#027 Jason Flom with Jerome Morgan
Wrongful Conviction
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4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In 1993, Jerome Morgan was only 17 when he was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Clarence Landry III, who had been shot to death at a sweet 16 party at the Howard Johnson Hotel in New Orleans. Jerome was in the ballroom when the police arrived. Despite clear evidence that he could not have been the gunman, he was prosecuted based upon the coerced testimony of two teenage witnesses, one of whom had previously told the police it was definitely not Jerome Morgan. Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) investigated Jerome’s case for years, uncovering clear evidence in the police files that it was impossible for Jerome to have been the perpetrator. IPNO presented this evidence in court over a period of several years and got Jerome Morgan’s conviction thrown out because, as every judge agreed, the State should have turned over the exculpatory evidence to Jerome’s trial lawyer. Jerome Morgan was released from prison in 2014 and exonerated on May 27th, 2016. In this episode, he is joined by one of his attorneys at IPNO, Kristin Wenstrom.
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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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