Speaker 1: If one of your loved ones had been killed, you
Speaker 1: probably would have been like you, they're going to help me.
Speaker 1: They always look at the family first.
Speaker 2: I've spent years investigating cases where the system got it wrong,
Speaker 2: and here's what I know. A verdict isn't the end
Speaker 2: of the story, it's just the beginning.
Speaker 3: I ristigma, you've seen a guy get shot. Why you're
Speaker 3: standing up ex rist having to say the dude got
Speaker 3: shot while he's laying on the ground, and they still
Speaker 3: that this lady, check us fly alive.
Speaker 2: I'm Maggie Freeling, Pulitzer winning journalist and host of Wrongful
Speaker 2: Conviction with Maggie Freeling, and I'm so excited to be
Speaker 2: back for season five.
Speaker 4: Being a nobody black man from the streets of Detroit
Speaker 4: where constitutional rights didn't exist at all, Magdine, I thought
Speaker 4: they will kill me that night.
Speaker 2: This season will hear the harrowing experiences that led innocent
Speaker 2: people into incarceration.
Speaker 1: One of the detectives got on the stand and said
Speaker 1: there was blood all over the curtains. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: there were no curtains in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: These resilient people refuse to be defined by what was lost.
Speaker 4: My initial motivation was to turn myself into a weapon
Speaker 4: so that I could fight back against the system that
Speaker 4: had rolled over my life.
Speaker 2: And turned that loss into purpose.
Speaker 5: When my feet hit the floor in the morning, I say,
Speaker 5: I am fighting for those who can't. I am fighting
Speaker 5: for all these people who are waiting for justice.
Speaker 2: Listen to new episodes of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freeling
Speaker 2: starting Mark fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts.