S12 Ep110: Jason Flom with Johnny Berry
On August 10th, 1994, a man and a woman were in a van in West Philadelphia, when two males approached. One blocked the passenger door, while the other shot the man before he could get out of the van. The witness identified 16 year old Johnny Berry from a photo, but rescinded the ID at a preliminary hearing. Inexplicably, Johnny was re-arrested and sent back to juvenile detention, where he met T...
30m Jan 05, 2022
30m
S13 Ep1: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: James Anderson - Preview
James Anderson and Jason discuss the shortcomings of public defense, sentencing disparities, and the RAND Corporation's work on racial equity in our criminal legal system. https://www.rand.org/ https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convictions Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom is a production of Lava For Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...
1m Jan 04, 2022
1m
S12 Ep108: Jason Flom and Kim Kardashian on Julius Jones - UPDATE
On July 28th, 1999, Julius Jones was playing monopoly with his family and soon to be a sophomore on an academic scholarship at the University of Oklahoma. That night, a man named Paul Howell was shot for his GMC Suburban in the nearby suburb of Edmund, Oklahoma. A few days later, Julius was taken into police custody even though the eyewitness description should have excluded him as a suspect. 3...
40m Dec 29, 2021
40m
S12 Ep107: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Mike Novogratz Re-Release - Preview
One look at the usual dysfunction of our criminal legal system drew the attention and weight of this driven financier and philanthropist to engage and strategize for the biggest return on investment.  To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.galaxygives.com/ https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convictions Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom is a production of Lava For Good Podcast...
1m Dec 28, 2021
1m
S12 Ep106: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Civil rights activist, author, and podcaster DeRay McKesson on police reform
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 4. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom feed. Please search and subscribe to be the first to hear them. DeRay McKesson joins Jason to talk about his journey from school administrator to activist. His work with Campaign Zero is bringing real reforms to police departments all o...
32m Dec 24, 2021
32m
S12 Ep105: Jason Flom with Stefon Morant - UPDATE
On October 11th, 1990, former New Haven, CT alderman Ricardo Turner and his lover were shot dead in their bed. Detective Vincent Raucci knew just who to pin it on, a small-time dealer named Scott Lewis. To make the case, Raucci attempted to extract false testimony from Scott’s friend Stefon Morant. When Stefon refused to go along with the scheme, Raucci pinned the murder on Stefon as well, even...
43m Dec 22, 2021
43m
S12 Ep104: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Katie Schaffer - Preview
Katie Schaffer teams up with Jason to discuss educating prisoners, bail reform and making our penal system more humane. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.communityalternatives.org/ https://envisionfreedom.org/ https://justiceandopportunity.org/ https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convictions Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom is a production of Lava For Good Podcasts in ...
1m Dec 21, 2021
1m
S12 Ep103: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Alexander McLean on providing greater access to justice and the rule of law throughout Africa and beyond
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 4. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom feed. Please search and subscribe to be the first to hear them. Alexander McLean joins Jason to talk about his work with Justice Defenders. Justice Defenders is a non-profit that works to provide prisoners and prison officers with legal...
24m Dec 17, 2021
24m
S12 Ep102: Jason Flom with Thomas Haynesworth
In just the first month of 1984, five women from the ages of 18 to 20 were sexually assaulted in East Richmond, Virginia. One victim saw an 18 year old named Thomas Haynesworth while he was walking to his local grocery store and called the police naming him as her attacker. Thomas was eventually convicted for three of the sexual assault incidents and sentenced to a total of 74 years in prison. ...
39m Dec 15, 2021
39m
S12 Ep101: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Kris Brown - Preview
Kris Brown, President of Brady United chats with Jason about the impact of gun violence, the NRA and the legacy of Jim and Sarah Brady. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.bradyunited.org/ https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convictions Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1. See omnystudio.com/listener...
1m Dec 14, 2021
1m
S12 Ep100: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: John Fetterman, Lt. Governor of PA, on criminal legal system reform
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 4. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom feed. Please search and subscribe to be the first to hear them. John Fetterman, Lt. Governor of PA, joins Jason to talk about using compassion, mercy, and second chances to reform our criminal justice system. To learn more and get invo...
