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Wrongful Conviction

#215 Jason Flom with Greg Glod on John Jones

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

At about 9:40AM on March 19th, 2010, John Jones woke to find his daughter Jada unresponsive and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to the hospital where she remained until July 16th, 2010, when she was removed from life support and passed away. Based on the junk science of shaken baby syndrome, John was convicted of murdering his daughter and sentenced to 15 years to life. Greg Glod, Criminal Justice Fellow at Americans for Prosperity, returns to our podcast to co-host with Jason Flom and share this tragic example of our legal system gone awry. For more on the junk science of Shaken Baby Syndrome, check out Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Shaken Baby Syndrome with host Josh Dubin, released on November 18th, 2020. https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/podcast/s12e14-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-shaken-baby-syndrome Learn more and get involved at: https://www.ohioinnocenceproject.org https://cifsjustice.org/ 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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0:00.0

John Jones and Dacia Ruiz had three children while working on their high school diplomas.

0:07.2

After celebrating Dacia's mother's birthday on March 18, 2010, the young family laid down

0:12.7

to sleep. Despite the expected waking and beating that comes with six-month-old twins,

0:18.9

the night was ordinary. When Dacia left for school at 8 a.m., John propped some bottles

0:24.0

on a blanket near twins' Jada and Jasmine and went back to sleep.

0:28.3

Then, when John woke again at 9.40 a.m., turned on cartoons for his son and went to attend

0:34.1

to the twins, Jada was unresponsive. In a panic, he called, family, and 911.

0:40.6

The dispatcher coached him through CPR until first responders arrived and took over. He

0:45.5

did everything his concern father would do, but when testing was done at the hospital,

0:50.5

doctors found what they mistakenly thought was conclusive evidence of lethal child abuse.

0:56.7

However, over the next decade, the science that they used to support John's conviction

1:02.0

has crumbled under the weight of reality. Had a jury heard all the other now logical explanations

1:08.6

for the symptoms present in little Jada's body, John Jones never would have served a day

1:14.3

of his 15-to-life prison sentence. This is wrongful conviction with Jason Flom.

1:20.5

Hola, ¿Qué tal, mi gente? It's Chiquis from Chiquis and Chill podcast. Welcome to the show.

1:30.1

I talk about anything and everything. I did have a miscarriage when I was 19 years old.

1:35.1

And that's why I'm a firm believer at an advocate of therapy and counseling.

1:40.0

The person that you saw on stage, the person that you saw on interviews,

1:43.7

that was my mother off stage. Every Monday on my podcast, Chiquis and Chill, available on the I Heart

1:50.8

Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. People who don't know Bruce have

1:58.1

to understand two things. One is he's built like something Michelangelo's carved out of a piece of

2:03.8

marble. True, this is true. And number two, he's the first person to show you that at every party at

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