#077 Jason Flom and Lara Bazelon with Tony Wright

#077 Jason Flom and Lara Bazelon with Tony Wright

In her new book Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction, Lara Bazelon makes a powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the innocence movement so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal. Tony Wright is one of those exonerees. Tony 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. He was only 20 years old when he was arrested in 1993, signed a confession after being beaten and threatened by the interrogating detectives, and was sentenced to life in prison—he narrowly escaped the death penalty after the jury voted against it 7 to 5. Later DNA testing of the rape kit not only excluded Tony as a suspect, but also identified Ronnie Byrd as the real assailant. On August 23, 2016, Tony Wright was exonerated, and he became the 344th DNA exoneree in the nation.

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#429 Jason Flom with Greg Brown

#429 Jason Flom with Greg Brown

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#428 Maggie Freleng with Gary Williams

#428 Maggie Freleng with Gary Williams

In February of 1999, 86-year-old Rosemary “Mama Rose” Williams arrived at a hospital in Queens NY, claiming that she’d been raped at knifepoint. She named her 36-year-old grandson, Gary, as the assail...

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#427 Jason Flom with Lamont Hunter

#427 Jason Flom with Lamont Hunter

January 18, 2006, 3-year-old Trustin Blue tumbled down his basement stairs in Cincinnati, OH, became unresponsive, and later brain dead. Trustin had been under the supervision of his mother’s boyfrien...

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#426 Maggie Freleng with Jason Walton

#426 Maggie Freleng with Jason Walton

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#425 Jason Flom with Larry Smith Jr.

#425 Jason Flom with Larry Smith Jr.

In the early morning of March 24, 1994, 20-year-old Kenneth Hayes was getting out of his car when someone emerged from the bushes, chased him down, and fatally shot him in front of his home in Detroit...

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#424 Maggie Freleng with Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance

#424 Maggie Freleng with Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance

In February of 1993, 70-year-old Anthony Dolff was found murdered in his home in Saskatchewan, Canada. That morning, indigenous sisters Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were picked up by police. The two ...

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#423 Jason Flom with Fabian Santiago

#423 Jason Flom with Fabian Santiago

Several shots were fired from an alley toward a group of friends on the night of January 16, 1993, in Chicago, IL. One person was fatally shot and two others were wounded. Chicago detectives brought 1...

1 Feb 202435min

#422 Maggie Freleng with Angela Garcia

#422 Maggie Freleng with Angela Garcia

In November of 1999, a fire broke out in Angela Garcia’s home in Cleveland, OH. Angela jumped out of a second-story window and ran for help, but her two young daughters died of smoke inhalation. Sever...

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