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Wrongful Conviction

#384 Jason Flom with Stephanie Spurgeon

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Spurgeon was a married mother of two who had been running a daycare facility from her home for 15 years. On August 21, 2008, Stephanie took care of 1 year old Maria Harris for the first time. Maria’s grandmother picked her up that day, but soon noticed Maria was unresponsive. After 8 days in the hospital, Maria passed away. Because Stephanie was the last supervisor of the child, she was accused of murder and convicted of manslaughter based on the prosecution’s argument of Abusive Head Trauma. After 9 years in the Florida prison system, numerous Innocence Projects helped Stephanie assert her innocence, and in 2021, she accepted an Alford Plea and was finally freed.

In this updated episode, Jason Flom catches up with Stephanie to discuss the great advocacy work she is doing today to pay it forward to others who are wrongfully convicted.

To learn more and get involved, visit:

https://gofund.me/06c1b747

Tre Clay: https://www.instagram.com/justice_for_tre_clay/?hl=en

Stephanie's podcast, Freedom Fighters: https://open.spotify.com/show/6BR03ECj2NitXptajTtkmH

https://millerforstateattorney.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MillerForStateAttorney

https://www.instagram.com/millerforstateattorney/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/afmiller2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmwdSfek2aM

https://lavaforgood.com/with-jason-flom

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

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0:00.0

Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

0:03.8

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship

0:08.6

on our favorite show. We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett,

0:12.0

posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from

0:17.1

the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world

0:21.7

and our place in it. You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

0:25.7

Listen to In retrospect on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your favorite shows.

0:32.1

I'm Liz Flock. I want to tell you a story about how generations of trauma can lead to a point

0:37.8

of no return. In 2017 a black woman named Devon Gray killed her white boyfriend John Vance.

0:45.3

She says it was self-defense and he was incredibly abusive. But then she took a blind plea

0:50.3

for manslaughter and got 15 years. From lemon out of media, this is blind plea.

0:57.7

Available now wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos,

1:02.4

host of the Happiness Lab podcast. It's never too late or too early to learn how to feel happier.

1:07.6

So my new season has well-being tips for you whether you're aged three or a hundred.

1:12.0

Play six like me. Did I mention I have some amazing co-hosts for this season?

1:16.1

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1:21.2

from Sesame Street. That's us. I'm so excited.

1:25.9

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1:30.6

podcasts. I am so excited. The Unimaginable. Season two of the Unimaginable Hones in on

1:38.4

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1:44.0

Tyco White TT stick to your to your vision of what you're trying to do. It's just more pure.

1:49.5

The family is more pure and the success is more pure. This season delivers behind the scenes

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