#024 Jason Flom with Antoine Day

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On September 1, 1990, Thomas Peters and James Coleman were shot while shooting craps outside a liquor store on the west side of Chicago, IL at about 1:30 am. The men were taken to a hospital, where Peters died and Coleman was treated and released for a gunshot wound in the back. Day and a codefendant were arrested eight days later after a nephew of Peters and witness to the crime, told police they were the shooters. Despite several other witnesses willing to attest to Day’s innocence, both he and his codefendant were found guilty and sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 60 years for murder and 25 years for attempted murder. In this episode, Antoine Day is joined by Laura Caldwell, a former civil trial attorney who is now the director of Life After Innocence.

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0:00.0	I think we have the best legal system. It's just the people that implement it. They get
0:08.5	lost along the way and forget what their job really is.
0:13.2	He just kept on trying to remind me that who was in authority, who was in control, and
0:18.1	how easy it was for my body to be found in any alley of New York City.
0:25.9	It's a tough prison when you have the guards going against you because they are the biggest
0:30.9	gang in the prison. They do that. They'll give a guy a life sentence and go home and
0:36.1	espagetti like it was nothing. And anybody that would say, well why would you confess
0:41.0	to something that you didn't do? My question to them will be why wouldn't you confess
0:45.5	when somebody's threatening to kill your life?
0:48.8	The judge said, how you feel? I said, I'm okay. He said, well the day is your lucky day.
0:54.6	Go home. This is wrongful conviction.
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