The Wrongful Conviction Of Joseph Webster: Episode 2

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We continue the story of Joseph Webster, a Black man who was serving a life sentence for murder in Tennessee – a murder he says he didn’t commit. After a conviction review unit in Nashville created to address potential miscarriages of justice refused to re-investigate his case, despite uncovering new evidence, Joseph and his lawyer question whether these units can actually address the flaws in the justice system. We also explore the state of wrongful convictions across the U.S. and whether review units are helping — or not — to free people from prison. And finally, the moment Joseph and his family have been dreaming of for nearly 15 years.

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0:00.0	I'm Maria Inojosa and I am Penileira Mides.
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0:40.0	Dear listener, today's episode is a continuation of a story we started telling last week.
0:46.0	So if you haven't listened to that yet, you really want to start there.
0:50.0	Look for the wrongful conviction of Joseph Webster, episode one on the Latino USA feed and then come back and listen to episode two.
1:05.0	I don't really understand how a person can put you in prison for so long.
1:12.0	When I'm not even studying the whole case, how can you glance over a case for two or three months?
1:20.0	You can say life's in the rest of my life.
1:24.0	What if you missed the page that said something about me being in and you can do since 20 or 30 years before a person can just flip the page and just look, oh man, we're the main mistake.
1:36.0	From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA.
1:43.0	I'm Maria Inohosa.
1:45.0	Today, the wrongful conviction of Joseph Webster, episode two.
1:56.0	In our last episode, we met Joseph Webster.
2:00.0	He's a black man serving a life sentence in a Tennessee state prison for murder.
2:06.0	And he's been there since 2005.
2:09.0	Joseph was charged with a cold case and was found guilty of murdering a man named Leroy Owens.
2:17.0	Problem is, Joseph says he isn't the one who killed Leroy.
2:21.0	He says it was actually his older brother Kenny.
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