#311 Jason Flom with Dennis and Lee Horton

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Brothers, Dennis and Lee Horton, were having a pleasant Memorial Day in 1993 until they decided to visit their father in North Philadelphia and ran into a childhood friend, Robert Leaf. Unbeknownst to the Hortons, Robert Leaf had committed an armed robbery turned homicide earlier that day. Shortly after Robert joined the brothers in their car, police pulled them over. All three were arrested and tried for second degree murder. Robert Leaf's attorney used confusion among the witnesses about the identity of the shooter to win Leaf a lesser sentence, while the Hortons received life without the possibility of parole. After all appeals were denied on procedural grounds, they applied for commutation with the support of an up and coming politician named John Fetterman who was recently elected to the United States Senate for the state of Pennsylvania.

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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?
0:17.2	As the Dutton family fights to protect their legacy, they'll learn power has a price.
0:21.1	Signed as a declaration of war.
0:23.2	We're already at war.
0:24.2	Yellowstone, new episodes Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern exclusively on Paramount Network.
0:34.4	When we first recorded our interview with Dennis and Lee Horton,
0:37.3	they had just gotten out of prison on a sentence commutation.
0:40.7	Less than a year prior, and that happened in large part because of the incredible efforts of John
0:47.1	Federman. After losing the 2016 Democratic Senate primary,
0:51.2	John set his sights on winning Lieutenant Governorship, which put him on the
0:55.6	Pardons and parole board. He then campaigned his fellow board members for the Horton's
1:00.1	Climacy, and despite a denial in 2019, John never gave up on the Horton's.
1:05.7	By the time we recorded this episode, Dennis and Lee were already hard at work,
1:10.6	campaigning for John on his 2022 Senate race.
1:14.3	It was truly surreal to see Dennis and Lee reacting to the win on social media.
1:20.0	What a turn of fate from wrongfully convicted to having a true friend in the United States Senate.
1:26.3	We're re-releasing this episode to congratulate our great friends, Dennis, Lee, and John.
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