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Speaker 1: If one of your loved ones had been killed, you

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Speaker 1: probably would have been like you, they're going to help me.

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Speaker 1: They always look at the family first.

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Speaker 2: I've spent years investigating cases where the system got it wrong,

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Speaker 2: and here's what I know. A verdict isn't the end

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Speaker 3: I ristigma, you've seen a guy get shot. Why you're

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Speaker 3: standing up ex rist having to say the dude got

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Speaker 3: shot while he's laying on the ground, and they still

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Speaker 3: that this lady, check us fly alive.

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Speaker 2: I'm Maggie Freeling, Pulitzer winning journalist and host of Wrongful

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Speaker 2: Conviction with Maggie Freeling, and I'm so excited to be

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Speaker 2: back for season five.

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Speaker 4: Being a nobody black man from the streets of Detroit

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Speaker 4: where constitutional rights didn't exist at all, Magdine, I thought

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Speaker 4: they will kill me that night.

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Speaker 2: This season will hear the harrowing experiences that led innocent

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Speaker 2: people into incarceration.

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Speaker 1: One of the detectives got on the stand and said

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Speaker 1: there was blood all over the curtains. Well, guess what,

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Speaker 1: there were no curtains in the bedroom.

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Speaker 2: These resilient people refuse to be defined by what was lost.

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Speaker 4: My initial motivation was to turn myself into a weapon

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Speaker 4: so that I could fight back against the system that

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Speaker 4: had rolled over my life.

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Speaker 2: And turned that loss into purpose.

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Speaker 5: When my feet hit the floor in the morning, I say,

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Speaker 5: I am fighting for those who can't. I am fighting

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Speaker 5: for all these people who are waiting for justice.

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Speaker 2: Listen to new episodes of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freeling

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Speaker 2: starting Mark fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or

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Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts.