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#027 Jason Flom with Jerome Morgan
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jul 10, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
In 1993, Jerome Morgan was only 17 when he was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Clarence Landry III, who had been shot to death at a sweet 16 party at the Howard Johnson Hotel in New Orleans. Mr. Morgan was in the ballroom when the police arrived. Despite clear evidence that he could not have been the gunman, he was prosecuted based upon the coerced testimony of two teenage witnesses, one of whom had previously told the police it was definitely not Jerome Morgan. Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) investigated Mr. Morgan’s case for years, uncovering clear evidence in the police files that it was impossible for Mr. Morgan to have been the perpetrator. IPNO presented this evidence in court over a period of several years and got Jerome Morgan’s conviction thrown out because, as every judge agreed, the State should have turned over the exculpatory evidence to Mr. Morgan’s trial lawyer. Mr. Morgan was released from prison in 2014 and exonerated on May 27th, 2016. In this episode, he is joined by one of his attorneys at IPNO, Kristin Wenstrom.
Released:
Jul 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
S1E3: The Actual Innocence of Fernando Bermudez by Wrongful Conviction