#133 Jason Flom and Kim Kardashian on Julius Jones
Wrongful Conviction
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🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In the fall of 1998, Julius Jones had the whole world ahead of him. He was a freshman who planned to study engineering and was attending the University of Oklahoma on an academic scholarship. The following summer, just three days after his 19th birthday, Julius was awakened and dragged out of bed, barefoot and shirtless, and taken into police custody as a murder suspect. In 2002, he was convicted of killing a prominent local businessman – this after eyewitness testimony that should have excluded the young man as a suspect, as well as overt racial bias both in the news media and in the jury box.
Julius Jones is facing execution as early as the fall of 2020.
Special guests Kim Kardashian West along with Julius’ current attorney, Dale Baich and his mother and sister, Madeline and Antoinette Jones, join Jason Flom to discuss Julius’ case and the race for the State of Oklahoma to grant him clemency before it’s too late.
Learn more and get involved at: https://www.justiceforjuliusjones.com/
https://www.change.org/p/julius-jones-is-innocent-don-t-let-him-be-executed-by-the-state-of-oklahoma
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom
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| 0:00.0 | On July 28, 1999, an Edmund Oklahoma business owner, Paul Howell, was returning to his |
| 0:07.7 | parents' home with his sister and two daughters after shopping for school supplies. |
| 0:12.2 | Upon exiting the vehicle, he was shot twice and killed for his GMC suburban. |
| 0:17.1 | Paul's sister would describe his shooter as an African-American male wearing a red band |
| 0:21.2 | down across his face and a stocking cap with up to an inch of hair sticking out from |
| 0:25.9 | the bottom. |
| 0:27.3 | Investigators would tap confidential informants in the stolen car trade that would deflect |
| 0:32.6 | from themselves and point police in the direction of Chris Jordan and Julius Jones. |
| 0:38.5 | Chris Jordan would go on to give a confession that was riddled with inconsistencies, blaming |
| 0:43.8 | Julius Jones for the murder. |
| 0:45.7 | But on the night of July 28, Julius was at home with his family. |
| 0:50.6 | The following night, July 29, Chris Jordan slept at the Jones' home and that's when |
| 0:56.4 | he planted the murder weapon in a second-story cross-base, something he admitted both to |
| 1:01.3 | the police and to two jailhouse informants. |
| 1:05.0 | On July 30, police would find the gun exactly where Chris Jordan had told them to look and |
| 1:10.6 | emerge with it wrapped in a red bandana. |
| 1:14.2 | Julius's defense at trial failed to present any evidence, including a photo taken by police |
| 1:19.9 | after a traffic stop just 10 days earlier that would have ruled him out as a potential match |
| 1:24.9 | to the only eyewitnesses description. |
| 1:27.6 | Chris Jordan, on the other hand, received leniency for testifying against Julius and he's |
| 1:31.9 | been out of prison since 2014. |
| 1:35.2 | Julius, meanwhile, remains on death row for a crime for which Chris Jordan has bragged about |
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