#453 Jason Flom with Jennifer McMullan at the 2024 Innocence Conference

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On March 6, 2001, two masked men attempted to rob a small restaurant in McHenry, IL. The owner, wielding a butcher knife, and his employee chased the men out of the restaurant, and in the ensuing chase, the owner was shot and killed. Police began to focus on 19-year-old Jennifer McMullan and some of her friends after finding out that they were in the area at the time of the shooting. A couple of months later, police – believing Jennifer was the getaway driver in the shooting – questioned her for 15 hours resulting in Jennifer falsely confessing to the murder. Despite the only eyewitness not identifying Jennifer’s friend group as the perpetrators, she was sentenced to 27 years in prison for first-degree murder.

TO GET INVOLVED, PLEASE CALL ILLINOIS GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER AT 217-782-0244 AND SAY:

"Governor Pritzker -
Jennifer McMullan was wrongfully convicted as a party to a 2001 robbery homicide. It appears the prosecution withheld evidence of more compelling suspects who had confessed to multiple witnesses. Further, DNA test results have made the state’s theory in her case completely implausible. Her clemency petition is currently under review, and she rightfully deserves a pardon.
I hope you do what is just.
Thank you."

YOU CAN ALSO WRITE GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER AT:
Office of the Governor
555 W. Monroe St., 16th Floor
Chicago, IL 60661

To learn more, visit:
https://www.uis.edu/illinoisinnocenceproject

https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/443-jason-flom-with-mario-casciaro/

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