27m Dec 10, 2021
27m
S12 Ep99: Jason Flom with Amanda Brumfield
Amanda Brumfield, the estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton, was blamed for the death of her best friend’s daughter. On October 3, 2008, 1 year old Olivia Garcia had been sleeping in her playpen at Amanda’s house, when she woke up at around midnight and attempted to crawl out of her crib. Olivia fell from the rails and landed head first on the floor. She died a few hours later at the h...
36m Dec 08, 2021
36m
S12 Ep98: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Alex Duran - Preview
Alex Duran joins Jason to share with us his transformation from inmate to criminal legal system reformer. He now manages a $20 million annual fund on behalf of Galaxy Gives dedicated to ending mass incarceration in the US.  To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.galaxygives.com/ https://www.galaxygives.com/fellowship billy@galaxygives.com https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convi...
1m Dec 07, 2021
1m
S12 Ep97: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Static on guiding at risk youth
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 3. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom feed. Please search and subscribe to be the first to hear them. Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Static join Jason to talk about their work with Road Recovery, an entertainment industry-driven non-profit organization dedicated to helping youn...
31m Dec 03, 2021
31m
S12 Ep96: Jason Flom with Tyrone Noling
On April 5th, 1990, Bernhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, were shot to death in their Atwater, OH home with a .25 caliber gun. Miles away, 18-year-old Tyrone Noling was involved in two non-violent robberies – in one, he stole a .25 caliber gun and in the second, it accidentally discharged, hurting no one. This gun, however, was not the Hartig murder weapon, and despite other, more viable suspects...
37m Dec 01, 2021
37m
S12 Ep95: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: DeRay McKesson - Preview
DeRay McKesson joins Jason to talk about his journey from school administrator to activist. His work with Campaign Zero is bringing real reforms to police departments all over the country and helping to reduce police violence. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://campaignzero.org/ https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convictions Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom is a production o...
1m Nov 30, 2021
1m
S12 Ep94: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Ashley Judd on the importance of empowering women and girls
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 2. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom feed. Please search and subscribe to be the first to hear them. Ashley Judd joins Jason to share her journey from actor to activist and the importance of empowering women and girls all over the world. To learn more and get involved, go...
29m Nov 29, 2021
29m
S12 Ep93: Jason Flom with Mark Denny
On December 20, 1987, at about 2 am, two masked men forced their way into a Burger King in Brooklyn, New York, as employees were closing. A third man entered the restaurant at some point, and they blindfolded and raped an 18-year-old female employee and forced a male employee to participate. The three assailants fled with $3,000 in cash. Both employees reported the crime as involving three assa...
34m Nov 24, 2021
34m
S12 Ep92: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Alexander McLean - Preview
Alexander McLean joins Jason to talk about his work with Justice Defenders. Justice Defenders is a non-profit that works to provide prisoners and prison officers with legal education, training, and even law degrees to help facilitate legal processes. To learn more and get involve, visit: https://www.justice-defenders.org/ https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convictions Righteous Convictions w...
3m Nov 23, 2021
3m
S12 Ep91: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Sir Richard Branson and Celia Ouellette on abolishing the death penalty
The is a re-release of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, Season 2, Episode 1. New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom feed. Please search and subscribe to be the first to hear them. Sir Richard Branson and Celia Ouellette join Jason to talk about their plans for the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice, abolishing the death penalty, and criminal...
27m Nov 19, 2021
27m
S12 Ep90: Jason Flom with Dennis and Lee Horton
Brothers, Dennis and Lee Horton, were having a pleasant Memorial Day in 1993 until they decided to visit their father in North Philadelphia and ran into a childhood friend, Robert Leaf. Unbeknownst to the Hortons, Robert Leaf had committed an armed robbery turned homicide earlier that day. Shortly after Robert joined the brothers in their car, police pulled them over. All three were arrested an...
