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The Case of Jerome Dixon
📻 Episode #407
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 16, 2023
About This Episode
Just after midnight on July 25, 1990, a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Oakland, CA. Shortly after the shooting, police picked up 17-year-old Jerome Dixon, who had been hanging out with his friends nearby, and drove him to the crime scene and then to the police…
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The Case
Just after midnight on July 25, 1990, a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Oakland, CA. Shortly after the shooting, police picked up 17-year-old Jerome Dixon, who had been hanging out with his friends nearby, and drove him to the crime scene and then to the police station. Police interrogated Jerome for 25 hours eliciting a confession. Despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime, Jerome accepted a plea deal for second-degree murder and was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:30“Speaker 3: That's right. And because of sort of the environment in Speaker 3: the neighborhood, the police just make an assumption that this Speaker 3: is part of a drug turf war, regardless of the Speaker 3: fact that this is not somebody who's dealing drugs, and Speaker 3: there's no factual grounding for this assumption.”
00:18:29“Speaker 3: an uzi in the air to scare off witnesses, but Speaker 3: not a single eyewitness to this mentioned that at all. Speaker 3: And then Jerome also describes throwing this weapon down as Speaker 3: he ran away, but no gun was ever recovered. Speaker 1: So they got the number of people wrong for starters”
00:32:04“Speaker 2: It was very special in so many ways. I didn't Speaker 2: believe that it would happen, but it happened. I was Speaker 2: met by my sisters. I wish my dad would have Speaker 2: been there to see me walk out. All I wanted Speaker 2: him to do was to see me walk out of”
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