#302 Guest Host Jimmy Dennis with Chester Hollman III

Wrongful Conviction

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4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On August 20, 1991, 24-year-old Tae Jung Ho was robbed and shot to death while walking with a friend in Philadelphia, PA. A coincidence involving a rental car and license plate number led to Chester Hollman III being stopped by police and arrested. Chester was convicted of second-degree murder and robbery and sentenced to life without parole.

In 1991, Jimmy was only 21 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of a gruesome murder committed in broad daylight in North Philadelphia, PA. Jimmy was sent to death row. With no physical evidence, DNA, or a weapon, the musician spent 25 years in prison and was finally exonerated in 2017.

Despite overlaps in their cases, Jimmy and Chester met after they were exonerated. Jimmy set up a conference to campaign for DA Larry Krasner, and he invited all Philadelphia exonerees. There, he met Chester, who immediately told Jimmy he knew him and listened to all of his music. Chester and Jimmy became friends, and bonded over the fact that the same prosecutor, Roger King, was central in sending them both to prison for crimes they did not commit.

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Innocence Files Episode: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80214635

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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0:30.1	I'm Jason Flom, host of Rommelful Conviction.
0:33.0	Over the years, hundreds of exoneries have told me their stories.
0:36.2	And sadly, with the state of our criminal legal system, we're left with far more cases
0:40.3	than I can possibly handle alone.
0:42.6	So I have asked some exoneries to handle some of these cases, bringing the kind of perspective
0:47.7	to the interviews that could only come from living through their own Rommelful Convictions.
0:52.4	This is one of those interviews.
0:58.0	On a hot August night in 1991, University of Pennsylvania grads
1:02.4	to Tate Jung Ho was walking with his friend, their written out square, and filled up here.
1:08.8	A white sherry blazer with four people inside pulled up beside them.
1:13.7	Two of them got out of the car, robbed Tate Jung Ho and shot him.
1:18.6	He died of his injuries a few hours later.
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