#044 Jason Flom with Ronald Simpson-Bey

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ronald Simpson-Bey was a jailhouse lawyer who got his conviction reversed for prosecutorial misconduct and subsequently won his freedom after serving 27 years in Michigan prison. In 1986, Ronald was convicted of assault with intent to murder and possession of a firearm and sentenced to 50 years in prison. While in prison he became familiar with the legal system and began assisting other inmates with their appeals as a jailhouse lawyer. Eventually, his work led to his own release twenty-seven years later. Since being freed, Ronald Simpson-Bey has worked tirelessly to advance prison reform efforts, most recently through JustLeadershipUSA, an organization with the ambitious goal to halve the nation’s correctional population by 2030. In this episode, he is joined by Glenn Martin, former President and Founder of JustLeadershipUSA.

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0:00.0	I fell into the hands of corrupt detective.
0:07.2	I was not even enough to believe that I would be able to just present all of my proof of
0:12.0	actual innocence that they would investigate adequately and so that I wouldn't be going
0:15.7	to prison because I was a good person, I hadn't anything wrong.
0:19.4	In the back of my, you say, well, when we go to a hearing, we go to court, the truth
0:24.0	will come out.
0:25.0	The prosecution from day one knew I was innocent and left forced testimony to go
0:29.6	uncorrected from the lower courts all the way up to United States Supreme Court.
0:36.2	You have someone with a badge with ultimate and really in that moment unchecked authority.
0:44.7	Don't presume that people are guilty when you see them on TV because it may just be
0:49.6	a dirty D.A. that is trying to rise upward.
0:55.8	This is wrongful conviction.
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