Vacated, Reinstated — How New York Took Back a Man’s Freedom: The Story of Baby Sam

About this episode

The episode discusses the case of Samuel 'Baby Sam' Edmondson, whose wrongful conviction was vacated and later partially reinstated by the State of New York.

Send us Fan Mail For more than 33 years, Samuel “Baby Sam” Edmondson lived inside a conviction the courts would later acknowledge was broken. In 2022, a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge vacated that conviction after finding unreliable witnesses, suppressed evidence, and investigative misconduct tied to NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella. Baby Sam walked free and began rebuilding his life. Three years later, the State of New York reinstated part of that same conviction — without a new trial — sending ...

People in this episode

Host: Elliott Carter

Topics covered

• criminal justice
• wrongful conviction
• NYPD misconduct
• legal system
• reinstatement of conviction

Keywords

• wrongful conviction
• Samuel Edmondson
• Louis Scarcella
• NYPD
• Brooklyn Supreme Court
• justice system
• reinstatement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NYPD

Places: New York

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