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The Case of Valentino Dixon
📻 Episode #101
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 06, 2019
About This Episode
Although Valentino Dixon has never played golf, he wouldn’t have survived 27 years in prison–for a crime he did not commit–without it. A few years into his sentence of 39 years to life, Valentino returned to his childhood passion of art to help him cope. He began sketching landscapes of golf courses with color pencils.…
The Case
Although Valentino Dixon has never played golf, he wouldn’t have survived 27 years in prison–for a crime he did not commit–without it. A few years into his sentence of 39 years to life, Valentino returned to his childhood passion of art to help him cope. He began sketching landscapes of golf courses with color pencils. His breathtakingly detailed sketches led to a profile in *Golf Digest *magazine. That article in Golf Digest, helped bring other media attention to Valentino’s case and prompted students at Georgetown to help appeal his sentence. On September 19, 2018, Valentino Dixon was released after the court determined that he, in fact, was not responsible for the murder of 17-year-old Torriano Jackson on a Buffalo street corner in 1991. In this compelling interview, Valentino shares how his art served as a shield in prison, protecting his mind and comforting his soul.
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00:07:30“Speaker 1: he said that he couldn't control the weapon and it Speaker 1: just well automatic weapon. Speaker 5: Yeah, from where when I ran down the street towards Speaker 5: my car, I actually turned around and the shooting was Speaker 5: still going on. You know, Lamore was doing the ball”
00:27:21“Speaker 5: that stuff. You know. Around the seventh year of being Speaker 5: in prison, I have an uncle who named Ronnie Bryant. Speaker 5: He sent me some our supplies. He begged me to Speaker 5: start drawing again, you know, and even then I kept saying, no,”
00:47:00“Speaker 1: out of her too, I mean for your kids to Speaker 1: have to because of course, when when we talk about Speaker 1: this a lot, when someone like yourself is wrongfully convicted, Speaker 5: You, right, they suffered. Speaker 1: Yeah, they grew up without their dad, and they could”
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