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Amy & T.J.

80 Million Dollar "Justice" Served 8 Months Too Late

Amy & T.J.

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3.33K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

One of, if not THE largest jury award for a wrongful condition was given to a man who spent 4 decades working to exonerate himself. Earlier this year Darryl Boyd died from pancreatic cancer just months before he was finally set to go to trial, suing the city of Buffalo after spending decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit. Boyd was one of the so called “Buffalo 5”, teenaged black man all wrongfully accused in the robbery and murder of a white man. Boyd’s son and mother came to court every single day, in his honor.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.8

Hey there, everybody.

0:07.7

It is Sunday, December 7th, and one of the largest monetary awards ever given for a wrongful

0:17.6

conviction case happened in the United States just in the past few weeks.

0:24.5

And it was awarded, unfortunately, posthumously.

0:29.5

Is justice still served if it served after death?

0:36.2

That's a question. But $80 million was awarded to the estate of Daryl Boyd.

0:44.2

That's not necessarily a household name, babe, Daryl Boyd, but he was one of the Buffalo Five.

0:53.4

And even that, I think a lot of people might not know that name, that story, that history of

0:58.9

what happened with this story. But we mentioned this, Darry Boyd, and yes, welcome everybody

1:05.7

to this episode of Amy and T.J. This has been a story. I don't know what this is a question of justice. What does

1:14.3

justice look like? A life was taken from this man who ended up on hard times and he should not

1:20.1

be dead right now. By all accounts, by most accounts these days was still a young man. This is a weird, weird, yes, I'm going to go with that.

1:30.2

Weird story where we have a conflict of what justice looks like.

1:37.8

How do you make amends?

1:40.5

This is a guy who finally got what he's been fighting for but never saw it ultimately come to

1:47.5

pass he fought for it for every last moment of his life and perhaps maybe the silver lining was

1:54.8

it was a sweet moment to know that his family members were there in the trial for every single day

2:04.3

as his proxy, his mother and his son attended this trial. We're talking about Daryl Boyd,

2:11.0

one of the Buffalo Five. And if you don't know who the Buffalo Five was, I was not familiar

2:15.2

with this case. I had to look it up. But these were,

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