The Case of SPECIAL EMERGENCY EPISODE: Jason Flom and Maggie Freleng with Andre Brown live from the UJC Summit

📻 Episode #522
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 22, 2025

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About This Episode

In this updated special edition of Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom & Maggie Freleng, we revisit the case of Andre Brown, whose conviction was vacated in 2022 after newly presented evidence and witness testimony demonstrated he could not have committed the crime.

The Case

Despite this, the Bronx District Attorney has shockingly overturned the vacated ruling—and Andre is now being sent back to prison this Friday, April 25, 2025, to serve an additional 17 years, after already spending 23 years behind bars for a crime he has always maintained he did not commit.

Recorded live at the UJC Summit 2023, Jason and Maggie sat down with Andre to hear his firsthand account of the nightmare that began in 1999, when he was wrongfully convicted of attempted murder in the Bronx. Although Andre suffered from a medical condition that made running nearly impossible—and multiple witnesses pointed to another suspect—he was sentenced to two 20-year terms.

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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.

00:05:53
“Speaker 5: upward manner. First, I took on a job at creating barrel, Speaker 5: trying to think that it would be able to fit Speaker 5: the bill, and it didn't. It couldn't feed my little Speaker 5: sister or my other two brothers. So at that time Speaker 5: I said, you know what, I have to do something else.”

00:20:38
“Speaker 5: And I sat there and the judge came in and Speaker 5: we all rose, and there was one guy I'll never Speaker 5: forget in the jury and he kept looking at me Speaker 5: and he was shaking his head like, Yo, Yo, it's Speaker 5: not good, man, it's not good. And I looked at him.”

00:34:54
“Speaker 1: need to make sure that he doesn't go back to prison. Speaker 6: Yeah, they're filed an appeal of the khure of the conviction, Speaker 6: and I got to tell you, you know, the odds Speaker 6: of its success are not high, they're low. But this”

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