The Case of Jason Flom and Maggie Freleng with Andre Brown (Live from the UJC Summit 2023)

📻 Episode #416
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 08, 2024

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About This Episode

This special edition of Wrongful Conviction was recorded on December 1, 2023 live from the United Justice Coalition (UJC) Summit in New York City. This annual gathering brings together activists from all over the world with the expressed purpose of raising awareness of and devising ways to address some of the key social issues of…

The Case

In this episode, Jason and Maggie sit down with Andre Brown at the UJC Summit 2023. Andre was charged with attempted murder for chasing down and shooting two teenage boys in the Bronx, NY in 1999. Even though Andre had a medical condition that made running nearly impossible and several witnesses saw someone else commit the crime, Andre was convicted and sentenced to two 20-year prison terms.

https://www.unjustandunsolved.com/post/episode-19-andre-brown

https://cuomollc.com/oscar/

https://www.deskovicfoundation.org/cases

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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

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00:05:21
“Speaker 3: the turning point in my life. Speaker 1: So you almost died, So you got on a better Speaker 3: Yes, First of all, you have to be an enforcer Speaker 3: on a block in order to hold it down. I Speaker 3: was injured, critically injured. I was at the point where”

00:19:02
“Speaker 3: I was convicted, I was taken back upstairs. I was Speaker 3: crying continuously, taking back to records island. Speaker 5: So the judge waited. Speaker 3: I think it was like three months before sentencing, and Speaker 3: I thought that the judge would have saw the lies”

00:32:44
“Speaker 4: the odds of its success are are not high, the low. Speaker 4: But this room speaks to what happens when you caught Speaker 4: up in the criminal justice system. Right if you if Speaker 4: you're counting on the criminal justicism to work out for you,”

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