Ep 224: Trying To Prove Innocence

Court Junkie

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True Crime, News, Talk Radio, Government

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Sedley Alley was convicted in 1985 of a brutal rape and murder that occurred just outside Memphis, Tennessee. For decades, Sedley maintained his innocence, but proving it would be a steep hill to climb. A special thank you to Daniel Medwed for talking to us about this case. Daniel’s new book, Barred: Why The Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison is available here - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barred-daniel-s-medwed/1140835428. Highly recommend! Post-Production for the show is provided by Jon Keur of Wayfare Recording Co. This episode was researched by Nicole Gusmerotti and written by Matt Stroud. Please subscribe to our new podcast, CIVIL, which covers civil cases and trials. Listen to the trailer here - https://link.chtbl.com/CivilPodcast Sponsors in this episode: Peloton - Learn more at onepeloton.com. Progressive Insurance - Visit Progressive.com to get a quote with all the coverages you want, so you can easily compare and choose. BetterHelp - This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/COURT today to get 10% off your first month. Air Doctor - Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code COURT and, depending on the model, you’ll receive up to 35% off. Pluto TV - Download the free Pluto TV app for Android, iPhone, Roku, and Fire TV and start streaming now. Please consider supporting Court Junkie with as little as $3 a month via Patreon.com/CourtJunkie to receive ad-free episodes. Help support Court Junkie with $6 a month and get access to bonus monthly episodes. Follow me on Twitter @CourtJunkiePod or Instagram at CourtJunkie

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0:00.0	There's an old dark joke about people serving time in prison.
0:06.0	There's a scene about it in the movie The Shawshank Redemption.
0:11.0	At a cafeteria table filled with long incarcerated prisoners, a wide-eyed young convict asked Andy
0:18.4	Dufrein what crime brought him to the state of Maine's fictional Shawshank State Prison.
0:25.0	Dufrein doesn't exactly answer the question.
0:29.0	Everybody's innocent in here, he says.
0:32.0	Don't you know that?
0:34.0	The old timers at the cafeteria table giggle at first.
0:38.0	Then they burst into laughter.
0:40.0	Implicit in the joke is that the legal system works and that the concept of a wrongful conviction is a little silly.
0:48.0	Of course, wrongful convictions aren't silly.
0:52.0	In the 30 years since Barry Shack and Peter Newfell established the Innocence Project in New York,
0:58.0	law students and established lawyers and even novelists like John Grisham
1:03.0	have worked to discover people who are actually innocent of crimes that landed them behind bars and then get them out of prison.
1:13.0	To date, Innocence Project chapters across the United States have helped to exonerate 281 people through DNA analysis alone.
1:22.0	And a recent report from the National Registry of Exonerations says that's just a drop in the bucket.
1:28.0	The registry identified 3,248 known exonerations in the United States since 1989.
1:38.0	Today, we're looking at the case of sadly Allie.
1:42.0	Is it the case of another wrongful conviction?
1:45.0	This one leading to even more serious implications?
1:49.0	Convicted in 1985 of a brutal rape and murder that occurred just outside Memphis, Tennessee,
1:57.0	sadly Allie always maintained his innocence.
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