#011 Jason Flom with Sedrick Courtney

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sedrick Courtney was wrongfully convicted of robbery with a firearm and first-degree burglary in Tulsa, OK. On April 6, 1995, two armed men wearing ski masks broke into an apartment in Sedrick’s building complex and brutally beat a female victim, blindfolded her, and forced her to lie on the floor as they ransacked her home. The victim suffered traumatic brain injury because of the attack, but she positively identified Sedrick Courtney as one of the assailants, claiming she recognized his voice. The second assailant was never identified. Even though his sister and cousins corroborated his alibi, Sedrick was sentenced to 30 years and served 15 years before the Innocence Project was able to conduct DNA testing on hairs from the crime scene, proving that none of the hairs from the ski masks matched him. He was exonerated on July 19, 2012. In this episode, Sedrick Courtney appears with his wife, Tina, whom he met in prison when she was working as one of the guards.

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0:00.0	We're the police, banging on the door, opening up.
0:10.4	The choice to be in that lineup was the last choice I made as a free man.
0:14.0	A year later, I ended up writing the system.
0:18.2	I'm going to be one of those people who everyone in the world is going to think is a monster,
0:21.9	or suspect is a monster for the rest of my life, and I'm just going to have to come to
0:24.9	peace with that.
0:27.5	Somebody was able to look at my picture in the database and say that I was somewhere
0:31.8	where I definitely wasn't.
0:34.6	I overheard three of the jailers discussing what parts they might have to play in my hanging.
0:39.2	They had been told that two prison officers would have to participate in my execution.
0:44.5	I walked back inside that prison for the last time, man.
0:48.4	All hell broke loose, man.
0:53.2	This is wrongful conviction.
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