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The Case of Kim Kardashian West
📻 Episode #69
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 05, 2018
About This Episode
Kim Kardashian West first heard about Alice Marie Johnson through a short video about Johnson’s life behind bars on Twitter. Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old-great-grandmother, was given a life sentence for a first time-nonviolent-drug-related crime and was not eligible for parole. At the time, Johnson had already been in prison for 21 years. Kardashian West…
The Case
Kim Kardashian West first heard about Alice Marie Johnson through a short video about Johnson’s life behind bars on Twitter. Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old-great-grandmother, was given a life sentence for a first time-nonviolent-drug-related crime and was not eligible for parole. At the time, Johnson had already been in prison for 21 years. Kardashian West retweeted that video from Mic.com saying “This is so unfair” on October 25, 2017. That single tweet and Johnson’s story moved Kardashian West and ignited a passion in her for criminal justice reform. It became her mission to help free Johnson and reunite her with the family she missed so much. Kardashian West’s journey took her to the White House where she personally petitioned for a pardon of Johnson’s criminal offenses and on June 6, 2018, President Donald Trump granted clemency to Alice Marie Johnson. In this special edition of Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom, Kim Kardashian West discusses her commitment to criminal justice reform and how she plans to continue using her voice to advocate on behalf of those behind bars.
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00:07:23“Speaker 4: and what you're doing with Alice, and it's so important Speaker 4: that she's such a wonderful spokesperson because of the fact Speaker 4: that people need to understand that in these cases, the Speaker 4: least culpable person, which in this case was her, ends Speaker 4: up with the longest sentence. Why because a they don't”
00:28:16“Speaker 1: you know, get me a robe hold on, stop, you know, Speaker 1: And I run over and I answer the phone and Speaker 1: it is the President and he let me know himself Speaker 1: that he was going to release Alice, and he was Speaker 1: signing the paper right then and there, and I just”
00:47:57“Speaker 4: everybody knows it was the three white guys that did it. Speaker 4: There's overwhelming evidence of that, and those guys were free Speaker 4: to go out, and. Speaker 1: There's like, I mean, the guy's girlfriend called and said, Speaker 1: I mean everyone that makes no sense, Like, wouldn't the”
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