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The Case of Ronald Simpson-Bey
📻 Episode #44
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Dec 04, 2017
About This Episode
Ronald Simpson-Bey was a jailhouse lawyer who got his conviction reversed for prosecutorial misconduct and subsequently won his freedom after serving 27 years in Michigan prison. In 1986, Ronald was convicted of assault with intent to murder and possession of a firearm and sentenced to 50 years in prison. While in prison he became familiar…
The Case
Ronald Simpson-Bey was a jailhouse lawyer who got his conviction reversed for prosecutorial misconduct and subsequently won his freedom after serving 27 years in Michigan prison. In 1986, Ronald was convicted of assault with intent to murder and possession of a firearm and sentenced to 50 years in prison. While in prison he became familiar with the legal system and began assisting other inmates with their appeals as a jailhouse lawyer. Eventually, his work led to his own release twenty-seven years later. Since being freed, Ronald Simpson-Bey has worked tirelessly to advance prison reform efforts, most recently through JustLeadershipUSA, an organization with the ambitious goal to halve the nation’s correctional population by 2030. In this episode, he is joined by Glenn Martin, former President and Founder of JustLeadershipUSA.
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00:05:45“Speaker 3: he did. Yeah, you think you'd remember that. You think Speaker 3: how did they get you in their in their crosshairs Speaker 3: in the first place. Speaker 6: Well, the case happened on a particular day in October Speaker 6: nineteen eighty five. My buddies and I were driving around Flinch,”
00:21:39“Speaker 3: And then another tragedy occurred, as if you hadn't been Speaker 3: tested enough, right with the terrible, unimaginable circumstance of your Speaker 3: parents and then being wrongfully incarcerated, and then the only Speaker 3: other worst thing that can happen to a person happened Speaker 3: to you as well.”
00:37:11“Speaker 3: glued to their face, right, and everything else that goes Speaker 3: with the technology, everything, everything is completely upside down from Speaker 3: when you went in, for sure, because that let's facing Speaker 3: that's almost three decades. I'm sure some people that are Speaker 3: listening haven't even been alive that long, right, And so, well,”
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