Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 228: Exonerated Attorney Seeks to Undo Massive Injustice

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, 12:35 p.m.

This week on Everyday Injustice Jarrett Adams \u2013 himself exonerated of a wrongful conviction \u2013 is seeking to undo a massive injustice in Virginia.\n\nDespite the fact that a jury found Terrence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne not guilty of murder, a judge was able to sentence them to life in prison. They have currently spent 22 years behind bars, but Jarrett Adams is trying to free them, having recently argued before the Virginia Supreme Court.\n\n\u201cThe Court\u2019s decision to sentence Terrence and Ferrone to life in prison despite being found not guilty robbed due process of its very meaning,\u201d said Jarrett Adams. \u201cThe U.S. Supreme Court must do away with its ruling in U.S. v Watts, which gives a judge the discretion to make a jury\u2019s finding meaningless, and prevent further miscarriages of justice from occurring like the one we see in this case.\u201d\n\nListen to Adams describing this remarkable and unthinkable injustice in the criminal legal system.