If one of your loved ones had been killed, you probably would have been like, they're going to help me.

They always look at the family first.

I've spent years investigating cases where the system got it wrong.

And here's what I know.

A verdict isn't the end of the story.

It's just the beginning. Her statement, she's seen a guy get shot while he was the story. It's just the beginning.

Her statement, she's seeing a guy get shot while he was standing up.

Because the person to happen to say the dude got shot while he was laying on the ground.

And they still let this lady check the fly on lie on me.

I'm Maggie Freeling, Pulitzer winning journalist, and host of wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling.

And I'm so excited to be back for season five.

Being a nobody black man from the streets of Detroit, where constitutional rights didn't exist

at all back then. I thought they were going to kill me that night.

This season will hear the harrowing experiences that led innocent people into incarceration.

One of the detectives got on the stand and said there was blood

all over the curtains. Well, guess what? There were no curtains in the bedroom. These resilient

people refused to be defined by what was lost. My initial motivation was to turn myself into a

weapon so that I could fight back against the system that had rolled over my life.

And turned that loss into purpose.

When my feet hit the floor in the morning, I say, I am fighting for those who can't.

I am fighting for all these people who are waiting for justice.

Listen to new episodes of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freeling, starting March 5th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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