S3 Ep10: Leslie Vass (Part 1)
Actual Innocence
Brooke Gittings
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Leslie Vass was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated at the age of seventeen... hear the first part of Leslie's story.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Leslie Vass. I am Maryland's first exonerary. I was wrongfully in prison at the age of 17 to 28 here in the state of Maryland back in 1975 for an armed robbery charge. |
| 0:26.5 | I served 11 years, over 20 years sentence. |
| 0:33.1 | Hi, this is Brooke, and you're listening to actual innocence. |
| 0:38.0 | A podcast bringing awareness to wrongful conviction and problems with the justice system. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm here with my amazing co-host, DeMarco. |
| 0:42.8 | How are you doing this week? |
| 0:45.3 | I had a wonderful week. |
| 0:48.3 | I did something I haven't did. |
| 0:49.8 | I visited Chicago. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, how was it? |
| 0:53.1 | Chicago was remarkable. |
| 0:55.1 | You know you was there. Was that your first time? |
| 1:00.1 | No, I actually went to college. I did my undergrad degree near Chicago. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay, so DeMarco, do you want to explain to the listeners what we were doing in Chicago? |
| 1:15.6 | Yes, I will. We had an invitation from Naperville High School, Ryan Dingell, the teacher there. He's the one that invited us and it was nothing short of amazing. |
| 1:21.6 | It was, yeah, it was really cool to see all of these high school students that were interested in learning |
| 1:27.5 | about wrongful conviction. |
| 1:28.5 | I enjoyed myself as well. |
| 1:30.0 | Man, that was cool. |
| 1:31.1 | That was really cool. |
| 1:32.8 | And I got a thank you letter just the other day in the mail. |
| 1:35.4 | Did you get one? |
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