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The Case of Antoine Day
📻 Episode #24
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 19, 2017
About This Episode
On September 1, 1990, Thomas Peters and James Coleman were shot while shooting craps outside a liquor store on the west side of Chicago, IL at about 1:30 am. The men were taken to a hospital, where Peters died and Coleman was treated and released for a gunshot wound in the back. Day and a…
The Case
On September 1, 1990, Thomas Peters and James Coleman were shot while shooting craps outside a liquor store on the west side of Chicago, IL at about 1:30 am. The men were taken to a hospital, where Peters died and Coleman was treated and released for a gunshot wound in the back. Day and a codefendant were arrested eight days later after a nephew of Peters and witness to the crime, told police they were the shooters. Despite several other witnesses willing to attest to Day’s innocence, both he and his codefendant were found guilty and sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 60 years for murder and 25 years for attempted murder. In this episode, Antoine Day is joined by Laura Caldwell, a former civil trial attorney who is now the director of Life After Innocence.
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00:06:07“Speaker 2: because they've done a lot of things in the, past Speaker 2: SO i KNEW i should maybe take this lawyer in with. Speaker 1: Me SO i called. Speaker 2: Him he, said, SURE i, come and you, KNOW i, said, Speaker 2: MAN i just to make sure this go. Right you,”
00:24:07“Speaker 1: Think so he would. Speaker 2: Come people would laugh at. Him he, said get you Speaker 2: out of. Here SO i PUT i put faith in Speaker 2: that he'd ask for. Nothing he didn't ask for, anything you. Speaker 2: KNOW i tried to pay for his gas and buying food.”
00:40:45“Speaker 5: ten years inside the most horrific prison, system nightmare for Speaker 5: something he didn't. Speaker 4: Do but it's a great way to look at. Speaker 5: It and the fact is it's almost like the energy Speaker 5: feel that Mister howard, created and then this guy was”
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