#542 Jason Flom with Nicholas Allen

Wrongful Conviction

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4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On the night of February 4, 2011, Avalisa Morris was shot and killed at a birthday party in the basement of a two-family home in Queens, NY. The fatal gunshots were fired from outside the party, through the closed door of the entrance to the basement. Even though no eyewitnesses placed Allen at the door with a weapon, he was tried under an acting-in-concert theory, and convicted of second‑degree manslaughter and related firearms charges. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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0:00.0	On February 6, 2011, a party in a Queens, New York basement turned violent.
0:08.0	And when those involved were forced out into the exit stairwell,
0:13.0	two gunshots were fired into the door, fatally striking 26-year-old Avalisa Morris.
0:20.0	The police were soon directed toward a couple, Felicia Douglas and O'Neill Mares,
0:26.6	whose argument allegedly ignited the fray.
0:29.6	Even though O'Neill claims to have left before the gunshots
0:33.6	and didn't match the initial descriptions of the likely shooter, he was arrested and tried, along with his friend Nicholas Allen, who had left the party
0:42.3	hours before the shooting.
0:44.9	This is wrongful conviction.
0:52.6	You're listening to Wrongful Conviction.
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1:07.8	Welcome back to Ronful Conviction, where our guest is calling in from the country of Jamaica
1:16.7	to tell us about a case that happened near Jamaica, Queens, and started with an absolutely
1:22.2	senseless act of violence, which was then compounded by convicting at least one, if not two innocent men, one of them being Nicholas
1:30.0	Brucky Allen. Welcome.
1:32.4	Thank you.
1:33.3	All right, so tell us about growing up in Jamaica and coming to the U.S.
1:37.2	I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. I got four sisters and three brothers.
1:41.6	Two of them was like babies, and one of them was born while I was in
1:45.0	the state so I didn't really actually grew up with those three. I came to the States when I was like
1:50.2	12 so I just remember where I used to live in Jamaica it was like a soccer field next to my home.
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