38m Nov 17, 2021
38m
S12 Ep89: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: John Fetterman, Lt. Governor of PA, on criminal justice reform
John Fetterman, Lt. Governor of PA, joins Jason to talk about using compassion, mercy, and second chances to reform our criminal justice system. To learn more and get involved, go to: https://johnfetterman.com/ https://lavaforgood.com/righteous-convictions Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1. See omnystudio.com/l...
3m Nov 16, 2021
3m
S12 Ep88: Jason Flom with Vincent Simmons
In early May of 1977, Keith Laborde and his 14 year old twin cousins, Karen and Sharon Sanders, allegedly picked up a hitchhiking black man at a gas station in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. About 2 weeks later, when asked about a scratch on his neck, Keith Laborde and the twins told a story about this armed hitchhiker who allegedly forced Laborde into the trunk and raped both girls. Despite not ...
37m Nov 10, 2021
37m
S12 Ep87: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Static - Preview
Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Static join Jason to talk about their work with Road Recovery, an entertainment industry-driven non-profit organization dedicated to helping young people battle addiction and other adversities by empowering at-risk youth from all backgrounds to face their struggles, while teaching them comprehensive life skills. Learn more and get involved: https://lavaforgood.com/r...
2m Nov 09, 2021
2m
S12 Ep86: Jason Flom with Ray Krone
On the morning of December 29th, 1991, the body of a 36 year old woman was found nude in the men’s restroom of the bar where she worked in Phoenix, Arizona. She had been assaulted and fatally stabbed. No semen was left behind. With DNA testing in its infancy, serology could only show that any blood or saliva at the crime scene matched the victim’s blood type. There were, however, what appeared ...
42m Nov 03, 2021
42m
S12 Ep85: Jason Flom with Ronald Jacobsen
On January 6th, 1990, a 21 year old woman was working at a convenience store in Covington, Georgia. At around 4am, this woman, who we'll refer to as "BT," was abducted, forced into a truck, and sexually assaulted until she managed to escape 90 minutes later. Despite BT’s insistence that she hadn’t known the perpetrator, police ultimately persuaded her to believe a story that her ex-boyfriend Ro...
37m Oct 27, 2021
37m
S12 Ep84: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom: Sir Richard Branson and Celia Ouellette - Preview
Sir Richard Branson and Celia Ouellette join Jason to talk about their plans for the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice, abolishing the death penalty, and criminal justice reform. Hear the entire episode, as well as all of Season 2 of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom in its new feed. Search, find, and follow Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom wherever you listen. https://lavaf...
2m Oct 26, 2021
2m
S12 Ep83: Jason Flom with Carlton Roman
On March 16, 1989, Lloyd Witter and Jomo Kenyatta sustained several gunshot wounds at a residence in Jamaica, Queens.  Witter died from his injuries.  Paul Anderson, who also lived at the residence, was found handcuffed near Witter’s body. Under questioning, both Kenyatta and Anderson provided at least a half dozen different versions of the story that finally landed on Carlton Roman as the gunm...
36m Oct 20, 2021
36m
S12 Ep82: Wrongful Conviction - Keith Washington
On January 24th, 2007, Keith Washington, a police officer and former Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, was home with his wife and 6 year old daughter while they awaited a delivery from Marlo Furniture store. Two men, Robert White and Brandon Clark, arrived with the furniture, and while showing them to the master bedroom, Keith realized that White had broken away and was snooping in his daugh...
41m Oct 13, 2021
41m
S12 Ep81: Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom - Season 2 Trailer
Season 2 of Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom launches Tuesday, October 26th. Please listen in as music executive, philanthropist, and activist Jason Flom converses with a diverse who's-who of advocates at the forefront of critical issues that will impact our future. Guests include Sir Richard Branson, Ashley Judd, Alexander McLean, Daryl “DMC” McDaniels and many more. His discussions with ...
1m Oct 12, 2021
1m
S12 Ep80: Wrongful Conviction - Atif Rafay
Atif Rafay was a thriving, brilliant, and happy student who had just finished his freshman year at Cornell University. On a weekend trip in July of 1994, while visiting his family in Bellevue, Washington, Atif Rafay’s mother, father, and sister were all brutally murdered in their home. Investigators targeted Atif and his best friend, Sebastian Burns, because they were ‘acting strangely.’ Despit...
