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The Case of Jason Flom and Greg Glod with John Jones - RE-RELEASE
📻 Episode #284
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 11, 2022
About This Episode
At about 9:40 AM on March 19th, 2010, John Jones awoke to find his daughter Jada unresponsive and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to the hospital where she remained until July 16th, 2010 when she was removed from life support and passed away. Based on the junk science of shaken baby syndrome, John was convicted…
The Case
At about 9:40 AM on March 19th, 2010, John Jones awoke to find his daughter Jada unresponsive and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to the hospital where she remained until July 16th, 2010 when she was removed from life support and passed away. Based on the junk science of shaken baby syndrome, John was convicted of murdering his daughter and sentenced to 15 years to life.
Greg Glod, Criminal Justice Fellow at Americans for Prosperity, returns to our podcast to co-host with Jason Flom and share this tragic example of our legal system gone awry.
For more on the junk science of Shaken Baby Syndrome, check out Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Shaken Baby Syndrome with host Josh Dubin, released on November 18th, 2020. https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/podcast/s12e14-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-shaken-baby-syndrome
https://www.ohioinnocenceproject.org
https://cifsjustice.org/
https://lavaforgood.com/with-jason-flom/
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.
00:05:54“Speaker 2: visuals of murder of a child. Speaker 3: And there's a little bit of a gap in understanding Speaker 3: between the mid to late nine seventies and then when Speaker 3: we start to see these cases appear in published appellate Speaker 3: decisions in the late eighties, and we started to see”
00:22:03“Speaker 1: chronic subdural bleeding. It still hasn't been determined what causes Speaker 1: this overlying condition, but birth trauma has been suggested as Speaker 1: a potential cause, whether natural or cesarian, and this condition Speaker 1: usually manifests within the child second to six months. Jada, Speaker 1: of course, was six months old when this occurred, and”
00:38:26“Speaker 4: have heard in twenty ten what it could hear today, Speaker 4: that a conviction simply wouldn't have happened. Speaker 2: So really, what you have here, and taking a step back, Speaker 2: is you have a horrible tragedy. You have a conviction Speaker 2: based upon science that, if it was tried today, would”
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