Five Shots in the Dark | Fire in the Brain | 5

Suspect

Wondery | Campside

True Crime, Chameleon, Arpana Jinaga, Over My Dead Body, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Exhibit C, Eric Benson

4.2 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

While petitioning for clemency nearly a quarter century after his conviction, Leon connects with a wrongful incarceration advocate who believes his case could be overturned. But in order to exonerate him, Leon needs to find a good attorney to stand by his side.

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0:00.0	binge all eight episodes of Suspect,
0:02.5	add free on Wundery Plus.
0:04.4	Find Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.6	Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:15.0	Camside media.
0:19.4	Matt, remind me why you're in San Francisco right now.
0:22.6	Because I had to go to L.A. for a couple of meetings,
0:25.1	so I figured we'd try to…
0:26.3	I think yes.
0:27.1	No, that came for this was the answer, yeah.
0:29.2	When we first started working on this podcast, Leon Benson's exoneration seemed inevitable—a
0:35.6	done deal.
0:36.8	How could it not be?
0:38.6	The evidence collected over the years showed clearly that although one witness still believed
0:43.2	Leon was responsible for Casey Shane's death, a wealth of other people had seen something
0:48.3	entirely different—surely everyone else would see that too.
0:53.2	The everyone here being the criminal justice system and more specifically the judge.
0:58.2	But as I say this out loud, I'm reminded of an earlier episode of this podcast, where
1:02.6	I compared Leon to the protagonist of Kafka's The Trial.
1:06.9	Remember the guy that believed that if he just pointed out the obviousness of his innocence
1:11.3	for long enough, someone would listen, someone would take action.
1:16.0	Now I was that character.
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