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The Case of Terry Ceasor
📻 Episode #409
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 23, 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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00:04:49“Speaker 4: father of this child. So I went through everything proven Speaker 4: that I wasn't the father. I took a DNA test. Speaker 1: But unbeknownst to you, your name had been on this Speaker 1: central registry in Michigan ever since nineteen ninety five, just Speaker 1: for having been mentioned in the same breath of another”
00:18:20“Speaker 1: So the state had this in the bag, but presented Speaker 1: the child's mother, Cheryl as well, with the assumption that Speaker 1: raising the specter of her lie in the emergency room Speaker 1: would seal the deal. Speaker 3: Cheryl did testify for the prosecution, but her testimony was”
00:30:50“Speaker 2: Defies all reason. Speaker 1: And we've covered Saint Clair County only one time before Speaker 1: running into this same kind of maddening logic defying issues. Speaker 1: And of course I'm talking about Temwajinkenzu, and we're going Speaker 1: to have that incredible episode linked in the bio.”
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