The Alford Plea

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

A man finds himself forever caught between guilt and innocence. In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists, Brown found himself contemplating a path to freedom that involved a paradoxical plea deal—one that peels back the curtain on the criminal justice system and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Latif. Just quick fair warning. This episode is not for children. It's true-crimey, gets a little
0:09.7	grisly, onto the show.
0:12.1	Oh, wait, you're listening.
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0:20.0	You are listening to Radio Lab. Radio.
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0:27.0	Yep. Yeah.
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0:30.0	Hey, I'm Latv Nasser. This is Radio Lab. No Lulu today.
0:34.8	I hit record.
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0:36.8	Instead, I'm going to be joined.
0:38.4	All right.
0:39.4	Here we go.
0:40.4	By reporter, Peter Smith.
0:42.4	So yeah, we go back a couple of years
0:45.1	and maybe even a couple of years on this idea.
0:47.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, like honestly,
0:50.3	I've been waiting to do this story and I couldn't do it myself and it took you Peter a superior reporter to me or just a more serendipitous reporter maybe so yeah maybe I can tell you how I sort of like stumbled into this story
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