having a pleasant Memorial Day in 1993 until they decided to visit their father in North Philadelphia and ran into a…
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S12 Ep89: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: John Fetterman, Lt. Governor of PA, on criminal justice reform
John Fetterman, Lt. Governor of PA, joins Jason to talk about using compassion, mercy, and second chances to reform our criminal justice system. To learn more…
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S12 Ep88: Jason Flom with Vincent Simmons
In early May of 1977, Keith Laborde and his 14 year old twin cousins, Karen and Sharon Sanders, allegedly picked up a hitchhiking black man at a gas station in…
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S12 Ep87: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Static - Preview
Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Static join Jason to talk about their work with Road Recovery, an entertainment industry-driven non-profit organization dedicated to…
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S12 Ep86: Jason Flom with Ray Krone
On the morning of December 29th, 1991, the body of a 36 year old woman was found nude in the men’s restroom of the bar where she worked in Phoenix, Arizona…
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S12 Ep85: Jason Flom with Ronald Jacobsen
On January 6th, 1990, a 21 year old woman was working at a convenience store in Covington, Georgia. At around 4am, this woman, who we'll refer to as "BT," was…
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S12 Ep84: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Sir Richard Branson and Celia Ouellette - Preview
Sir Richard Branson and Celia Ouellette join Jason to talk about their plans for the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice, abolishing the death penalty…
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S12 Ep83: Jason Flom with Carlton Roman
On March 16, 1989, Lloyd Witter and Jomo Kenyatta sustained several gunshot wounds at a residence in Jamaica, Queens. Witter died from his injuries. Paul…
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S12 Ep82: Wrongful Conviction - Keith Washington
On January 24th, 2007, Keith Washington, a police officer and former Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, was home with his wife and 6 year old daughter while…
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S12 Ep81: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom - Season 2 Trailer
Season 2 of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom launches Tuesday, October 26th. Please listen in as music executive, philanthropist, and activist Jason Flom…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsS12 Ep80: Wrongful Conviction - Atif Rafay
Atif Rafay was a thriving, brilliant, and happy student who had just finished his freshman year at Cornell University. On a weekend trip in July of 1994, while…
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S12 Ep79: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Brendan Dassey Re-Release
This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired on October 2, 2019. In 2006, 16 year old Wisconsin special education student Brendan Dassey gave a…
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S12 Ep78: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Eric Riddick
On November 6th, 1991, William Catlett was shot and killed on a street corner in West Philadelphia. Nearly all eyewitnesses identified a man named Edward…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsS12 Ep77: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Joe D’Ambrosio
19 year old Anthony Klann was stabbed to death in Cleveland, Ohio in September of 1988. Two men who had a lot to gain worked with detectives to spin a…
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S12 Ep76: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Jarrett Adams and Dimitri Henley
3 Chicago teenagers went to a party at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where embarrassment turned a consensual encounter into a far-fetched gang rape…
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S12 Ep75: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Anthony Sims
Anthony Sims is going into the 24th year of a 25 to life sentence based on a narrative constructed by his former friend Julius Graves. The only witness that…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsS12 Ep74: Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Emerson Stevens BREAKING NEWS
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…
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S12 Ep73: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Patrick Pursley UPDATED
In this live audience recording at ComplexCon Chicago 2019, Patrick Pursley tells us how a purposely false identification, a coerced and immediately recanted…
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S12 Ep72: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Julius Jones / Kim Kardashian UPDATED
On July 28th, 1999, Julius Jones was playing monopoly with his family and soon to be a sophomore on an academic scholarship at the University of Oklahoma. That…
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S12 Ep71: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Kevin Dykes - UPDATED
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 14, 2020. In June 1986, Kevin Dykes witnessed the attempted murder of 2 people and the actual…
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S12 Ep70: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - James King
James King has been sitting in prison for almost 25 years for a rape that he adamantly maintains he did not commit. His conviction strongly relied on the…
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S12 Ep69: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - John Jones
At about 9:40AM on March 19th, 2010, John Jones woke to find his daughter Jada unresponsive and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to the hospital where she remained…
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S12 Ep68: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Troy Coleman
On September 26th, 1989, Kevin Jones and a friend drove to an apartment with $40,000 cash to buy cocaine. Jones went inside, while the friend waited down the…
