#312 Guest Host Laura Nirider with Davontae Sanford

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On September 17, 2007, two men broke into a home in Detroit, MI and fatally shot four people. 14 year old Davontae Sanford, who lived nearby, went outside in his pajamas to see the commotion. Police approached Davontae and brought him back to the station where he was interrogated for two days without a parent or guardian present. The questioning ended when Davontae falsely confessed. Despite someone else taking responsibility for the crimes, Davontae was sentenced to 37 to 90 years in prison.

As Co-Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and co-host and writer of the award-winning Lava For Good podcast, Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions, Laura represents individuals who were wrongfully convicted when they were children or teenagers.

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

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0:32.5	I'm Jason Flom.
0:34.5	You know, at Romple Conviction, we're so proud to be a part of the ever-growing landscape
0:38.6	of the true crime shows that reveal just how our criminal legal system works and just
0:43.6	how often it fails and how grotesquely in some cases it just collapses on people who are
0:49.8	innocent.
0:50.8	And this week I've invited a colleague from another podcast, a podcast that I really love
0:56.0	to bring their own unique style to our coverage of yet another insane, Romple Conviction case.
1:06.7	Late at night on September 17th, 2007, five people on Detroit's east side were at a house
1:12.7	party watching a football game on TV.
1:15.8	Without warning, two men burst into the house and shot the place up.
1:20.6	They killed four of the five people, but one woman survived by hiding under a bed.
1:26.3	One of the gunmen found her there and told her to play dead.
1:30.5	A few blocks away, neighbors were gathering on the street, including 14-year-old Devonte
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