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Good Kids, Bad City

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by Kyle Swenson


    6.  W. James Van Vliet, “Murder Conviction Here Is Set Aside,” Plain Dealer, April 21, 1977.

    7.  State of Ohio v. Wiley Bridgeman, Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, 1977.

    8.  “Verdict Confirmed, Man to Get Chair,” Plain Dealer, February 17, 1978.

    9.  “Bridgeman Claims Innocence, Says He Doesn’t Want to Die,” Call and Post, February 29, 1978.

  10.  Richard G. Zimmerman, “Ohio’s Death Law Tested by 2 Cases Before High Court,” Plain Dealer, January 18, 1978.

  11.  Victor L. Streib, The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006), 60–65.

  12.  Richard G. Zimmerman, “Ohio Killers Win Reprieves in High Court,” Plain Dealer, July 4, 1978.

  6. MENS REA

    1.  Anthony Singleton and Ed Vernon, interview by author, April 28, 2016; Anthony Singleton and Ed Vernon, interview by author, November 17, 2016.

    2.  Bob Becker and Madeline Drexler, “Popular Poison: Cocaine Deadlier, Demand Up,” Plain Dealer, July 3, 1086.

    3.  Tom Andrzejewski, “Sleeping Giant Is Shaken by Drug Scene in America,” Plain Dealer, September 1, 1986.

    4.  Jim Parker, “Feds Join Probe Here of Violent Jamaican Drug Gangs,” Plain Dealer, September 13, 1987; Eric Stringfellow, “Detroit Trio Ran Ohio Drug Ring,” Plain Dealer, April 5, 1990.

    5.  Eric Harrison, “Cleveland Scandal: Did Cocaine Sting Fuel Drug Sales?” Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1989, http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-14/news/mn-2039_1_police-cars-drug-dealer-biggest-cocaine-bust.

  7. ALHAMDULILLAH

    1.  Kwame Ajamu, interview by author, February 6, 2016.

    2.  Terry Gilbert, interview by author, August 22, 2016.

    3.  Karen Farkas, “Case resulting from slaying is built on DNA tests,” Plain Dealer, January 27, 1991.

    4.  Robert J. Norris, Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 44–47.

  8. THE MALES ARE FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD

    1.  Kyle Swenson, “Shots in the Dark,” Cleveland Scene, June 29, 2011, https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/shots-in-the-dark/Content?oid=2655374.

    2.  Douglass S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), 77.

  9. WHAT THE BOY SAW

    1.  Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993).

    2.  Kansas v. Marsh, 278 Kan. 520 (2006).

    3.  Samuel R. Gross and Michael Shaffer, “Exonerations in the United States, 1989–2012,” National Registry of Exonerations, University of Michigan Law School, June 2012.

    4.  Allison D. Redlich, James R. Acker, Robert J. Norris, and Catherine L. Bonventre, editors, Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2014), 22.

    5.  Eric Heisig, “Cleveland Ordered to Pay $13.2 Million Judgment for Police Officer in Wrongful Conviction Suit,” Cleveland.com, October 13, 2016, http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2016/10/cleveland_ordered_to_pay_132_m_1.html.

    6.  Martin Kuz, “The Unluckiest Man on Death Row,” Cleveland Scene, November 22, 2001, https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/unluckiest-man-on-death-row/Content?oid=1478288.

    7.  Vince Grzegorek, “Call It Even,” Cleveland Scene, July 6, 2011, https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/call-it-even/Content?oid=2668451.

    8.  C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias, editors, Wrongful Convictions & Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems (New York: Routledge, 2013), 46–50.

    9.  Ivan Tanksley, interview by author, spring 2011.

  10.  Valerie Abernathy, interview by author, spring 2011.

  11.  Lynn Garrett, interview by author, spring 2011.

  12.  William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2011), 224–230.

  13.  Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, 256.

  14.  Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, 193.

  15.  James Q. Whiteman, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 56.

  10. SUPER FLOP

    1.  Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2012), 60.

    2.  Brandon L. Garrett, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), 195–200.

    3.  Garrett, Convicting the Innocent, 200–202.

    4.  In re Davis, 130 S. Ct. 1, 3 (2009).

    5.  Rickey Jackson, interview by author, April 26, 2016.

    6.  Robert J. Norris, Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 15–17.

    7.  Quoted in Norris, Exonerated, 27.

    8.  Quoted in Norris, Exonerated, 54.

    9.  Quoted in Norris, Exonerated, 2–3.

  10.  Garrett, Convicting the Innocent, 204.

  11.  Garrett, Convicting the Innocent, 217.

  12.  Norris, Exonerated, 103.

  13.  Jacob Baynham, “The Correction,” Cincinnati, November 2010.

  14.  Carrie Wood, interview by author, December 11, 2016.

  15.  Scott Crowley, interview by author, March 4, 2017.

  11. HYPERTENSION

    1.  Anthony Singleton, interview by author, April 21, 2016.

    2.  Sierra Merida, interview by author, January 5, 2017.

  12. WE CAN FIX THIS

    1.  “52 places to go in 2015,” The New York Times, December 21, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/11/travel/52-places-to-go-in-2015.html.

