#029 Jason Flom with Jerry Miller
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In 1981, a woman was brutally beaten, raped, robbed, and forced into the trunk of her car on the roof of a parking garage in Chicago. Two employees recognized her car as it was leaving the garage and attempted to stop the assailant from driving away, but the perpetrator escaped on foot, leaving the victim locked in the trunk. Based only on a composite drawing and description of the assailant, both of which were created based on the memory of the parking garage employees, a Chicago Police Department officer accused Jerry Miller of the crime, claiming that he had seen Jerry looking in a parked car’s window some days prior. The two garage employees both identified Jerry in a lineup, but the victim said that she couldn’t positively identify her assailant because he had threatened to kill her if she didn’t keep her eyes closed. Jerry and his father both testified that they were watching a pay-per-view boxing match at the time of the crime, but despite his alibi and the total lack of physical evidence connecting him to the crime, in 1982 Jerry Miller was convicted of rape, kidnapping, and robbery. It wasn’t until 2005, when the Innocence Project took on Jerry’s case, that the victim’s clothes were subjected to DNA testing, yielding a profile that excluded him. In 2007, Jerry Miller was exonerated, having spent 25 years in prison for a rape that he didn’t commit. He is joined by Maurice Possley, Senior Researcher at the National Registry of Exonerations and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and *New York Times *bestselling author who has written about, investigated and consulted on issues involving criminal justice for more than 30 years.
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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 lost along the way and forget what their job really is. |
| 0:12.0 | He just kept on trying to remind me that who was in authority, who was in control, and how easy it was for my body to be found in any alley of New York City. |
| 0:26.0 | It's a tough prison when you have the guards going against you because they are the biggest gang in the prison. |
| 0:32.0 | They do that. They'll give a guy a life sentence and go home and eat spaghetti like it was nothing. |
| 0:38.0 | And anybody that would say, well why would you confess to something that you didn't do? My question to them will be why wouldn't you confess when somebody's threatening to kill your life? |
| 0:49.0 | The judge, he said, how you feel? I said, I'm okay. He said, with the dead, you're lucky, then. You go home. |
| 0:56.0 | This is wrongful conviction. |
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