Best Of: You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent (Justin Brooks)

Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Mental Health

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In honor of Wrongful Conviction Day, we present one of our favorite episodes from the archives. Justin Brooks is the author of You Might Go To Prison, Even Though You're Innocent. He is also the director of the California Innocence Project, which has freed 36 wrongly convicted people from over 570 years of wrongful imprisonment. But what sort of toll does that work take on the people who do it? And what do you learn along the way? Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. https://www.patreon.com/knoxrobinson https://www.amandaknox.com Twitter: @amandaknox | @manunderbridge IG: @amamaknox | @emceecarbon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	And she tells me this amazing thing that she's innocent.
0:18.0	And so I said, so you're innocent and you play guilty and you've been sentenced to death.
0:23.8	Yes, I went back to my first year criminal law students and told them exactly what she told me.
0:28.4	I said, there's this young woman, she's 21, she's sitting on death row row and she says she's innocent. You know who wants to help me out and four kids raise their hand
0:37.6	So the innocence project for me was born that night sitting on my kitchen table going through the police reports.
0:45.0	Feeling lost?
0:47.0	Then you're in the right place.
0:48.0	I'm Amanda Knox and I'm Christopher Robinson.
0:52.0	And this is
0:53.0	is Labrentz.
0:54.0	That was Labyrinth.
0:55.0	That was the voice of Justin Brooks.
1:02.0	That was the voice of Justin Brooks, founder of the California Innocence Project.
1:07.0	In our own work advocating for the wrongly convicted, we've gotten to know Justin Brooks quite well. But so often when we meet up at
1:15.3	Innocence Project events we're talking about the urgent and tragic cases that need
1:20.3	attention. We're focused on the wrongly convicted people
1:23.6	like Marilyn Malero, whose cases fill the days, weeks,
1:27.5	and years of lawyers like Justin Brooks.
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