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Wrongful Conviction

#183 Jason Flom with Kiera Newsome

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On the day after Easter 2001 in South Central, LA, a female 11 Deuce Hoover fired into a group of Blocc Crips, wounding one and killing another. Even though Kiera Newsome was in class at the time and avoided gangs entirely, the unending Crip-Hoover rivalry took both her boyfriend’s life and eventually 19 years of her own. Learn more and get involved at: http://chng.it/BqJKvbZs https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.

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South Central Los Angeles was plagued by gang violence and in Kiera Newsom's neighborhood,

0:07.0

the Black Crips and the 11-Duce Hovers ran the streets. Kiera avoided the gang life,

0:12.2

but it still took the life of her boyfriend, Marquel Norman, on December 10, 2000. On April

0:18.5

16, 2001, in retaliation for another gang shooting, three female Hovers rolled up to some

0:25.1

Black Crips and one of the women got out and shot into the crowd, mortally wounding

0:30.2

Kristian Hinton. She got back into the car and shot again as she sped away, grazing the

0:36.0

torso of Shantay Allen. The shooter was described as African American in her 20s with a lazy

0:42.7

eye and a tattoo on her upper right thigh. This incident happened at 11.30 a.m. on a school

0:48.8

day, 10 miles from where Kiera Newsom was in class. But despite this rock solid alibi and

0:55.6

the fact that she didn't have a car or even a driver's license, the prosecution came

1:00.6

up with a theory that Kiera, in retaliation for her boyfriend's murder, had somehow snuck

1:06.6

out of her lockdown school, changed her clothes, died her hair, drove over 30 minutes to the

1:12.1

scene, committed the crime and somehow managed to return to her desk just seven feet from

1:17.6

her teacher with her absence going completely unnoticed. But with coerced eyewitnesses

1:23.7

and the fact that she happened to have a tattoo on her upper right thigh, Kiera ended

1:28.2

up serving nearly 20 years tormented by her co-defendant Donnell Flynn, aka Astro, who

1:35.1

is believed to have been the actual shooter. This is wrongful conviction with Jason Flam.

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