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The Case of Floyd Bledsoe and Cornelius Dupree (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017)
📻 Episode #21
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 24, 2017
About This Episode
This special edition of Wrongful Conviction was recorded at the 2017 Innocence Network Conference in San Diego, CA, where 170 exonerees and 750 members of the innocence movement gathered to honor newly freed people and learn about the latest developments in freeing the wrongfully convicted. Part One features interviews with Innocence Project Executive Director Maddy…
The Case
This special edition of Wrongful Conviction was recorded at the 2017 Innocence Network Conference in San Diego, CA, where 170 exonerees and 750 members of the innocence movement gathered to honor newly freed people and learn about the latest developments in freeing the wrongfully convicted. Part One features interviews with Innocence Project Executive Director Maddy DeLone and exonerees Floyd Bledsoe and Cornelius Dupree. Floyd Bledsoe was exonerated in 2015 after 15 years in prison for a murder his brother committed. Since his release, Floyd has been a fierce advocate for mandatory recording of interrogations among other reforms in Kansas. Cornelius Dupree was exonerated in 2011, after spending more than 30 years in prison for a rape and robbery he didn’t commit. Cornelius serves as the ambassador to all of the new exonerees at the Innocence Network Conferences.
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00:06:55“Speaker 2: workers who work in the office and each of them Speaker 2: works on cases as people are about to come home, Speaker 2: and then is a person for them to go to Speaker 2: and talk to over the course of you know, intensively, Speaker 2: probably the first year, but for some people they're still”
00:27:59“Speaker 5: together who have had similar experiences and you would know Speaker 8: Last year was my first conference in San Antonio. I'd Speaker 8: been out twelve weeks. Twelve weeks, and you know, I Speaker 8: show up here and you're just starstruck because in Kansas Speaker 8: you feel like you're all alone. But then you get here.”
00:46:46“Speaker 5: two thousand and seven, and obviously we took your case Speaker 5: and that was the inn Project New York, and then Speaker 5: things started to really turn your way. Speaker 1: Yes, it was actually after the O. J. Simpson trial. Speaker 3: It was a big trial and whatnot, And I think”
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