#072 Jason Flom with Noura Jackson - RE-RELEASE

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Noura Jackson was egregiously framed and wrongfully convicted of murdering her mother, Jennifer Jackson, in Memphis, TN in 2005. Amazingly, she spent over three years in jail awaiting trial before being sentenced to 20 years and nine months in prison. No physical evidence linked Noura to the murder, and DNA testing not only excluded her as a suspect, but it also suggested that two or three different people were present at the crime scene. The Supreme Court of Tennessee overturned her conviction unanimously in 2014, and in their 5-0 decision, they made strong statements about the misconduct that took place during her trial. The prosecutors threatened to retry Noura, and she was faced with little choice but to accept an Alford Plea in 2015. Noura Jackson was then sent back to prison for 15 months before she was finally released in 2016, after serving 11 years in prison. She is joined by one of her lawyers, Bryce Benjet, Senior Staff Attorney at the Innocence Project, in this episode.

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0:00.0	Nora Jackson is an extraordinary person who has been through an ordeal that you
0:10.8	wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. As you know, for listening to her episode that
0:14.3	originally aired in November of 2017, Nora was wrongfully convicted of the murder
0:20.5	for mother. Both of her parents were murdered and she was left an orphan with no
0:25.9	brothers and sisters. When she was wrongfully convicted and ended up serving
0:30.0	11 years in prison, of course, the Tennessee Supreme Court unanimously overturned
0:34.2	her conviction and set in their ruling that the prosecutors had lied and cheated
0:38.7	and broken so many rules. There were too many to count. Too many examples of
0:44.1	prosecutorial misconduct too great into in one recording. Nora, the good news is,
0:50.4	since the episode aired, she's moved from Tennessee to New York. She now lives in
0:55.4	Brooklyn and she is a sophomore in college. The age of 32, her freshman year, she
1:03.0	achieved a 3.67 GPA. I know she's going to improve on it this year. She started
1:09.3	an organization called Meet Your Mentor and she is working with some other
1:13.9	incredible dynamic women, Sarah Rappold, Stacey Ryan and others and Meet Your Mentor
1:22.4	is an organization that is dedicated to helping exonerees, formally incarcerated
1:27.4	people get back on their feet and get a fresh start. Nora is a hero of mine and
1:32.9	I'm super proud of everything she's doing.
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