The Case of Frederick Willie Kearse

📻 Episode #449
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 23, 2024

⬥ STILL IMPRISONED

About This Episode

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The Case

On August 6, 1993, Devon “Dog” Brown and Raymondo “Ray” Frazier exited a bodega in Brooklyn, NY, when at least two people fired a slew of bullets from a passing car. Ray was shot in his legs and survived, while Devon was killed. 911 calls came in around 3:03pm describing 2-3 young black men in a Buick Century - a drive by shooting. Primarily on the strength of three questionable eyewitness identifications, Frederick was arrested and charged with murder, convicted and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

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00:04:19
“Speaker 4: to Bard College and you know, graduate from there. Speaker 1: So it's sad to think of what could have been Speaker 1: had Frederick not come of age during the crack epidemic Speaker 1: in a historically poor area of New York where he Speaker 1: was hustling in the streets, leading to a few related”

00:15:54
“Speaker 1: You can listen to our coverage of ballistics evidence on Speaker 1: Wromful Conviction Junk Science, in which you'll find that the Speaker 1: ballistics analysis can really only be useful in ruling out Speaker 1: a weapon, but you can not identify a weapon to Speaker 1: the exclusion of all others. That's exactly what was done here.”

00:26:44
“Speaker 4: my criminal record, despite you know, I had a degree. Speaker 4: So you know, it's been very hard. But again Parole Speaker 4: Preparation Project has supported me. Currently, I'm an employee at Speaker 4: the pro Reparation Project. You know, I'm a co founder Speaker 4: of my archive based Creative Art program with them, so”

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