Wrongful Conviction: The Exoneration of Willie T. Donald

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🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week in a special True Crime Daily Podcast: Our guest is Willie "Timmy" Donald, an Indiana man wrongly convicted of robbery and murder who served more than 20 years in prison before he was exonerated. We discuss how Mr. Donald went car-shopping with family one night in 1992 and ended up in a police lineup, how police and prosecutors let the wrong man go to prison -- and what has changed since.

Also joining us is Willie T. Donald's attorney, Thomas Vanes; and Dr. Nicky Jackson, coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program at Purdue University Northwest in Indiana, who is the creator and chair of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition. Criminal defense attorney Alison Triessl co-hosts with Ana Garcia.

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0:00.0	A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language.
0:06.4	It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing. Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily the podcast covering high profile and
0:20.2	under the radar cases from across the country every week.
0:23.4	We are recording this podcast on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020.
0:28.0	I'm your host Anna Garcia.
0:29.8	And our guest host today is Criminal Defense Attorney, Allison Treasel, and friend of the show.
0:36.0	Welcome back, Allison.
0:37.4	Oh, I'm so excited to be here and especially for this one, Anna.
0:40.5	I mean, there's few cases that have moved me like this one where you have a really tough sad story but a real happy ending.
0:51.0	Absolutely and that's why this episode is special.
0:54.6	We're doing things differently.
0:56.0	We're going to look at one case and also we're going to be releasing this episode during
1:01.3	the holidays because there is a glimmer of hope in this very
1:06.2	sad criminal story so let's not lose sight of that what we're doing in this special
1:10.9	episode is that we're going to do a deep dive into what
1:13.5	happens when someone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted, sent to prison, and
1:19.2	then the truth comes out and the person is released but after 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
1:28.0	Anna, this man spent 20, 23 years, 10 months, and 25 days in prison for crimes that he didn't commit. I mean let's think about how long that is
1:48.0	two and a half decades awful. It is a lifetime it is decades. Awful. Awful.
1:53.0	It is a lifetime.
1:54.3	It is.
1:55.3	It is a lifetime.
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