#148 Jason Flom with James Davis
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On January 24th, 2004, a party at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple devolved into violence, resulting in one man’s death. Before the violence erupted, an overserved young man left the party into the care of his new girlfriend - only to become the murder suspect on the word of his jilted ex.
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| 0:00.0 | On January 24th, 2004, James J. Davis went to a big party at the Proclin Masonic Temple |
| 0:07.6 | to celebrate his little brother Daniel's birthday. |
| 0:10.3 | James' night was cut short when he drank too much and vomited several times. |
| 0:14.7 | Daniel put him in a cab to meet with his girlfriend, Kenine Johnson. |
| 0:19.0 | Two hours later, a big fight broke out in the club, resulting in their friend Jamel Black |
| 0:24.0 | being stabbed and another man Blake Harper being shot and killed. |
| 0:28.4 | Police would interview people at the scene to get a description of the shooter, a light-skinned |
| 0:33.0 | black man with braids. |
| 0:35.0 | But James didn't have braids at the time, he had short hair with waves. |
| 0:39.8 | Police then called stabbing victim Jamel Black's home and spoke to his sister, who happened |
| 0:45.0 | to be James's spurned ex-teen of Black, who casually named James as the shooter even |
| 0:50.1 | though she had never even been at the party in the first place. |
| 0:54.1 | James found Jamel at the hospital, who told them the identity of the real shooter, Tay |
| 0:59.3 | Hall. |
| 1:00.3 | So was it Tay or Jay? |
| 1:03.8 | Two weeks later, Jose Machico Te, who was at the club that night would enter the precinct |
| 1:08.3 | and second-teen of Black's identification. |
| 1:11.3 | About six weeks after that, James found himself the target of an interrogation, a sham line-up, |
| 1:17.5 | and a murder charge. |
| 1:19.3 | Only after his case was picked up by the Legal Aid Society, was it revealed that Jose |
| 1:23.6 | Machico Te was actually one of the most dangerous- |
| 1:26.1 | Things Are Getting Spooky in I Heartland on Roblox |
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