Can we watch teletubbies for a second?

Although that's also horrifying.

Hey, I'm Jan Abumrod. This is a more perfect mini-series.

We're just getting going about some of the ideas and the cases that flow through the Supreme Court.

We're going to start the series off with a story that isn't so much a courtroom drama.

This one is about an issue that I think everybody agrees is about to land at the Supreme Court again in a big way.

Story comes from reporter Karen Duffin and it begins with a mystery.

Right.

All right, so we're starting with Maya.

With Maya, yeah. Maya Foa. I am the director of the Deaf penalty team at Reprieve.

Okay, so Maya Foa lives in London and when she was about 25, she had graduated from college.

She was doing some theater things, but she was like having this quarter-life crisis and didn't know what to do with her life.

Close college for the Lail.

It's a word of.

The next central crisis and I wrote to a couple of organizations and said, you know, please can I be useful to you?

She ends up volunteering at this place called Reprieve.

Legal organization that did Deaf penalty cases.

Are they like a bunch of lawyers or what do they do?

Yeah, like they do legal work and advocacy.

They've been working on the Deaf penalty for like years at that point to try to abolish it.

I view the Deaf penalty and I viewed it at the time as sort of the sharp end of a series of societal injustices.

So anyway, she's at Reprieve one night.

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