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The Case of Jerome Loach
📻 Episode #241
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 19, 2022
About This Episode
43 year old Jerome Loach was performing in a play at a church in South Philadelphia, PA on the evening of January 10, 2009. At the same time, police responded to a home invasion, in which three women were confronted at gunpoint by men posing as pizza deliverers. Two men were arrested, but a third…
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The Case
43 year old Jerome Loach was performing in a play at a church in South Philadelphia, PA on the evening of January 10, 2009. At the same time, police responded to a home invasion, in which three women were confronted at gunpoint by men posing as pizza deliverers. Two men were arrested, but a third man was implicated – Jerome. While the incriminating statement was recanted before trial, it was presented to the jury anyway. This, along with the police’s fabrication of phone records to secure Jerome’s involvement, led to Jerome’s conviction. Jerome served over 10 years of a 25-50 year sentence before the charges were dropped and he was released.
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00:03:59“Speaker 2: this story in my life began to take a change. Speaker 1: Yeah, it adds a layer of tragedy to this awful Speaker 1: injustice because it impacted you and your family, but also Speaker 1: the opportunities that you were providing for people who really Speaker 1: needed those opportunities. Let's go back to the case itself.”
00:16:00“Speaker 2: Loaches phone to these phones. Speaker 3: None. Not only that, the phone company. Speaker 2: Said this phone itself do not have the capabilities to Speaker 2: make texts, but they withheld all of that. Tank Calliquish said, Speaker 2: let's use a universal for rigic distraction device. This is”
00:26:53“Speaker 1: but they still didn't want to dismiss the case. Yet Speaker 1: they offered you a deal to plead guilty, to reduce Speaker 1: charge and become eligible for parole. Now I know you Speaker 1: turned it down, but did you even give it a Speaker 1: second thought. That's a hard decision to make, right.”
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