The Innocence Podcast

Dec 06 2024 25 ep. 33 mins 73
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Imagine being jailed for for a crime you did not commit... We explore the stories of people who were wrongly accused and convicted.

  True Crime  Society & Culture
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24: The Falsely Accused Football Star

Dec 06 2024 52 mins  
Brian Banks was a high school football star on track to make the NFL - until he was falsely accused of rape. He spent over five years in prison and served five years on parole - until his accuser was secretly recorded admitting the truth. Brian’s comeback story - including finally playing in the NFL - was turned into a Hollywood movie. He is interviewed by Brady Haran in this

23: The Godfather of Innocence

Nov 12 2024 42 mins  
Barry Scheck might be best known for being part of OJ Simpson's winning defence team. But his work as the godfather of The Innocence Project has had worldwide impact for thousands of people who have been wrongly convicted. He changed the way that DNA was used to prosecute and prove innocence. Now he’s devoting much of this time to looking at the ways AI can be a force for good

22: Art Not Evidence

Oct 29 2024 23 mins  
Would you ever have thought that the music you listen to could be used to convict you of a crime? The organisation Art Not Evidence wants to stop the use of creative and artistic expression as evidence in criminal trials. In this podcast we hear from two people involved in that campaign - Kier Monteith KC and Elli Brazill. Both Keir and Elli believe there has been an alarming in

21: The Smells of Freedom

Oct 16 2024 40 mins  
Dean Gillispie served 20 years in prison for rape and kidnap - crimes he didn't commit. It was Mark Godsey at the Ohio Innocence Project who helped free him. Dean and Mark talk to Kylie about the case, the hurdles they encountered, and the impact 20 years behind bars. Dean was recently awarded $45m in compensation - but has he seen that money? The Innocence Podcast is brought t

20: Joint Enterprise

Oct 08 2024 34 mins  
Dr Felicity Gerry is a star of the legal profession. She saved a woman in the Philippines moments before she was due to be executed and helped free a man wrongly convicted of murder in Australia. Dr Gerry’s main passion is challenging the law around joint enterprise - where someone can be jointly convicted of the crime of another. She persuaded the UK Supreme Court this can onl

19: Another Level of Ridiculousness

Sep 18 2024 45 mins  
Nurse Kimberley Long was 27 when she found the body of her boyfriend Ozzy in their living room - he’d been brutally murdered. She was sent to prison in California for a crime she didn't commit. When The Innocence Project's Justin Brooks heard about her case, he knew she was innocent. There was no blood splatter on her clothing and the victim's time of death didn't match up to w

18: The 'Scapegoat' Banker

Aug 28 2024 46 mins  
Tom Hayes says he'll never give up fighting to clear his name. The former banker was sentenced to 11 years for fixing key interest rates. Tom claims he was a “scapegoat” - a target for the anger at bankers in the financial crisis. He has now been granted permission to appeal against his criminal conviction at the UK’s top court. Tom talks to Kylie about how he went from l

17: The San Antonio Four

Aug 05 2024 42 mins  
Anna Vasquez was one of the so called 'San Antonio Four' - four women who were wrongly convicted in 1994 of the sexual assault of two young girls. It came in the wake of more than a decade of hysteria over claims of satanic abuse of children. After the Innocence Project became involved, and uncovered new information, Anna was finally released in 2012. In an emotional interview,

16: Fighting for the Sub-Postmasters

Jul 24 2024 40 mins  
If you’ve seen any of the Post Office Inquiry that’s currently taking place in the UK, you will have heard Edward Henry KC and Flora Page. They are two of the legal team fighting for those wrongly convicted in what’s been described as the biggest miscarriage of justice in the UK. Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly accused of stealing money, when in fact a faulty comput

15: Pregnant and Jailed - another victim of the Post Office Scandal

Jul 15 2024 25 mins  
Seema Misra was two months pregnant when she was sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit. She was one of hundreds of sub postmasters wrongly accused of stealing money from the Post Office - when, in fact, a faulty computer system was to blame. She tells Kylie about how things started to go wrong from Day 1 of owning her Post Office. She also emotionally speaks about the tol