#299 Jason Flom with Terence Rice

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On October 9th, 1990 at 12:10am, police responded to shots being fired at a housing project in Brooklyn, New York. They ended up arresting 23 year old Terence Rice, a man who lived next door to the scene and who was making a call at a payphone in the midst of the chaos. They claimed that Terence was shooting at them, as well as at other things and people, from an apartment window two stories up. Contrary to the policemen’s testimonies, there is no evidence that this shootout actually took place – Terence did not have a weapon on him, officers could not agree on which weapon the alleged shooter was using, and there were no bullet marks or shell casings anywhere near the window from which the shots were supposedly fired. Despite several witnesses willing to corroborate his alibi, Terence was convicted for attempted murder and sentenced to 75 years in prison.

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0:00.0	Back in the spring of 2021, Terence Rice's case was stagnating before the Brooklyn
0:05.3	Conviction Review Unit, and he reached out to us at wrongful conviction to see if he
0:09.7	could create some pressure from the outside.
0:12.0	The interview was ready for release in October 2021 when his legal team requested that
0:16.4	we temporarily shelve the episode as they were at a critical juncture in negotiations
0:20.9	with Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez.
0:23.5	In nearly a year, the interview has finally been cleared for release.
0:31.1	Shortly after midnight on October 9, 1990, Terence Rice finished a pay phone call outdoors
0:36.5	at the Tilden Housing Projects in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
0:40.0	While using the walkway on the rear side of a neighboring building to return home, a gun
0:43.9	battle was taking place inside and in front of that building, involving the occupants of
0:48.6	apartment 1F.
0:50.6	Terence Rice were already in the area and began arresting those fleeing the shooting through
0:54.0	the back door.
0:55.9	Terence was swept up in the chaos with three other men.
0:58.9	While two of the three have always maintained that Terence was not in apartment 1F, the third
1:04.0	man Tyrone Flowers allegedly was beaten into giving a false statement supporting an
1:09.2	uncorroborated police narrative.
1:11.9	This narrative alleged that, separate from a well-documented gun battle inside and in front
1:16.6	of the building, that Terence allegedly fired four or five shots at police officers out
1:21.8	of the back window of apartment 1F, to which officers claimed to have returned fire,
1:27.3	and that Terence allegedly climbed out of that window totally unscathed before his arrest
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