#229 Jason Flom with Ronald Jacobsen

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On January 6th, 1990, a 21 year old woman was working at a convenience store in Covington, Georgia. At around 4am, this woman, who we'll refer to as "BT," was abducted, forced into a truck, and sexually assaulted until she managed to escape 90 minutes later. Despite BT’s insistence that she hadn’t known the perpetrator, police ultimately persuaded her to believe a story that her ex-boyfriend Ronald Jacobsen was her attacker. There was no physical or forensic evidence pointing to Ron who was out of the state at the time with his pregnant fiancee and her family. Nevertheless, Ronald was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. In 2017, the Innocence Project used DNA evidence to exclude him from the possible list of assailants, and it took until 2021 for the state to finally acknowledge it. Learn more and get involved at: https://www.mightycause.com/story/Ronaldjacobsen https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/dl/ls/1WXCLBD8D0HF8 https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.

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0:00.0	On January 6, 1990, a 21-year-old woman who will refer to his BT was working at a convenience
0:08.2	store in Covington, Georgia when around 4 a.m. she was abducted, forced into a truck,
0:13.4	and repeatedly sexually assaulted until she finally escaped 90 minutes later.
0:18.6	At the time of the assault, her ex-boyfriend Ron Jacobson was 150 miles away in Chattanooga,
0:24.2	Tennessee, with his pregnant fiance and her mother.
0:28.0	Over the course of several detailed statements, BT maintained that she did not know her attacker,
0:33.2	and that at one point during the abduction, she thought of fleeing to the home of her friend
0:37.0	Ron Jacobson when they were close by.
0:40.1	Despite these statements, and the lack of any physical or forensic evidence in co-paving
0:44.5	Ron, police ultimately persuaded BT that she had just repressed the memory of her friend
0:50.5	Ron being her actual attacker.
0:53.4	That trial, Ron's defense, failed to bring up the inconsistencies between BT's many earlier
0:59.3	statements to police and the story of Ron being the perpetrator.
1:03.5	And with DNA testing only in its infancy, Ron was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
1:10.1	In 2003, Georgia enacted a law that allowed for post-conviction DNA testing, but the rapeshealed
1:15.4	law, a law that is meant to protect rapes survivors from irrelevant character assassinations,
1:20.1	was first used to bar the DNA testing in his case, and then the introduction of the results
1:25.3	when they clearly excluded Ron as BT's attacker.
1:28.8	Finally, in 2021, the newly elected district attorney took one look at Ron's case and dismissed
1:35.7	all charges.
1:37.7	This is Ron for Conviction.
2:06.1	Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist.
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