#469 Jason Flom with Calvin Buari

#469 Jason Flom with Calvin Buari

In the early 1990s, Calvin Buari was a well-known crack cocaine distributor in the Bronx, NY. In 1992, a disgruntled associate who had recently shot Calvin implicated him in the murder of Elijah and Salhaddin Harris. Calvin was charged with the double murder and six rival drug dealers testified against him at his 1995 murder trial. No physical evidence connected him to the crime. A jury took only two hours to convict Calvin of murder, and he was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.
But he never stopped fighting for his freedom, and the case took a turn with a 2003 affidavit from the key witness against him who confessed to the crime, stating that he “pinned this double murder on Calvin Buari because of a dispute between Calvin and me, and because I wanted complete control of my drug spot.”
Journalist Steve Fishman followed Calvin’s story for seven years and eyewitnesses, first interviewed by Fishman, testified in court in 2015 that Calvin was not the murderer. By May 2017, a judge overturned the conviction and ordered 46-year-old Calvin Buari freed. In this episode, Calvin is joined by Steve Fishman, who chronicles his journey for justice in the hit podcast Empire on Blood.

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#021 Jason Flom with Floyd Bledsoe and Cornelius Dupree (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017)

#021 Jason Flom with Floyd Bledsoe and Cornelius Dupree (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017)

This special edition of Wrongful Conviction was recorded at the 2017 Innocence Network Conference in San Diego, CA, where 170 exonerees and 750 members of the innocence movement gathered to honor newl...

24 Huhti 201758min

#020 Jason Flom with The San Antonio Four

#020 Jason Flom with The San Antonio Four

In 1995, 20-year-old Elizabeth Ramirez and three of her friends —Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez — were indicted on charges of sexually molesting Ms. Ramirez’s 7-year-old and 9-yea...

17 Huhti 201744min

#019 Jason Flom with Franky Carrillo

#019 Jason Flom with Franky Carrillo

On January 18, 1991, six teenage boys were standing on a curb talking in front of a house in the Los Angeles, CA suburb of Lynwood. Donald Sarpy, the father of one of the boys, stepped onto the drivew...

10 Huhti 201742min

#018 Jason Flom with Tony Wright

#018 Jason Flom with Tony Wright

Tony Wright endured two trials and 25 years in prison before a jury found him not guilty for the rape, sodomy and murder of Louise Talley, a 77-year-old woman in Philadelphia. Tony, who was only 20 ye...

3 Huhti 201739min

#017 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Jason Baldwin

#017 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Jason Baldwin

At 16 years old, Jason Baldwin along with Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley – known as the West Memphis Three – was convicted in 1994 of killing three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, AK. There was ...

27 Maalis 201749min

#016 Jason Flom with Kirk Bloodsworth

#016 Jason Flom with Kirk Bloodsworth

Kirk Bloodsworth, an honorably discharged former Marine, was the first person sentenced to death and subsequently exonerated by DNA testing. He was 22 years old in 1984 when he was arrested for the ra...

20 Maalis 201753min

#015 Jason Flom with Dennis Maher

#015 Jason Flom with Dennis Maher

On November 16, 1983, a 28-year-old woman was attacked and sexually assaulted by an unknown male as she was walking home from work in Lowell, MA. The following evening, a 23-year-old woman was attacke...

13 Maalis 201755min

#014 Jason Flom with Jon-Adrian Velazquez

#014 Jason Flom with Jon-Adrian Velazquez

Jon-Adrian “J.J.” Velazquez was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life for the 1998 shooting death of Albert Ward, a retired police officer who owned and operated an illeg...

6 Maalis 20171h 9min

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