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The Case of Jerome Morgan
📻 Episode #27
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 10, 2017
About This Episode
In 1993, Jerome Morgan was only 17 when he was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Clarence Landry III, who had been shot to death at a sweet 16 party at the Howard Johnson Hotel in New Orleans. Jerome was in the ballroom when the police arrived. Despite clear evidence that he could not have…
The Case
In 1993, Jerome Morgan was only 17 when he was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Clarence Landry III, who had been shot to death at a sweet 16 party at the Howard Johnson Hotel in New Orleans. Jerome was in the ballroom when the police arrived. Despite clear evidence that he could not have been the gunman, he was prosecuted based upon the coerced testimony of two teenage witnesses, one of whom had previously told the police it was definitely not Jerome Morgan. Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) investigated Jerome’s case for years, uncovering clear evidence in the police files that it was impossible for Jerome to have been the perpetrator. IPNO presented this evidence in court over a period of several years and got Jerome Morgan’s conviction thrown out because, as every judge agreed, the State should have turned over the exculpatory evidence to Jerome’s trial lawyer. Jerome Morgan was released from prison in 2014 and exonerated on May 27th, 2016. In this episode, he is joined by one of his attorneys at IPNO, Kristin Wenstrom.
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00:06:26“Speaker 4: How many people were at the party. Speaker 2: Well, by record, over eighty because everybody had to enlist Speaker 2: their names before leaving. But that don't account for the Speaker 2: people that may have left as they were running from Speaker 4: But at least eighty people, it was a pretty big party. Yes, yes, yeah,”
00:25:58“Speaker 7: You just talk about making money off of incarcerating people. Speaker 7: Obviously there's all the services, but there's the make money Speaker 7: off of that system. But there's also the individual men Speaker 7: who are at Angola, which is a former slave plantation Speaker 7: or a combination of multiple slave plantations, where you've got”
00:45:05“Speaker 4: not the sheriff's department, the sheriff themselves. So they've been Speaker 4: feeding the inmates there corn dogs all day, every day Speaker 4: because it's the cheapest thing you can get. And there's Speaker 4: a lawsuit taking place right now. You can't even make Speaker 4: this stuff up, and it's just it's sort of under”
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