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S12 Ep67: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Joe Bryan
Joe Bryan was a high school principal, and his wife Mickey Bryan was a 4th-grade teacher in the small town of Clifton, TX. On Tuesday, October 15th, 1985…
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S12 Ep66: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Curtis Flowers
On July 16, 1996, the owner of Tardy Furniture Company and three employees were found shot and killed. Curtis Flowers, who previously worked at the store, was…
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S12 Ep65: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Marcus Wiggins
At age 13, Marcus Wiggins became one of many young black men to be tortured into a false statement by sadistic Chicago PD Detective Commander Jon Burge and his…
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S12 Ep64: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Richard Glossip
On January 7th, 1997, the owner of the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City was beaten to death with a baseball bat at his motel by admitted killer, thief, and…
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S12 Ep63: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Ronnie Long - UPDATED
Concord, NC police were so motivated to stick Ronnie Long with a rape charge - which carried a death sentence at the time - that the mountain of physical…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsWrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Cooperating)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs on how to safely…
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S12 Ep62: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Melissa Lucio
On February 17th, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to a residence where they found an unresponsive two-year-old child who subsequently died. Evidence of abuse…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsS12 Ep61: Righteous Convictions - San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin
Chesa Boudin was elected District Attorney of San Francisco in November 2019 on a progressive platform centered on ending mass incarceration, protecting crime…
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Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Immigration Status)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs on how to safely…
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S12 Ep60: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - James Davis - UPDATED
This is an updated episode from season 10. On January 24th, 2004, a party at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple devolved into violence, resulting in one man’s death…
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Righteous Convictions - Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph based in New Orleans, and a leading American advocate for the…
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Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (On a Jury - Deliberation)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs on how to safely…
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S12 Ep58: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Eddie Lee Howard
Eddie Lee Howard was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for the rape and murder of 82-year-old Georgia Kemp in Columbus, MS. The only physical evidence…
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S12 Ep57: Righteous Convictions - Investigative Journalist Jerry Mitchell
A film about the unsolved and ignored murders of 3 civil rights activists redirected the career of a mild, mannered reporter, leading to a life of…
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Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (On a Jury - Trial)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs on how to safely…
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S12 Ep56: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Dewey Bozella
Just one of a budding boxer’s big fights was with a prosecutor who was willing to ignore and hide overwhelming evidence - among other dirty tricks - to win…
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S12 Ep55: Righteous Convictions - Author, Poet, and Public Speaker Ian Manuel
A non-homicide crime at the age of 13 in the state of Florida sent Ian Manuel to a life prison sentence where he did 18 years in solitary confinement. His…
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Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Routine Traffic Stop)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs on how to safely…
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S12 Ep54: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Al Cleveland
A notorious informant father and son duo traded false information for $2k, wrongfully ensnaring 4 young men in the criminal legal system - one of whom was…
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S12 Ep53: Righteous Convictions - Financier and Philanthropist Mike Novogratz
One look at the usual dysfunction of our criminal legal system drew the attention and weight of this driven financier and philanthropist to engage and…
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Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Routine Foot Stop)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs on how to safely…
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S12 Ep52: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - NBA Center Enes Kanter
An NBA center speaks truth to power in his native Turkey, drawing the ire of the authoritarian regime who exacted their revenge on his father, Dr Mehmet…
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S12 Ep51: Righteous Convictions - Attorney and Activist Scott Hechinger
When a community bail fund proved to just stem the bleeding in a system of inequity, Scott Hechinger saw the necessity for a more coordinated information…
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S12 Ep50: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Gary Drinkard
A man is sent to death row by his half sister and her boyfriend in exchange for leniency from a crooked detective and an even worse prosecutor’s office. Learn…