#031 Jason Flom with Brian Ferguson

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Brian Ferguson was a 20-year-old college student in West Virginia when he was accused in 2002 of fatally shooting a fellow classmate. Brian was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole, and he remained in prison until a committed team of pro bono lawyers won his release and exoneration for the crime in 2013. After his release, Brian returned to Washington, D.C. and soon discovered a gap in services for people reentering society after incarceration. In response to these challenges, he developed Start Line, which he describes as a kind of Yelp for returning citizens. Brian Ferguson enrolled at Georgetown University after meeting government professor Marc Howard, who launched the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, which addresses pressing policy and moral issues surrounding prison reform and mass incarceration through programs and events. Professor Howard joins Brian in this episode.

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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
0:30.8	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
0:45.4	when somebody's threatening to kill your life?
0:48.8	The judge, he said, how you feel? I said, I'm okay. He said, well the day is your lucky
0:53.2	day. You go home. This is wrongful conviction.
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