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Speaker 1: If one of your loved ones had been killed, you probably would have been like you, they're going to help me. 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, and here's what I know. A verdict isn't the end of the story, it's just the beginning.

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Speaker 3: I ristigma, you've seen a guy get shot. Why you're standing up ex rist having to say the dude got shot while he's laying on the ground, and they still that this lady, check us fly alive.

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 4: Being a nobody black man from the streets of Detroit where constitutional rights didn't exist at all, Magdine, I thought they will kill me that night.

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Speaker 2: This season will hear the harrowing experiences that led innocent people into incarceration.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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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 so that I could fight back against the system that 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, I am fighting for those who can't. I am fighting 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 starting Mark fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.