#012 Jason Flom with Peter Pringle

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Peter Pringle was wrongfully convicted of an armed robbery and the murder of two police officers during a bank raid in Ireland in 1980. He was the last person sentenced to death in Ireland, and just days before a noose was to be tied around his neck, Peter learned that Ireland’s president had commuted his sentence to 40 years without parole. Peter then immersed himself in legal texts and effectively became a jailhouse lawyer. He discovered that the confession used by the prosecution was written down in a police officer’s notebook prior to his interrogation about the killings. Serving as his own counsel, he eventually convinced the Court of Criminal Appeal to quash his conviction in 1995. Today, Peter is a human rights and anti-death penalty activist and together he and his wife, Sunny Jacobs, also a death row exoneree, run the Sunny Center in Ireland where they provide counseling to other exonerees.

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0:00.0	We're the police.
0:01.0	Banging on the door.
0:02.6	Open up.
0:04.2	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
0:21.8	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	I was able to look at my picture in the database and say that I was somewhere where I definitely
0:32.6	wasn't.
0:34.6	I overheard three of the jailers discussing my 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.
0:45.5	I walked back inside that prison for the last time.
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