#264 Maggie Freleng with Devonia Inman

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On September 19, 1998, Donna Brown was closing a Taco Bell in Adel, GA after her second day on the job. As she left, she was robbed and fatally shot. Two witnesses, one a jailhouse snitch and one a respondent to a $5000 reward, implicated Devonia Inman. Despite their subsequent recantations, several alibi witnesses and an obvious other suspect, Devonia was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole. The real perpetrator went on to kill two others. Maggie speaks to Devonia Inman, Jessica Cino J.D., Devonia’s advocate, Dinah Ray, his mother and David Ray, his stepfather. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.mightycause.com/story/Supportdevoniainman https://lavaforgood.com/with-maggie-freleng/ Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	Jason, I've been thinking a lot about post incarceration and I'm wondering if you have thought
0:07.8	about people getting released from prison, particularly people who were wrongfully convicted
0:14.6	and how they adapt once they're out.
0:18.6	You know, my thing Maggie is that I think that the overwhelming majority of people coming
0:24.1	out of prison innocent or guilty, all they need is a chance, right?
0:28.2	And if you open that door, a crack, they're going to go marching through it and they're
0:33.6	going to, you know, do the best they can do with the time they have.
0:41.5	It's a lot more to it than just being free because the prison part, it was hard, but it's
0:53.6	not harder than being thrown back into a big old ocean and you don't know what's in it
1:04.3	or what's there no more.
1:11.9	From Lava for Good, this is wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling.
1:15.4	Today, Devanya Inman.
1:26.2	In the early morning of September 19, 1998, Donna Brown closed up a Taco Bell in Adel,
1:32.1	Georgia.
1:33.1	She was walking through the parking lot to her car, carrying cash she needed to deposit
1:36.7	for work when she was robbed and shot dead.
1:42.2	Most immediately, 20-year-old Devanya Inman became a suspect.
1:46.0	When his girlfriend sister told police, Devanya had come over that night with a whole lot
1:50.7	of money.
1:52.2	Devanya had an alibi, though.
1:54.8	He was with his family, including his grandmother and girlfriend at the time of the murder.
1:59.6	But soon, other people came forward, implicating Devanya, and he was arrested and charged with
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