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FairPlay is an original discussion series on Wrongful Convictions from JustcieNews.Net where a "Fair" dialog takes place from the vantage point of the accused, and brings forward those voices that are mostly ignored by the society. Hosted by Justice News managing editor Imran Siddiqui, FairPlay sheds light on the injustices in the U.S. justice system, based on facts, data, and ground realities, without any fear to speak the truth. FairPlay, Conversations@JusticeNews, uncovers a wide variety ...
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Michael Smith | FairPlay EP24 S2 | The Case With No Indictment
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June 19, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | This was the first message I received on Twitter from Michael Smith of Kentucky on Jan 3 2022. Quote Lexington Kentucky fraud on the court case number 3:08-cr-31(Jmh) denied due process malicious prosecution fraud-The federal grand jury declined to indict YET WE had a five 5 week trial and spent nine …
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Omar Muhammad | FairPlay EP23 S2 | A Crime With No Victim?
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June 1, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | Like thousands of other young black men wrongfully incarcerated in the United States of America, there is another young and articulate man by the name of Omar Muhammad pulling a 26 year sentence in Minnesota for an alleged sexual assault that he maintains he did not commit. He says his girlfriend, C.M.…
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John Merritt | FairPlay EP22 S2 | Florida Commissioners on Offender Review Are Corrupted Vermins.
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When The Tsunami of Justice Comes. The Unjust Are Mowed Down and Destroyed. April 30, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | I have always felt that audio does not lie, audio is naked, no matter how hard you try to dress it up, you can't, you can always catch a person's true character in their audio, the sound, the spoken voice will say it all. Thi…
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Michael Thompson | FairPlay EP21 S2 | Life After Clemency
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April 24, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | After spending over 2 decades in a Michigan state prison for selling marijuana to an informant in 1994, Michael Thompson is thankful to God that he was saved from life in prison. Michael was granted clemency in 2021 by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, he wouldn't have been eligible for parole unti…
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Kemen Taylor | FairPlay EP20 S2 | False Eyewitness Testimony Breeds Wrongful Convictions.
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March 21, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | If you give a ride to some guys you kinda know, and they go and shoot someone else, will you be held responsible for the shooting? False or Mistaken Eyewitness Testimony is something that is loved by the U.S. In-Justice System. They love it so much that it makes up almost 70% of the more than 375 wro…
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David Thorne | FairPlay EP 19 S2 | Harmless Error. A Lifelong Damage
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February 11 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | When the woman you admire becomes the mother of your child, it’s just a very surreal moment. Why would anyone want to throw all that away to oblivion? And just for a couple of hundred bucks? If you are insane then I can understand it, but if you're ready to cut a check for one year of advance child…
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Mahdi Ali | FairPlay EP 18 S2 | Juvenile Injustice. Growing Up Wrongfully Incarcerated.
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January 16 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | Mahdi Ali did not grow up like a so-called typical kid, who bikes, goes to school, has fun with friends hanging out or just playing video games, nor did he go to college, he did get his GED but not in the way you might think. Because for the past 11 years, he’s been figuring out how to grow up and s…
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Paula Kensu | FairPlay EP 17 S2 | Families of The Wrongfully Incarcerated
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January 9 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | If you are reading this while married, and if you have a spouse, a husband or a wife, and they are next to you, then immediately thank God. Because things can turn around for worse, any second, and all that you are taking for granted everyday, could be gone in the blink of an eye. I thank God for all…
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Bruce Smith | FairPlay EP 16 S2 | How To Wreck the Lives of the Poor in America.
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December 29 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | Bruce Smith has spent over 20 years in a Florida state prison as part of his conviction of Life without parole plus 15 years for allegedly killing a 4 year old boy Cameron in 2000, who was also the son of his girlfriend at that time. Bruce has maintained his innocence all these years and he says he…
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Trent Taylor | FairPlay EP15 S2 | Dis-Qualified Immunity.
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December 24 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | Who Watches The Watchers? Especially when the so-called "Watchers" "Guards" are evil and mentally sick. So imagine you’re in prison for something that you did and you've been judged upon by the court system and you're in there paying the price of what you did. Fair enough. But what happens when whi…
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FairPlay EP14 S2 | VAMJ and Michael Krawitz. Marijuana Justice Reform.
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VAMJ with DCMJ Helped Legalize Cannabis in Virginia on July 1 2021. Now they want the non-violent marijuana convictions thrown out so people can finally go home. December 6 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News. Once there was a time, long long time ago, when people didn't have to look shocked or dumbfounded if someone mentioned the word, Marijuana …
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FairPlay EP13 S2 | Temujin Kensu. The Man They Don't Want To Let Go
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FairPlay EP13 S2 | Temujin Kensu. The Man They Don't Want To Let Go November 21 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News. Reader Discretion is Advised. Imagine being in prison for over 35 years for a crime that you did not commit and no matter how hard you tried, no matter how clear the evidence of your innocence is and who else on this earth comes to …
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FairPlay EP12 | John Merritt. An Indictment of America.
