Wrongfully Convicted at 17 to Innocence Pardon: Dieter Tejada’s Comeback

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Nightmare Success In and Out

brent cassity

202 episodes

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What happens if your worst fear becomes your reality? Brent Cassity was a successful CEO working in a family business that grew to a national company that was recognized by the media of being the pioneers in their industry. Brent had it all and lost it all. He found himself standing at the gates of Leavenworth Prison to serve a 5 year sentence. Brent's podcast explores the stories of inmates who were in and now out of prison. What was life like before they went in, life inside prison, and life now that they are back home. These conversations are deep, sad. often funny, but always interesting.

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Wrongfully Convicted at 17 to Innocence Pardon: Dieter Tejada’s Comeback | Nightmare Success In and Out

Nightmare Success In and Out

1 hour 29 minutes 16 seconds

1 week ago

Wrongfully Convicted at 17 to Innocence Pardon: Dieter Tejada’s Comeback | Nightmare Success In and Out

At 17, a high-school party turned into a baseball-bat attack—and a life-altering case. Dieter Tejada took a plea to avoid a decade in prison, served time, then rebuilt everything: UConn, Vanderbilt Law, passing the bar—only to discover withheld exculpatory evidence years later. In September 2023, he received a full, unconditional pardon recognizing his innocence.
Host Brent Cassity and Dieter dig into why innocent people plead guilty, reentry with an ankle monitor, confronting stigma, and the long road to an innocence-based pardon.

Highlights

The night everything changed (self-defense vs. narrative)
Pressure to plead and how the system incentivizes it
Reentry: college classes, ankle monitor, and resilience
Finding 20+ missing pages in the police report
From wrongful conviction to innocence pardon—and what changes now

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