Speaker 1: I'm Lauren brag Pacheco, and I'm back for a new
Speaker 1: season of Wrongful Conviction. This season, we're confronting one of
Speaker 1: the greatest failures in our justice system. When innocent people
Speaker 1: are sent to prison, almost no one is ever held accountable.
Speaker 2: I have no clue with Joe, what the hell it
Speaker 2: not involved in any kind of way. How am I
Speaker 2: sposed to serve with scenates for something that I do.
Speaker 1: An estimated five percent of people behind bars are innocent.
Speaker 1: That's more than one hundred thousand lives stolen.
Speaker 3: They don't need concrete evidence to bind You're guilty here.
Speaker 3: It's like they don't take a human life serious.
Speaker 1: You know, these aren't statistics. They're real people stripped of
Speaker 1: their freedom, families, and futures by a system that promises
Speaker 1: innocent until proven guilty, but far too often delivers the opposite.
Speaker 4: It was physically impossible. Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't throw a dead
Speaker 4: body forty five feet, But I also knew I was
Speaker 4: based on the blood types.
Speaker 1: We've known for decades. Why it happens? I witness misidentification,
Speaker 1: coerced confessions, junk science, official misconduct, and yet it keeps
Speaker 1: happening with almost no consequences for those responsible.
Speaker 5: Qualified immunity is a huge issue. I don't see how
Speaker 5: prosecutors or police can ever really be held accountable the
Speaker 5: longest there's this immunity.
Speaker 1: So the question remains, how do we stop it?
Speaker 4: They say someday everybody's going to be judged by God.
Speaker 3: I wonder are they going to step up and say,
Speaker 3: you know, there's something wrong back then?
Speaker 1: This season we're asking what real accountability looks like for
Speaker 1: the wrongfully convicted and for the people fighting to bring
Speaker 1: them home.
Speaker 6: My daughters, they have to grow up without being Hopefully,
Speaker 6: one day I'll be homes with most you know.
Speaker 1: The new season of Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco
Speaker 1: drops November thirteenth,