43m Oct 06, 2021
43m
S12 Ep79: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Brendan Dassey Re-Release
This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired on October 2, 2019. In 2006, 16 year old Wisconsin special education student Brendan Dassey gave a videotaped confession to the murder of a young woman named Teresa Halbach.  Brendan recanted his confession immediately, but was still convicted and sentenced to life in prison even though there was no evidence connecting him to the crime a...
42m Oct 02, 2021
42m
S12 Ep78: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Eric Riddick
On November 6th, 1991, William Catlett was shot and killed on a street corner in West Philadelphia. Nearly all eyewitnesses identified a man named Edward “P-nut” Johnson as the shooter; however, instead of following those leads, investigators coerced a man named Shawn Stevenson to blame Catlett’s friend, Eric Riddick. Eric was told about Stevenson’s 1999 recantation four years late in 2003, whe...
32m Sep 29, 2021
32m
S12 Ep77: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Joe D’Ambrosio
19 year old Anthony Klann was stabbed to death in Cleveland, Ohio in September of 1988. Two men who had a lot to gain worked with detectives to spin a narrative, claiming two other men, Joe D'Ambrosio and Michael Keenan, committed the murder on September 22nd; however, Anthony Klann was still very much alive the following night. Learn more and get involved at:  https://actionnetwork.org/petiti...
45m Sep 22, 2021
45m
S12 Ep76: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Jarrett Adams and Dimitri Henley
3 Chicago teenagers went to a party at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where embarrassment turned a consensual encounter into a far-fetched gang rape accusation wrapped up in well-worn racist tropes. Three radically different outcomes for each young man only served to underscore the absurdity of this tragic failure of our justice system. Jarrett Adams’ book Redeeming Justice:  https://w...
39m Sep 15, 2021
39m
S12 Ep75: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Anthony Sims
Anthony Sims is going into the 24th year of a 25 to life sentence based on a narrative constructed by his former friend Julius Graves. The only witness that was neither a friend nor family member of Graves continues to tell the story of Anthony’s innocence (and Graves’s guilt) to this day. Learn more and get involved at:  https://www.freeanthonysims.com/ https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.c...
48m Sep 08, 2021
48m
S12 Ep74: Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Emerson Stevens BREAKING NEWS
Sometimes when detectives can't get a confession they'll settle for a something else Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin explore the story of Emerson Stevens, a fisherman from Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. When a young mother was found murdered, it seemed all the evidence pointed to Emerson, until the case fell apart when a key witness was convicted of lying about the case and a forensic test techniqu...
32m Sep 01, 2021
32m
S12 Ep73: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Patrick Pursley UPDATED
In this live audience recording at ComplexCon Chicago 2019, Patrick Pursley tells us how a purposely false identification, a coerced and immediately recanted false statement, and false expert testimony led to his wrongful conviction. Amazingly, Patrick Pursley changed a law from inside prison in order to obtain the ballistic testing necessary to set himself free. His fight continues on the outs...
35m Aug 25, 2021
35m
S12 Ep72: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Julius Jones / Kim Kardashian UPDATED
On July 28th, 1999, Julius Jones was playing monopoly with his family and soon to be a sophomore on an academic scholarship at the University of Oklahoma. That night, a man named Paul Howell was shot for his GMC Suburban in the nearby suburb of Edmund, Oklahoma. A few days later, Julius was awakened and dragged out of bed, barefoot and shirtless, and taken into police custody as a murder suspec...
41m Aug 18, 2021
41m
S12 Ep71: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Kevin Dykes - UPDATED
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 14, 2020. In June 1986, Kevin Dykes witnessed the attempted murder of 2 people and the actual murder of a 3rd person in his neighborhood in Compton, CA. Kevin decided to go to the police, partly out of fear of reprisals by the killers who knew he witnessed the murder. The prosecutors then used his knowledge of the crimes that he wit...
