Just Unjust

Just Unjust - Antonio Jerido

This episode covers the wrongful conviction of Antonio Jerido in Alabama and the mountain of misconduct that occurred in his case. On the evening of January 18, 2009, police were called to the site of a shooting of two people, Cornelius Gibbs and Daryl Benson, outside of a home in Watumpka, Alabama. When police arrived, Gibbs was found deceased from two gunshot wounds to the chest, and Benson was critically injured and transported to a local hospital. Benson, the sole survivor, gave a statement to police that at the time of the shooting it was dark and he did not see the perpetrators and he had absolutely no idea who shot him and Gibbs. A couple of days after the shooting, other people came forward to state that yet another person, Keon Butler, had been involved in the shooting. During police questioning, Keon claimed that he had never been in the area that evening and that Antonio had called him that night and admitted to doing the shooting. Cell phone records later showed that Keon lied about his whereabouts that evening, and was in fact in the area. Two other people who quickly became co defendants - Roderick Foster and Tremont Turpin. Both of whom also made conflicting claims to police about what happened that night. However, they both admitted to being in a car with Keon Butler and another person. Foster and Turpin told police they stopped the car in the neighborhood of the shooting. Keon and another person got out. They heard shots fired. Then Keon got back in the car holding a gun and told them to drive to another city. Along the way, they stopped and threw the gun in the river. After these initial statements were made to police, Antonio's story becomes a nightmare that he is still living to this day, chock full of police and prosecutorial misconduct. His case should have never gotten to where it did, let alone resulting in a sentence of life without parole in an Alabama prison.

Just Unjust - Tracy Zornes Episode 3

This is episode 3 of our multi-part special on the case of Tracy Zornes who was convicted of the double homicide of two of his friends in Moorhead Minnesota and for which no hard evidence against him exists. In this episode, Tracy takes us through his multiple conviction appeals and a new post conviction investigation that uncovered a new alternate possible perpetrator.

Just Unjust - Tracy Zornes Episode 2

This is episode 2 of our multi part series on the wrongful conviction case of Tracy Zornes who was convicted of the brutal double homicide of two of his friends with no hard evidence against him. In this episode, Tracy takes us through his arrest, pre-trial detention, and the trial that ended with him being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

Just Unjust - Tracy Zornes Episode 1

In the early morning hours of February 19th, 2010, a fire broke out an apartment complex in Moorhead, Minnesota. After battling the blaze first responders discovered the charred bodies of 25 year old Meghan Londo and 20 year old John Cadot inside. Neither Megan nor John were residents of that apartment. The apartment. belonged to a woman named Cassie Cruz. Megan was staying at the apartment while Cassie was supposedly out of town with her boyfriend. Tracy, Megan, and John had spent the day together. Tracy was needing a ride back to his home on the White Earth Indian Reservation and Megan had said she could arrange and ride back fo r him. Megan invited Tracy and John over to Cassie Cruz's apartment while they tried to figure out a ride back home for Tracy. As the evening went on, Cassie learned that people other than Megan were at her apartment. Tracy said he overheard Cassie who was on the phone with Megan state that she was going to send some people over to kick everyone out. Fearing the potential for police due to an active warrant Tracy had for burglary in another county, Tracy left the apartment in John's car and went over to visit his girlfriend about a mile away. He eventually left his girlfriend's apartment and headed back to Cassie's apartment where Megan and John were. When he was down the street from Cassie's apartment. He saw a series of first responder vehicles heading in the direction of Cassie's apartment. Once again fearing to be in an area with police presence due to his active warrant, Tracy turned around and instead of going to the apartment he had originally intended, Tracy headed home to the White Earth Indian Reservation. Not long after his arrival home, Tracy learned of the murders of his friends Megan and John and realized that the first responder vehicles he had seen had been responding to the horrific deaths of his friends in Cassie's apartment. Being that Tracy was upfront about having been with Megan and John in Cassie's apartment earlier that night and the fact that he was driving John's car, Tracy became the prime suspect in the murders of his friends and based on purely circumstantial evidence, he was convicted and sentenced to Life Without Parole.

Just Unjust - Ju'ane Kennell

In the early morning hours of June 21st, 2001,  a black Ford Tempo pulled up outside a residence in St Louis Missouri. According to witnesses, 3 African American men got out of the car, pulled out guns, and opened fire on a group of people sitting on the porch of the house.    As the victims attempted to flee the scene, some of them returned fire and one of the people from the porch by the name of Freddie Chew, was killed in the gunfire.  Down the street several blocks away from the scene, Ju'ane Kennell and his family were asleep in their beds with their home secured by a Brinks Home Security System. A security system which would have been set off by either someone attempting to leave the house or someone attempting to come in. Later that morning after they had woken, Ju'ane and his family learned of the murder of Freddie Chew.  Despite his solid alibi of his family members stating he was home all night as well as no record of the home security system showing anyone leaving or entering the house that evening or early morning, Ju'ane was ultimately charged, tried, and convicted of the murder of Freddie Chew and was sentenced to Life without Parole in a Missouri penitentiary where he remains today. Ju’ane's conviction was almost entirely based on the testimony of two individuals by the name of Jeffery Shockley and Robert Stewart, both of whom cut sweetheart deals with the prosecution on their own separate pending criminal cases and in addition, received cash payments from a secret state slush fund in exchange for their testimony against Ju'ane. Despite the fact that Ju'ane has clear and compelling evidence that he was not involved in the death of Freddie Chew, the courts have repeatedly denied his appeals, however not on the evidence of his innocence that he has submitted, but rather on mere legal technicalities. The courts have essentially told Ju'ane repeatedly over the last 21 years that regardless of his evidence of innocence and the overwhelming prosecutorial and police misconduct that occurred in his case, he is time barred. This is Just Unjust.