#292 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Eric Blackmon

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On July 4, 2002, two men shot and killed 36-year-old Tony Cox outside a restaurant in Chicago, IL. Suspecting the murder was gang-related, police arrested Eric Blackmon. After claiming Blackmon was selected from a lineup by eyewitnesses, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Guest Host Patrick Pursley was wrongfully convicted for a 1993 murder in Rockford, IL, for which he spent nearly 24 years in prison. Remarkably, he ended up writing the law that set him free.

Patrick and Eric spent over a decade together in Stateville Correctional Center in Cook County, Illinois. They both learned the law and represented themselves before being granted their freedom.

To learn more and get involved, visit:

https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/eric-blackmon.html

https://www.macarthurjustice.org/team_member/eric-blackmon/

https://www.thejri.org/bod

https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/board-of-directors

This episode is part of a special series in our Wrongful Conviction podcast feed of 15 episodes focused on individual cases of wrongful incarceration, guest hosted by formerly incarcerated returning citizens and leading criminal justice advocates, award-winning journalists and progressive influencers.

Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	Yellowstone, television's number one show is back on Paramount Network.
0:03.6	I John Dutton, who solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the State of Montana,
0:08.4	against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
0:10.8	Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner,
0:13.9	the invasion is over. They will fight you dirty.
0:16.0	Is there any other way?
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0:21.1	Signed as a declaration of war.
0:23.2	We're already at war.
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0:30.2	I'm Jason Flom. Since I began recording Ralfalconviction back in 2016,
0:35.0	I've interviewed hundreds of exonerees, but unfortunately that's just the tip of the criminal
0:40.3	injustice iceberg. So I've invited new voices to host the show, including people who have
0:45.7	personally experienced the horror of that system. This is one of those interviews.
0:50.0	It's July 4th, 2002. In 36 year old Tony Cox is meeting up with Richard
0:58.8	O'Rigo, the owner of Fat Albert's, a restaurant on the west side of Chicago.
1:04.0	They lead the restaurant together. O'Rigo turns the locked door behind him.
1:09.2	And that's when he hears two gunshots.
1:12.0	Tony Cox is shot dead. O'Rigo stands at a close distance to the shooters,
1:17.4	but he doesn't recognize them as they flee to seem.
1:21.6	Two women witnessed the crime from their cars. Both of them called 911.
1:26.7	And both would later be asked to identify the shooters from photographs,
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