Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng Season 2 - TRAILER

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Pulitzer prize winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng returns for Season 2 of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng. Maggie shares intimate conversations, in her unique and celebrated style, with men and women who have spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit. Some have been fully exonerated and reunited with family and friends while others continue to languish in prison. Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng will be available every Monday beginning January 9th right here in the Wrongful Conviction Podcasts feed.

Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	What if you were accused of a crime you didn't commit?
0:03.1	They were like, well, we really think that you murdered your parents.
0:05.8	What if you had to face down an entire courtroom to defend someone's innocence?
0:10.8	He said to the police, they threatened me.
0:13.0	I'm terrified, but this never happened and I'm not going to say it did.
0:16.8	Or choose between prison for yourself or a loved one.
0:19.9	He was about to say he did it just so I can go home and I grabbed his hand and I said,
0:24.2	you will not lie for these people.
0:26.8	I said, because we didn't do anything wrong.
0:28.4	I'm Maggie Freeling, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and host of wrongful conviction
0:32.9	with Maggie Freeling.
0:34.2	Studies show that around 5% of incarcerated people in this country are behind bars because
0:39.9	of a wrongful conviction.
0:41.7	So you might be asking yourself, how could this happen?
0:44.5	Do you think there was police corruption in your case?
0:47.8	Absolutely.
0:49.0	The state's only motive, the brand and what have had to do this is that he was gay.
0:53.8	In season two of wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling, I'll be back with more stories
0:57.8	of women and men caught up in our flawed, corrupt and ineffective judicial system.
1:03.2	I don't have to accept this by any means.
1:05.6	They should never ever ever happen to me and it definitely should happen in the future.
1:09.0	Listen to wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling from Lavafirgood Podcasts on the I Heart
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