39m Aug 11, 2021
39m
S12 Ep70: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - James King
James King has been sitting in prison for almost 25 years for a rape that he adamantly maintains he did not commit. His conviction strongly relied on the inconsistent and contradictory word of a then 13-year old girl who was allegedly hiding her inappropriate relationship with a neighbor twice her age. Despite the lack of material evidence, changed testimonies for the prosecution, and the credi...
40m Aug 04, 2021
40m
S12 Ep69: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - John Jones
At about 9:40AM on March 19th, 2010, John Jones woke to find his daughter Jada unresponsive and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to the hospital where she remained until July 16th, 2010, when she was removed from life support and passed away. Based on the junk science of shaken baby syndrome, John was convicted of murdering his daughter and sentenced to 15 years to life.  Greg Glod, Criminal Justi...
46m Jul 28, 2021
46m
S12 Ep68: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Troy Coleman
On September 26th, 1989, Kevin Jones and a friend drove to an apartment with $40,000 cash to buy cocaine. Jones went inside, while the friend waited down the block. Almost two hours later, the friend saw Jones’ car approaching him, but Jones was not in it. Jones was later found dead, wrapped up, beaten and shot, in the trunk of that car. Troy Coleman, the owner of the apartment, was 60 miles aw...
42m Jul 21, 2021
42m
S12 Ep67: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Joe Bryan
Joe Bryan was a high school principal, and his wife Mickey Bryan was a 4th-grade teacher in the small town of Clifton, TX. On Tuesday, October 15th, 1985, Mickey did not show up for work. Her body was discovered later that day in her bedroom. Joe was 120 miles away in Austin at a conference at that time. Prosecutors came up with a theory that Joe drove back to Clifton, killed his wife, and retu...
44m Jul 14, 2021
44m
S12 Ep66: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Curtis Flowers
On July 16, 1996, the owner of Tardy Furniture Company and three employees were found shot and killed. Curtis Flowers, who previously worked at the store, was charged with four counts of capital murder. Even though no physical evidence linked him to the crime, District Attorney Doug Evans used coerced and incentivized witnesses and racially discriminatory jury selection to send Curtis to Death ...
41m Jul 07, 2021
41m
S12 Ep65: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Marcus Wiggins
At age 13, Marcus Wiggins became one of many young black men to be tortured into a false statement by sadistic Chicago PD Detective Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew.” When an eyewitness foiled their first frame job, Marcus’ mother Carolyn successfully sued and exposed these men, leading Burge’s underlings to embark on a vendetta to frame Marcus Wiggins for murder. After another failed...
40m Jun 30, 2021
40m
S12 Ep64: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Richard Glossip
On January 7th, 1997, the owner of the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City was beaten to death with a baseball bat at his motel by admitted killer, thief, and methamphetamine addict Justin Sneed. Mr. Sneed, fearful of the death penalty, falsely accused his boss, Richard Glossip, of masterminding the murder for hire plot in exchange for leniency. Now, Richard sits on death row in Oklahoma where his...
53m Jun 23, 2021
53m
S12 Ep63: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Ronnie Long - UPDATED
Concord, NC police were so motivated to stick Ronnie Long with a rape charge - which carried a death sentence at the time - that the mountain of physical evidence collected at the scene was disappeared when it didn’t match him. Learn more and get involved at:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/welcomeronniehome https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom Wrongful Conviction with Jason ...
48m Jun 16, 2021
48m
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Cooperating)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs on how to safely respond to encounters with the police. The PSAs cover a variety of different encounters and may save your life. Please listen and share. The information and opinions shared here are not intended to be, and should not be construed as, lega...
2m Jun 11, 2021
2m
S12 Ep62: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Melissa Lucio
On February 17th, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to a residence where they found an unresponsive two-year-old child who subsequently died. Evidence of abuse led to the arrest and conviction of Melissa Lucio, the child’s mother. She was sent to death row where she remains to this day. The DA on the case has since been found to be corrupt and is himself serving 13 years in prison for accepting ...
51m Jun 09, 2021
51m