I was in the Maryland penitentiary at 954 Ford Street, which was a maximum security facility, the same one that all the life was at.

That's where they held me at. And I had no proud convictions at the age of 17. Yes, I was there.

Hi, I'm DeMarco, and you're listening to actual innocence.

My podcast bringing awareness to wrongful convictions and problems with the justice system.

I'm here with my amazing co-host, Brooke.

How are you doing this week, Brooke?

I am doing really well.

I'm getting ready for Christmas.

My cats were watching me put up the

Christmas tree, so I decided to just throw all the ornaments behind the tree to save them the trouble.

That's funny. I actually have my Christmas tree up as well and a few presents under there.

We got a lot of snow. Do you have snow there? No, you have snow? Yeah, we have a lot. No, I'm not. I'm not ready for snow yet. So today's episode is the second part of our interview with Leslie Vass. So if you haven't listened to the first part, you might want to go back and do that first. DeMarco, can you give the listeners a little recap of the previous episode?

Leslie was a 17-year-old kid who had never had an inaction with police before.

He had a trial by judge, and he seems to be a genuinely good guy.

So if you haven't heard episode one, part one, y'all need to go listen to that.

So I want to talk for a minute about our sponsors. We are so grateful to all of our sponsors

for the support and to you for supporting them. But we also wanted to make sure that you know,

we only endorse sponsors that we really believe in. We've actually

turned down sponsors that we didn't feel were supportive of our goals. Today we have three sponsors.

Seat Geek Away and Bombas, one of my favorites, Bombas. I was babysitting the other day and the girl

that I was babysitting, she's 10, and she was like, oh my gosh, Ms. Brooke, look, those socks you like her on TV. And I looked at it. It was a bombus commercial. And then she was like, oh, my gosh, look what shirt I'm wearing. And she had on a bomba shirt that I had given her. So she was super excited that she was immersed in bombusness. That's cool. I haven't seen the bombus commercial, but I'm going to have to start looking for that. I have the Seat Geek app on my phone, and it makes it so easy to buy tickets. I can be anywhere, and with just a few taps, I can instantly find seats. I actually just use Seat Geek to buy tickets for my mom for Christmas. I can't tell you

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