The Case of Jarrett Adams and Dmitri Henley

📻 Episode #222
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 15, 2021

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About This Episode

3 Chicago teenagers went to a party at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where embarrassment turned a consensual encounter into a far-fetched gang rape accusation wrapped up in well-worn racist tropes. Three radically different outcomes for each young man only served to underscore the absurdity of this tragic failure of our justice system.

The Case

Jarrett Adams’ book Redeeming Justice: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624157/redeeming-justice-by-jarrett-adams/9780593395905

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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

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00:04:45
“Speaker 5: party and we're looking, you know for the main central Speaker 5: party room. But when we got to this campus, it Speaker 5: was parties in every dorm room. You could go to Speaker 5: this dorm room, beer pong, this dorm room, people smoking Speaker 5: weed and and so we just were kids escaping the”

00:18:01
“Speaker 3: ends the case for good. And Ravon Hill's lawyer thought Speaker 3: that this mistrial was caused by the prosecution's own mistakes Speaker 3: and therefore a retrial should be barred. And so as Speaker 3: the prosecution set to retry all three of them, Ravon Speaker 3: Hill and his attorney sought leave to appeal and to”

00:31:53
“Speaker 5: Right, So, it talks about my journey because what I Speaker 5: didn't want people to think is that I got here alone, Speaker 5: because I didn't get here alone. Speaker 2: I had to help with the community. Speaker 5: I had to help, and the support even of Dmitri”

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