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com. I'm no anthropologist or a social scientist, but I have a hunch that justice is a deeply primal feeling.

You need only look at squabbling children to know how early and strongly the feeling manifests.

That's not fair fair they'll scream.

And what is our desire for revenge, if not a selfish will to balance the scales, to see justice done?

Why do we root for the underdog, find satisfaction in the fall of the

hubrid? We want a level playing field. We want reward and punishment equally

met it out. But our world is one where bad things happen to good people and bad people can get away with almost anything.

It's not fair.

And today we have a tale of such injustice.

On this week Saturday matinee, we bring you a teaser from the first

episode of the new podcast, The Burden, in which a group of convicted murderers

who all say they are innocent, realize the same New York detective helped put many of them away.

Educating themselves on the law and enlisting the help of a New York Times reporter,

they attempt to find justice for themselves and others.

And three decades later, more than 20 people this detective helped

in prison have walked free.

In the media, he's a disgraced detective, a rogue cop who hoodwinked an entire system.

But is this a fair assessment or yet another injustice?

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