Welcome back to our mini-series, wrongful conviction with Jason Flom in the time of COVID.

You know, COVID-19 has wrecked havoc across the globe.

Countless lives have already been lost as unprecedented worldwide economic devastation

and the internet is full of misinformation that has so many people in disagreement about

what is real and what's the best path back to normalcy.

And why does so many plans seem to involve callously risking or even losing so many more lives?

All of this, while we're living, the restricted movement, isolation, and economic anxiety,

to say the least.

With so many ethical and philosophical questions looming in this ice-geist, I can't think

of a better member of our wrongfully convicted community to guide us through this tough time.

So this week we'll talk to a man, along with four other young teenage boys, which vilified

and demonized in the media.

Donald Trump, infamously and wrongly, took out full-page ads in the newspaper back then

to call for the reinstatement of the death penalty just so these kids could be executed for

a crime they didn't commit.

They were barely teenagers when they were lied to by authorities and pitted against each

other to give false confessions, and ultimately they were sentenced to many long years behind bars,

only to have about a decade later the man who committed the horrific crime at the center

of the media and law enforcement circus, Matthias Reyes, can vass thereby clearing the names

once and for all of the Central Park 5, now known as the Exonerated 5.

Now he tells us about how community, living in his mind, doing things that add value to

his life and the life of others, realizing his purpose through the pain and his underlying

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