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The Case of Terry Ceasor
📻 Episode #352
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 27, 2023
About This Episode
On October 3, 2004, in Port Huron, MI, Terry Ceasor was at home alone with his girlfriend Cheryl’s 1 year old son, Brenden. Terry and Brenden had been playing a game that consisted of Terry chasing Brenden behind the couch when Terry briefly stepped away from the room to use the bathroom. After he left…
The Case
On October 3, 2004, in Port Huron, MI, Terry Ceasor was at home alone with his girlfriend Cheryl’s 1 year old son, Brenden. Terry and Brenden had been playing a game that consisted of Terry chasing Brenden behind the couch when Terry briefly stepped away from the room to use the bathroom. After he left the room, Terry heard a loud thud and found Brenden unconscious on the living room floor. The medical professionals at the hospital believed that Brenden was a victim of Shaken Baby Syndrome and Terry was subsequently convicted of child abuse and sentenced to 2 to 15 years in prison. Jason talks to Terry Ceasor and Dave Moran, Terry's attorney.
https://michigan.law.umich.edu/academics/experiential-learning/clinics/michigan-innocence-clinic-0
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/269-jason-flom-with-temujin-kensu/
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/172-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-shaken-baby-syndrome/
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00:04:46“Speaker 1: Right, And as we so often see in rompic conviction cases, Speaker 1: is that sometimes the police are motivated by someone's criminal record, Speaker 1: and in this case, a perceived criminal record. Now, like Speaker 1: you said, you didn't find out about this in twenty”
00:17:27“Speaker 2: who insists that there's really no other explanation for these Speaker 2: injuries or the lawyer who's not a scientist, not a Speaker 2: doctor who tries to poke holes in that theory, and Speaker 2: so unless the expert is exceptionally bad, cross examination will Speaker 2: very rarely poke enough holes in an expert's certainty to”
00:29:29“Speaker 2: And we end up in front of a successor judge Speaker 2: in Saint Clair County port Hereon, who now says, well, Speaker 2: you know, I'm just not so sure that Terry was Speaker 2: really poor, and so we ended up having to hold Speaker 2: a whole evidentiary hearing to establish that Terry was too”
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