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The Case of Antoine Day
📻 Episode #558
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 22, 2026
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…
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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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00:06:03“Speaker 2: Story i've never been one to trust the police, anyway 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,”
00:24:12“Speaker 2: faith in that he'd ask for. Nothing he'dn't ask for, Speaker 2: anything you. KNOW i tried to pay for his gas Speaker 2: and buying food and he's. Speaker 4: Well he had a he had a phrase that he Speaker 4: would repeat to, you, right which.”
00:40:54“Speaker 5: feel that Mister howard, created and then this guy was Speaker 5: sort of an extension of, that like your other guardian. Speaker 5: Angels but there's no planet on which we should allow Speaker 5: somebody to emerge from this what sort of an extra Speaker 5: fuck you right, here get out of, here smelling like”
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