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October 24 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News. Reader Discretion is Advised. Full article on The JBlog. There is a reason why they call it "Systemic Corruption" and the more it gets ignored it has morphed into a "Systemic Disease" that's slow gouging on its own self and people either become a part of it, sucked in as the final meal to the systems…
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FairPlay EP11 | Charmon Sinkfield. Cattle for The U.S. Prison System.
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FairPlay EP11 Charmon Sinkfield | Cattle for The U.S. Prison System. What Happens To The Innocent While The Judges Defecate On Their Oath. October 9 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News. Could it be possible that for over a decade, most people in America and their dogs have been screaming at the top of their mouths and blaming the wrong guy for the…
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FairPlay EP10 | Justice For Leonard Coleman - Not Done Yet
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Explicit Content Warning | 18 + | For Mature Audience September 8 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News Isn't it the responsibility of the prosecutors, the judges and the police officers to seek the truth, to seek justice? Or are they in it just to seek convictions? Many argue that now in America, you are first presumed guilty rather than innocent, …
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FairPlay EP9 | Trinity Milford Matthisen - Time and Circumstance
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At the Wrong Place. At the Wrong Time. Explicit Content Warning | 18 + | For Mature Audience August 19 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News Trinity Matthisen has spent the last two decades of his life inside a prison. Right now he is somewhere in Michigan, behind bars, in a small, very uncomfortable cage, for something, he says, he did not do, for …
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FairPlay EP8 | John Ortiz Kehoe. 25 Years and Counting
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FairPlay EP 8 | John Ortiz Kehoe | Justice for an Accuser a Defendant and a Missing Girl - Explicit Content Warning | 18 + | For Mature Audience Only. August 14 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News.Net What do you do when out of three the people you have, the only one who can tell you exactly what happened, is dead? How much truth can you find in t…
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FairPlay EP7 | Luke Wirkkala, Acquitted
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FairPlay EP 7 | Luke Wirkkala, Acquitted The Right To Defend Myself July 22, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | JusticeNews.Net You have got to seriously pause for a few seconds and put yourself in this situation, after I ask you this question... What do you do in a moment when you are under assault?... Should you give in. Should you run? Or Should you fight……
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FairPlay EP6 | Lydell Grant Is Exonerated
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FairPlay EP 6 | Lydell Grant Is Exonerated How to convict an innocent man in America, but not get away with it, this time. June 10, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | JusticeNews.Net Justice for Lydell has finally been achieved but not without a hard fight. In our previous episode of FairPlay we spoke to Mike Ware the defense attorney for Lydell Grant and we …
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FairPlay EP5 | Mike Ware. Fighting for Lydell Grant
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June 1, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | JusticeNews.Net Lydell Grant spent more than 9 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, but being free now, safe in the comfort of his home in Houston Texas, didn't come without a fight. It took him a decade to break free from the chains of a Cruel Prison-System where he was unjustly incarcerated for almost a …
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FairPlay Ep4 | Exonerated with Valentino Dixon
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FairPlay Ep4 | Exonerated with Valentino Dixon It Took 27 Years For Him To Get Justice May 17, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | JusticeNews.Net Joining me on this episode of FairPlay is someone who persistently fought for justice for his own life and his freedom and for the truth and he got it but it took him about 27 years to get there, and his name is Val…
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FairPlay Ep3 | Exonerations with Barbara O’Brien
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FairPlay Episode 3 | Exonerations with Barbara O’Brien The cost of incarcerating the innocent May 9, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | JusticeNews.Net The mission of The National Registry of Exonerations is to provide comprehensive information on exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in order to prevent future false convictions by learning from past e…
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FairPlay Ep2 | Christopher Tucker. 19 Years and Counting.
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FairPlay EP2 | Christopher Tucker 19 Years And Counting For A Crime He Says He Did Not Commit April 26, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | JusticeNews.Net Here we go again. Another one of those bizarre cases where you can easily see the ongoing injustices within the U.S. judicial system, despite the claims that America is one of the last beacons of hope to fi…
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FairPlay Ep1 | Kimberly Kendall Corral and The Case of Michael Thompson
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FairPlay Episode 1 | Michael Thompson 25 years of torment. Much deeper are the wounds. April 18, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | JusticeNews.Net To discuss the challenges in finding justice in America we are joined by Kimberly Kendall Corral on our debut episode of FairPlay. Kim is a criminal defense attorney at kimlawcrimlaw.com based out of Cleveland Ohi…
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