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Podcast: Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Episode: #292 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Eric Blackmon
Description: On July 4, 2002, two men shot and killed 36-year-old Tony Cox outside a restaurant in Chicago, IL. Suspecting the murder was gang-related, police arrested Eric Blackmon. After claiming Blackmon was selected from a lineup by eyewitnesses, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Guest Host Patrick Pursley was wrongfully convicted for a 1993 murder in Rockford, IL, for which he spent nearly 24 years in prison. Remarkably, he ended up writing the law that set him free.
Patrick and Eric spent over a decade together in Stateville Correctional Center in Cook County, Illinois. They...