What is Wrong with the Wrongful Conviction Movement? Feat. Actual Justice Warrior

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

True Crime

3.3 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Sean Fitzgerald [aka Actual Justice Warrior] joins Roberta to talk about the Innocence Project's never-say-guilty technique of continuing to push innocence long after the DNA results have implicated their killer client. Also discussed, the unbelievable facepalm moment in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial, the poor state of true crime reporting and Sean's uneasiness with televised trials.
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0:00.0	You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.
0:26.1	From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.
0:43.1	Sean Fitzgerald is better known as his YouTube moniker, actual Justice Warrior, where his commentary on politics and media and controversial true crime cases have earned him
0:50.2	150,000 subscribers and over 25 million views. He was kind enough to sit down and talk to me about
1:01.5	Paul House killer, Julius Jones, and the media and the movement that supports him and other
1:08.6	convicted killers. Welcome Sean Fitzgerald. So, Sean, did you have a
1:15.5	background in criminal justice? Yeah, I went to school for criminal justice. I went to John Jay
1:22.1	College for it and another university to get my first degree in it, like a community college.
1:27.7	Did you get a degree or did you?
1:29.8	I have two.
1:30.5	So what are your degrees in?
1:32.2	It's like criminal justice and criminal justice.
1:34.8	Like one is like theory and law, something like that.
1:38.9	And what did you think you wanted to do with it?
1:41.7	What were your goals?
1:43.1	Originally, I was going to go to law school.
1:45.5	I wanted to be a lawyer. I love argumentation and all that. But I struggled to get through
1:51.8	like school because I couldn't afford it. So I take semesters off and all that. And by the time I
1:56.7	graduated, I felt like I was too old to go to law school. And on top of that, I could have got
2:02.6	my master's at the same time through a program. But I decided like I've always been interested
2:07.9	in video production and all that. So instead of doing that program, which I got into, I decided to
2:13.6	take film editing classes. And that's what led me here because I always hated media coverage
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