#144 - How I was Wrongfully Convicted of Rape & Murder | Jeffrey Deskovic

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Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Jeffrey Deskovic was wrongfully convicted of the murder of a classmate at the age of 17 and spent half of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit. Jeffrey was finally exonerated 16 years later based on DNA evidence. https://www.deskovicfoundation.org JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon Danny https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're ready to go.
0:09.3	Thanks for doing this, man.
0:10.8	I appreciate you coming down.
0:11.8	Absolutely.
0:12.4	Thanks for bringing me down here.
0:13.5	I'm excited, man.
0:14.3	Obviously, you're wildly successful.
0:15.8	You fly me in for this.
0:17.4	You're a pal, man.
0:18.4	Thanks for coming.
0:19.3	I really appreciate it.
0:20.1	You got it.
0:20.6	Your story is fascinating, and I think it's incomprehensible to people to understand what you
0:28.1	went through at such a young age, at the age of 16.
0:32.6	For people who don't know, why don't you just give me a brief background on what happened
0:37.2	to you when you were
0:37.8	16? I was arrested at the age of 16 for a murder and rape that I did not commit, and ultimately I
0:43.8	was wrongfully convicted of that. So my wrongful conviction, which happened at the age of 17, was
0:49.3	caused by coerced false confession, prosecutorial misconduct, fraud by the medical examiner, terrible
0:54.9	public defender.
0:56.2	I lost even though the DNA didn't match me.
0:58.4	I was given a 15 to life sentence because I had been charged as an adult.
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