Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 17: Tio Sessoms and His Fight for Exoneration

Tio Dinero Sessoms was 19 years old when two Sacramento homicide detectives interrogated him about a deadly home invasion he says he didn’t participate in. November 1999.

He would be coerced into making a false confession and, even when the appellate courts overturned his sentence, he was forced to take a plea agreement for time served rather than receive his full exoneration.


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David Greenwald is the founder, editor, and executive director of the Davis Vanguard. He founded the Vanguard in 2006. David Greenwald moved to Davis in 1996 to attend Graduate School at UC Davis in Political Science. He lives in South Davis with his wife Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald and three children.

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