Hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, and Pulitzer prize-winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng, Wrongful Conviction features intimate conversations with men and women who have spent years in prison for crimes they maintain they did not commit. Some have been fully exonerated and reunited with family and friends while others continue to languish, with some even facing execution on death row. Each episode peels back the layers behind the stories of those who have found themselves caught in a legal system gone wrong, with illuminating insights from lawyers and leading experts sharing their in-depth knowledge about each case, from prison visits and courtroom battles to reexamined crime scenes and witness interviews. This gripping series reveals the tragedy of injustice...as well as the triumph that is possible when people step up and demand change.

Wrongful Conviction

Could I have somehow done this and not remembered it? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us the story of Billy Wayne Cope- a father and husband, a man of faith, and one of many railroaded into a false confession. The interrogation techniques were so potent that Billy even started questioning his own memory. Though DNA evidence pointed to the real killer, prosecutors refused to acknowledge Billy's innocence. This case will stay with you. It certainly left a mark on Steve. To donate, learn more, or get involved, go to: <a href="http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/">http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/</a> Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1. Learn more and get involved at <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#125 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Billy Wayne Cope

In the fall of 1998, Julius Jones had the whole world ahead of him. He was a freshman who planned to study engineering and was attending the University of Oklahoma on an academic scholarship. The following summer, just three days after his 19th birthday, Julius was awakened and dragged out of bed, barefoot and shirtless, and taken into police custody as a murder suspect. In 2002, he was convicted of killing a prominent local businessman – this after eyewitness testimony that should have excluded the young man as a suspect, as well as overt racial bias both in the news media and in the jury box. Julius Jones is facing execution as early as the fall of 2020. Special guests Kim Kardashian West along with Julius’ current attorney, Dale Baich and his mother and sister, Madeline and Antoinette Jones, join Jason Flom to discuss Julius’ case and the race for the State of Oklahoma to grant him clemency before it’s too late. Learn more and get involved at: <a href="https://www.justiceforjuliusjones.com/">https://www.justiceforjuliusjones.com/ </a> <a href="https://www.change.org/p/julius-jones-is-innocent-don-t-let-him-be-executed-by-the-state-of-oklahoma">https://www.change.org/p/julius-jones-is-innocent-don-t-let-him-be-executed-by-the-state-of-oklahoma</a> <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom</a> Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#133 Jason Flom and Kim Kardashian on Julius Jones

Introducing Josh Dubin, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and Innocence Ambassador to the Innocence Project in New York. On the debut episode of Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science, Josh explores bite mark evidence. Like other forms of junk science used in criminal trials, bite mark evidence does not benefit crime victims or their loved ones. So why is it treated like credible science? It turns out that the charade of bite mark evidence is actually older than the United States. Learn more and get involved. <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science</a> Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#145 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Bite Mark Evidence

COVID 19 has derailed our normal lives into that of isolation, restricted movement, anxiety, despair, and even the threat of death. Jason Flom knows a lot of people that have an intimate knowledge of all of these things and how to cope with them. In the first interview of a new mini series from Wrongful Conviction Podcasts Jason Flom speaks with Damien Echols, a man who spent 18 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. Damien tells us how he used exercise, art, structure, mental focus, and free will to not allow isolation and fear to break him plus, an epiphany that came from one man’s deadly encounter with a can of corn that continues to guide him even through our current shared reality in this time of COVID. Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom is a production of LAVA For GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co Co1. Learn more and get involved at <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#124 Jason Flom with Damien Echols in Times of COVID

What could make someone confess to the murder of their own mother? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to The Bronx in 1989. Huwe Burton was sixteen years old and charged with the murder of his own mother. Even as Huwe was bulldozed into a false confession, the real killer was living in the apartment just one floor below. To donate, learn more, or get involved, go to: <a href="http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/">http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/</a> Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1 and PRX. Learn more and get involved at <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#127 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Huwe Burton

How can one man save the life of a perfect stranger? The case of Daniel Villegas shows how ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference in the fight against wrongful convictions. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell the story of an unexpected hero who fought for years to turn tragedy into triumph, ending in one of the most dramatic courtroom exonerations ever seen. To donate, learn more, or get involved, go to <a href="https://www.centeronwrongfulconvictions.org/">https://www.centeronwrongfulconvictions.org/</a> Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1. Learn more and get involved at <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#121 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Daniel Villegas

Guests Barry Scheck (Co-Founder of The Innocence Project), exoneree Barry Gibbs and Vanessa Potkin (Director of Post-Conviction Litigation for The Innocence Project) detail the unfathomable odyssey of Barry Gibbs in the bizarre case of The Mafia Cops. Barry was wrongfully convicted of a 1986 second-degree murder in NYC. His conviction was based on misconduct by a NYPD detective, who was later convicted of arranging and committing several murders and cover-ups on behalf of an organized crime family. Barry was incarcerated for 19 years before new evidence led to his release and subsequent exoneration in 2005. <a href="http://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.comhttps://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom</a> Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom is a production of Lava For Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#001 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Barry Gibbs

Atif Rafay was a thriving, brilliant, and happy student who had just finished his freshman year at Cornell University. On a weekend trip in July of 1994, while visiting his family in Bellevue, Washington, Atif Rafay’s mother, father, and sister were all brutally murdered in their home. Investigators targeted Atif and his best friend, Sebastian Burns, because they were ‘acting strangely.’ Despite a corroborated alibi that both young men were not present during the killings, as well as extensive evidence of other parties’ involvement, Atif and Sebastian were convicted of murder. Learn more and get involved at: <a href="https://rafayburnsappeal.com/">https://rafayburnsappeal.com/</a> <a href="https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/atif-rafay-and-sebastian-burns">https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/atif-rafay-and-sebastian-burns</a> <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom</a> Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#226 Jason Flom with Atif Rafay

How could a layperson see all the problems with this interrogation when the police couldn’t? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about Chris Tapp, just 20 when he endured a mind-bending, 25-hour interrogation that transformed him from an innocent man into a confessed murderer. Fortunately for Chris, he found an indomitable champion... in the victim’s mother, Carol Dodge. Carol convinced police to use a revolutionary new method of DNA identification to exonerate Chris and find her own daughter’s killer. To donate, learn more, or get involved, go to: <a href="http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/">http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/</a> Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1. Learn more and get involved at <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/false-confessions</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#129 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Chris Tapp

Josh Dubin, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and Innocence Ambassador to the Innocence Project in New York explores bloodstain pattern evidence with Pamela Colloff, senior reporter at ProPublica and staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Bloodstain pattern experts falsely claim that they can identify the culprit of violent crimes. But, bloodstain pattern evidence has no grounding in any verifiable science. So how did this kind of junk science become admissible? Learn more and get involved. Pamela Coloff’s two part story on the Joe Bryan case Blood Will Tell - ProPublica Part 1 <a href="https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/mickey-bryan-murder-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/">https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/mickey-bryan-murder-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/</a> Part 2 <a href="https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/joe-bryan-conviction-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/">https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/joe-bryan-conviction-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/</a> National Academy of Sciences: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf">https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science">https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science</a> Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science is a production of Lava for GoodTM Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#147 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Bloodstain Pattern Evidence

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