Introducing Convicted: Across Borders

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Los Angeles Times

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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From Focus Features and L.A. Times Studios brand team comes the new podcast series, CONVICTED: ACROSS BORDERS. Hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark, we'll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials. Through these stories, we'll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration in foreign lands, how to navigate different legal systems when you don't even speak the language, and who one turns to when the closest help is thousands of miles away. Enjoy this sneak peek of the podcast, and be sure to listen and follow wherever you listen to podcasts. This is a paid podcast funded by Focus Features. The Los Angeles Times newsroom was not involved in the production of this podcast.

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0:00.0	Hey there, if you're looking for the latest podcast to obsess over, I'm here to tell you
0:05.4	about the newest podcast from Focus Features and LA Times Studios' brand team.
0:10.9	Convicted Across Borders
0:13.4	Funded by Focus Features in support of the film Stillwater, convicted across borders
0:18.8	will do a deep dive into five individual cases from the 3000 Americans who are in prison
0:24.5	abroad every year.
0:26.6	Most of those travelers experience a little more than an inconvenience, a fun anecdote
0:30.9	to tell their friends when they get back home.
0:33.2	But for others, that adventure abroad becomes a nightmare of epic proportion, hosted by
0:39.3	famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marsha Clark.
0:43.4	You'll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials.
0:48.2	Through these stories, we'll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration
0:53.2	and foreign lands.
0:54.8	Not to navigate different legal systems when you don't even speak the language.
0:58.8	And who one turns to when the closest help is thousands of miles away.
1:03.4	Like Jason Porakow, a man convicted with no evidence against him and no prior criminal
1:09.0	history of international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime in Nicaragua.
1:15.9	Take a listen.
15:45.9	And that's just one of the cases waiting to be heard.
15:59.9	You can listen to the first two episodes of convicted across borders right now by searching
16:05.6	convicted across borders on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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