#300 Guest Host Earlonne Woods with Caramad Conley

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In April 1989, a drive-by shooting in San Francisco, CA, left at least 11 people injured, and 2 people dead. Despite the lack of physical or forensic evidence, Caramad Conley was convicted of conspiracy to commit first degree murder, two counts of first degree murder, and eleven counts of attempted murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on the strength of one man’s testimony, Clifford Polk.

Earlonne is a podcaster and author, best known for co-hosting and co-founding the podcast Ear Hustle. Woods helped create Ear Hustle while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. In November 2018, Earlonne’s sentence was commuted by California Governor Jerry Brown. In 2020, he and his Ear Hustle co-hosts were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.

After Caramad's exoneration, and while Earlonne was still serving his sentence at San Quentin, Caramad visited the prison and he and Earlonne met in the media center. They began talking, became friends, and remained close since Earlonne's release.

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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	I'm Jason Flamen. I'm over the top excited because this is our 300th episode. Listen, I wish
0:07.1	we never had to do any episodes at all. And I wish that these wrongful convictions weren't
0:10.8	even a thing. But we're going to keep doing them for as long as we possibly can until my
0:16.6	last breath. I'll be making these podcasts. But this is the 300th one. And we are honored.
0:22.2	And I'm humbled to have as a guest host for this episode. My friend and personally here
0:28.8	are Mr. Irlon Woods. Now Irlon, you probably know his name because he's the guy who created
0:35.0	and co-hosted the groundbreaking podcast Ear Hustle, which he produced while serving time
0:39.2	in San Quentin, prison. So thank you for your continued support. We still have tons more
0:45.0	work to do. And we hope you'll listen and get involved.
0:52.8	Back in the 1980s, Caribag Conley was living in San Francisco, California. That was doing
0:58.4	the crack era. And police was doing everything they could to stop out gang activity. On
1:04.1	April 8, 1989, there was a drive by a student in Caramod's neighborhood. The bullets injured
1:09.8	11 and killed two Charles Hughes and Rochon Johnson. Of the eight people who were allegedly
1:15.9	involved in the crime, only one person Paul Green was convicted in sentence. The pressure
1:22.3	was building for police to find other perpetrators. About a month before this crime happened,
1:27.9	Caramod had gotten to a fight with another kid from school. It landed Caramod with an assault
1:32.9	charge. So police created a narrative around his fight that it started a whole series
1:37.6	of violent retaliations resulting in the drive by a student. Yet, police had no evidence
1:43.2	beyond one witness who claimed he heard Caramod bragging about his involvement. Still,
1:48.3	Caramod would be convicted of two murders and ten attempted murders. He was sentenced
1:52.8	to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This is wrongful conviction.
2:13.0	I'm Irlon Woods and I'm a co-host and co-creative of podcast called Ear Hustle, which brings
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