#364 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Eric Weakley and Michael Hash - UPDATE

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Michael was serving a life sentence until one person came to his rescue: his mom.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us to Culpeper County, Virginia, to tell the story of teenage buddies Eric Weakley and Michael Hash. Local police solved a murder case by coercing Eric into falsely confessing and into falsely implicating his friend Michael as an accomplice. For years, lawyers couldn’t get justice for either of them -- until Michael’s mom found evidence that blew this case wide open.

We are updating this episode with the great news that, with your support, in 2022, Governor Ralph Northam pardoned Eric, and Eric and Michael are finally both officially exonerated, and justice has been served.

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