Introducing Abuse of Power with David Rudolf and Sonya Pfeiffer
The Score: Bank Robber Diaries
Acast Studios & Western Sound
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Coerced confessions. Fabricated evidence. Arresting and prosecuting the innocent. The United States justice system commits wrongs of every degree against the very people it's supposed to protect: us.
From Campfire & Acast Studios comes a brand new 10-episode podcast series that tells real-life stories of abuses of power in our criminal justice system that sometimes reflect incompetence but often involve intentional wrongdoing. Award-winning journalist and criminal defense attorney, Sonya Pfeiffer, and her husband and law partner, David Rudolf dive deep into each case, providing listeners with an overview of the abuse that occurred, interviewing those directly involved – including defendants, lawyers, experts and family members – and also highlighting the fallout of the untold stories of those impacted.
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| 0:00.0 | Junk science, shoddy investigations, and law enforcement misconduct are only some of the reasons |
| 0:08.4 | innocent people can find themselves wrongfully convicted and locked up for life or even sentenced to death. |
| 0:16.4 | The American criminal justice system needs reform. |
| 0:19.8 | Our rate of incarceration is higher than any other country in the world. |
| 0:24.0 | Some studies estimate there are 230,000 innocent people in prison right now. |
| 0:30.0 | From Camp Fire and A-Cast Studios comes a new 10 episode podcast series that tells real life stories of abuses of power in our criminal justice system that sometimes reflect incompetence but often involve intentional wrongdoing. |
| 0:45.6 | The abuses rarely, if ever, result in adverse consequences for the government officials who |
| 0:50.4 | are responsible, but can steal decades of time from the very people the criminal justice |
| 0:55.6 | system is supposed to protect. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Sonia Fyfer, and I'm David Rudolph. |
| 1:02.5 | As criminal defense and civil rights attorneys, |
| 1:04.8 | we fight these abuses of power in our practice |
| 1:07.7 | and also in this podcast |
| 1:09.7 | by educating our listeners on how to protect themselves and advocate for others. |
| 1:15.0 | Search for abuse of power with David Rudolph and Sonia Fyfer in the Apple Podcasts |
| 1:20.0 | app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:23.0 | And check out the first episode, out right now. |
| 1:26.2 | Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. |
| 1:28.9 | To get you started, here's a clip from episode one, the State of North Carolina versus Tim Bridges. |
| 1:38.7 | On Mother's Day 1989, 83-year-old Mo Dean Wiese was brutally attacked and raped inside her |
| 1:46.8 | home in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
| 1:49.4 | The next day, Wies was discovered by her sister-in-law Virginia who immediately called police. |
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