    2.  “Justice Department, Federal and State Partners Secure Record $7 Billion Global Settlement with Citigroup for Misleading Investors About Securities Containing Toxic Mortgages,” U.S. Department of Justice, July 14, 2014, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-federal-and-state-partners-secure-record-7-billion-global-settlement.

    3.  Rich Exner, “Cleveland population loss slows; find latest census estimates for every U.S. city, county and state,” Cleveland.com, May 19, 2016, https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2016/05/cleveland_population_slows_fin.html; Patrick O’Donnell, “Cleveland school district planning to cut $21 million from school budgets next year as enrollment slide continues,” Plain Dealer, February 26, 2014, https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/02/cleveland_school_district_plan_1.html; Rich Exner, “Decade after being declared nation’s poorest big city, 1-in-3 Clevelanders remain in poverty,” Cleveland.com, September 18, 2014, https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2014/09/decade_after_being_declared_na.html.

    4.  Ron Rutti, “Cleveland fire truck freed from unsteady street,” Plain Dealer, March 29, 2014, https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/03/cleveland_fire_truck_freed_fro.html.

    5.  “Prosecutor’s Summary,” Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, February 3, 2013, http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Briefing-Room/News-Releases/Cleveland-Officer-Involved-Shooting-Investigation/General-Reports/Prosecutor-s-Summary-2-4-2013.aspx.

    6.  “Exonerations in 2014,” The National Registry of Exonerations, January 27, 2015.

    7.  Ibid.

    8.  Denise Grollmus, “Trial and Error,” Cleveland Scene, May 24, 2006.

    9.  Ibid.

  10.  Kim Schneider, “Most Interesting People 2013: Tim McGinty,” Cleveland Magazine, December 17, 2012, https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/people/articles
/most-interesting-people-2013-tim-mcginty.

  11.  Brandon L. Garrett, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), 48–49.

  12.  Ronald Huff and Martin Killias, editors, Wrongful Convictions & Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems (New York: Routledge, 2013), 97.

  13. 39 YEARS, 3 MONTHS, 6 DAYS

    1.  Paskvan v. City of Cleveland, 70 F. 1272 (6th Cir. 1995).

    2.  John S. Long, “Restricted officer wins case,” Plain Dealer, December 3, 1988.

  EPILOGUE: COMEBACK

    1.  Rickey Jackson, interview by author, 2016.

    2.  Tanvi Misra, “America Has Half as Many Hypersegregated Metros as It Did in 1970,” City Lab, May 21, 2015, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/05/america-has-half-as-many-hypersegregated-metros-as-it-did-in-1970/393743.

    3.  State of Ohio v. Michael Brelo (Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, May 23, 2015).

    4.  Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 23–24.

  Index

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  Abernathy, Valerie

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain)

  African Americans

  Black Lives Matter

  Black Panther Party

  Black Power

  civil rights movement

  in Cleveland

  hypersegregation and

  Ajamu, Kwame (Ronnie Bridgeman)

  arrest of

  Board of Elections job of

  car and

  civil rights lawsuit filed by

  conviction of

  death penalty and

  financial compensation for

  Franks murder and

  Gilbert and

  Glenville riots and

  Islamic faith of

  marriage of

  name change of

  in prison

  release of

  reopening of case

  Rickey’s mother and

  Rickey’s release and

  sentencing of

  Social Security number of

  trial of

  Vernon’s retraction of testimony against

  Vernon’s testimony against

  Wiley’s release and

  Ajamu, LaShawn

  American Apartheid (Massey and Denton)

  Angelotta, John

  Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act

  Armstrong, Richard

  Attica Correctional Facility

  Awadallah, Saleh

  Ayers, David

  Bacon, John C.

  Baird, Gabriel

  Bedau, Hugo Adam

  Bell, Willie Lee

  Bennett, Angela

  Bennett, Chris

  Bias, Len

  Bilal ibn Rabah

  Birns, Alex “Shondor”

  Black Lives Matter

  Black Panther Party

  Black Power

  Black Unity House

  Bonds, John Ray

  Borchard, Edwin

  Brelo, Michael

  Bridgeman, Beatrice

  Bridgeman, Bessie

  Bridgeman, Hawiatha

  Bridgeman, Hawiatha, Sr.

