Hey everybody and welcome back to Truth and Justice.

I know that I told everyone that there wouldn't be an episode this week and that we're going to be off.

And technically that's still the plan.

There definitely won't be a follow-up episode this week.

But I decided to go ahead and put out a bonus episode for today.

And the reason for that is really when it comes down to it,

this time of year can be kind of tough for not just me,

but anyone who works in the space and the wrongful conviction space.

For those of you they've been listening for a long time,

you know that the bad days outweigh the good days

by an incredible amount when you're working in wrongful convictions. Most days are spent grinding

and working and reading case files and trying to do investigations and hitting dead ends and getting new leads.

And as you all know, the court system is certainly not designed for convictions to be overturned.

So it's loss after loss after loss most days.

But every once in a while, you have one of those good days.

And it erases the memory of all those bad days that preceded it.

From time to time, I try to revisit those good days.

It's something I do to keep myself motivated to keep doing this work,

especially when I'm feeling particularly discouraged, because it's been a while since we've had a win.

And this time of year, like I said, is tough because even though we've had such great success over these last 10 years,

and several of the people that we've worked with are now home with their families because of the work that you all

have done along my side. But there's also so many that are still in prison, so many innocent

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