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#027 Jason Flom with Jerome Morgan

#027 Jason Flom with Jerome Morgan

FromWrongful Conviction


#027 Jason Flom with Jerome Morgan

FromWrongful Conviction

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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jul 10, 2017
Format:
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)

Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit – some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.