In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

Putting bad guys away.

There's no feeling like it.

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.

20 men eventually walked free.

Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,

Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton.

Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. asks.

Body Bats, with Joseph Scott Morgan.

When I was 13 years old, I played baseball. And the reason I bring that up is that I always thought that I would never be able to,

but something clicks when you hit that age 12 to 13. I was never a very

good baseball player prior to that I was not naturally gifted at it.

But when you hit 12 or 13,

like so many other things at that time in life,

there's something that that arises within you as a child where you begin to kind of see your way just a

little bit certainly not all the way I've had middle schoolers in my house trust

me they haven't seen their way clear in all things but there's

something that happens at that magical age where your future begins to

brighten a little bit you kind of go from being a child into that teen world

and you start to on those wobbly legs get your footing. But you know for many kids unfortunately, like the one we're

going to speak of today, the future doesn't brighten.

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