Meet Darrell Jones
FOUNDER / PRESIDENT & STRATEGIST OF PLANNING
Entrepreneur, 32 year Exoneree, and public speaker, Darrell Jones was under a Natural Life sentence for a false conviction before being proven innocent and released on June 11, 2019.
Making A Difference in the culture by educating people is one of his passions and he focuses on spreading the love, peace and teaching the strategies of survival that the community can use to heal and grow stronger. His commitment to lecturing student at prominent Universities, increasing awareness about wrongful convictions encouraging the focus on justice, prison reform, truthful media reporting, and representing the underrepresented is making a BIG difference in the culture.
In addition to creating Do Your Homework Media, he Has created many organizations promoting peace and justice in the world such as “Stressin’ Me Street,” “Your Flowers Now,” and is known by several aliases such as “The Bad Boy Of Good Talk,” “DJ 3rd Eye,” and “The Strategist.”
His Resume is quite extensive ranging from consulting for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to speaking at Universities, churches, mentoring businesses, and even creating peace among gang leaders as well.
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The History, “Reasonable Doubt” - Courtesy of WBUR
The videotape allegations are part of a motion filed in October to reopen the case in Plymouth County Superior Court, where Jones was found guilty of the 1985 murder of alleged Cuban cocaine dealer Guillermo Rodriguez in Brockton, about 25 miles south of Boston. Jones, then 19 years old, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Richard Sproules, Chief of Brockton Police 1987 - 1989
In 1985, He was Head of Detectives and Narcotics. Darrell was arrested in 1985.
Officer Joseph Smith (Who Erased a Key part of the Evidence convicting Darrell) and Detective Donald LaGarde interviewing witness Terie Starks.
A murder is remembered by a witness, and Darrell Jones, who was innocently convicted of the killing.
Eleanor Urbati said she was the last juror holding out for not guilty. She recalls that two jurors’ comments that she deemed “racist.” On the first day of deliberations, she said both of them believed Jones was guilty.
“Because he’s black?” she asked.
“And they said, ‘yes.’ They said ‘yes,’ the two men. How do you like that?”
The man’s grave who was killed in 1985, Guillermo Rodriguez whom Darrell Jones was blamed for the death of and served 32 years in maximum security prison as an innocent man.
Darrell is free now and pours into the community speaking to the youth at Universities and Churches, organizing local and national events. He’s a serial entrepreneur, a leader in the community, spearheading exoneree awareness, injustice in the prison system, Father’s rights and much more.