  Bridgeman, Ronnie, see Ajamu, Kwame

  Bridgeman, Wiley

  arrest of

  at City Mission

  civil rights lawsuit filed by

  conviction of

  death penalty and

  financial compensation for

  Franks murder and

  mental health issues of

  police reports and

  in prison

  release of

  reopening of case

  retrial of

  sentencing of

  trial of

  Vernon’s meeting of

  Vernon’s retraction of testimony against

  Vernon’s testimony against

  Brown, Jim

  Brown, John

  Brown, Michael

  Brzuski, Tim

  Call and Post

  Calvino, Italo

  Cannon, James

  capital punishment, see death penalty

  Carmichael, Stokely

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carter, Ronald

  Cassano, August

  Castle Doctrine

  Cattano, David

  Chicago, Ill.

  Chicago Seven

  Citigroup

  City Mission

  “Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau)

  civil rights movement

  Clayton, George

  Cleveland, Ohio

  African Americans in

  arson in

  bombings in

  comeback of

  crack cocaine in

  crime in

  early history of

  east-west divide in

  economy of

  European immigrants in

  housing in

  police in

  politics in

  public records in

  riots in

  schools in

  Cleveland Magazine

  Cleveland Pride, Inc.

  Cleveland Scene

  article on Franks murder in

  Cleveland State University

  cocaine

  Collapse of American Criminal Justice, The (Stuntz)

  Collins, Cleophus

  Convicting the Innocent (Borchard)

  conviction integrity units (CIUs)

  Copeland, Essie Mae

  Copeland, Milton

  Corrigan, John T.

  Corrigan, Michael J.

  crack cocaine

  crime

  in Cleveland

  war on

  criminal justice system

  conviction integrity units in

  DNA evidence and

  innocence claims and; see also wrongful convictions

  police in, see police

  prosecutors in

  Crowley, Scott

  Cut-Rate, see Fairmount Cut-Rate

  Cuyahoga County

  Cuyahoga County Anti-Slavery Society

  Cuyahoga County Courthouse

  Cuyahoga River

  D’Ambrosio, Joe

  Davis, Troy

  DEA

  death penalty

  Ronnie, Wiley, and Rickey and

  Del Balso, Dominic

  Democratic National Convention

  Denton, Nancy

  Detroit, Mich.

  Dickson, Kim

  Dimora, Jimmy

  DNA evidence

  drugs

  crack cocaine

  war on

  Elkins, Clarence

  Emmanuel Christian Center

  Evans, Fred Ahmed

  Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement (Norris)

  exonerations

  Fairmount Cut-Rate

  robbery-homicide outside of, see Franks, Harry J.

  Farmer, James T.

  FBI

  Feckner, Arthur “White Art”

  Federal Crime Bill

  Forbes

  Forbes, George

  Forum Magazine

  Founders

  Fowler, Craig

  Franks, Harry J.

  murder of

  “Frontier Thesis” (Turner)

  Gardenhire, Doris

  Gardenhire, Paul

  Gardner, Erle Stanley

  Garmback, Frank

  Garner, Eric

  Garrett, Brandon L.

  Garrett, Edward

  Garrett, Lynn

  Garrity, Patrick

  Garver, Joel

  Ghetto Takes Shape, A: Black Clevelan
d, 1870–1930 (Kusmer)

  Gilbert, Terry

  Gillispie, Dean

  Godsey, Mark

  God Squad

  Goldstone, Richard

  Gomez, Henry J.

  Great Recession of 2008

  Great Society

  Green, Anthony Michael

  Greene, Danny

  Greene, Jacqueline

  Hague, The

  Hall, Tommy

  Harpers Ferry

  Hartlaub, David

  Hassel, Robert

  Hayden, Tom

  Hell’s Angels

  Helsinki Accords

  Hill, Baxter

  Hinton, Elizabeth

  Hixson, Ishmael

  Hoffman, Abbie

  Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of

  Howe, Brian

  Hunt, Darryl

  hypersegregation

  innocence claims

  Innocence Movement

  Innocence Project

  see also Ohio Innocence Project

  Islam

  Jackson, Ernest

  Jackson, Frank

  Jackson, Rickey

  arrest of

  civil rights lawsuit filed by

  conviction of

  death penalty and

  dog of

  financial compensation for

  Franks murder and

  Marine Corps and

  mother of

  motion and hearing for release of

  OIP and

  police reports and

  in prison

  release of

  reopening of case

 

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