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What if you or someone you love were arrested, convicted and incarcerated for a crime but was innocent? What if the lawyer you hired was incompetent and you were out of money and out of options? What if years and decades had gone by and you or the person you cared about was still behind bars? Where would you turn? Wrongful conviction in the United States occurs more often than you might think. Just last year, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, 156 people were released from prison after being proven innocent. Since 1989, 2,479 people were exonerated across the country. Since 1973, 156 people were taken off Death Row and walked out of prison. For every 10 people executed, 1 pe…
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A careful account of McVeigh's lead role, Nichols' support, and the practical choices behind Oklahoma City.
Jeffrey Toobin's conversation with Harriet Hendel traces the partnership behind the Oklahoma City bombing with a clear split between Timothy McVeigh's driving role and Terry Nichols' supporting one.
Toobin connects Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the assault weapons ban to McVeigh's path toward Oklahoma City.
Jeffrey Toobin traces Timothy McVeigh's road to the Oklahoma City bombing through the events he argues hardened McVeigh's worldview: Ruby Ridge, the Waco siege, and the 1994 assault weapons ban.
A sober closing conversation on the victories, costs, and emotional limits of wrongful-conviction work.
Pursuing Justice ends its month with the Innocence Project of Florida by returning to Seth Miller as IPF marks 20 years. He reflects on the work's hard-won victories and harder limits, including why difficult cases can be especially meaningful, how expert costs can affect what…
A wrongful-conviction conversation about medical misdiagnosis, prison, and the support that helped Stephanie Spurgeon endure it.
Stephanie Spurgeon's story gives Pursuing Justice a stark wrongful-conviction focus. She says she was arrested for capital felony murder even though no crime occurred, then spent 8.5 years in a Florida prison.
Dean McKee's path from juvenile incarceration to freedom is framed through persistence, self-education, and the prison law library.
Dean McKee's story begins with a teenager's night in Tampa, then widens into a long account of incarceration, legal self-education, and eventual freedom.
True crime with patience for the strange details.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
Harriet Hendel and Jeffrey Toobin focus on Homegrown, McVeigh's friendship with Terry Nichols, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
McVeigh was not a lone wolf, and Jeffrey Toobin says "there was an army out there" that agreed with him.
Harriet Hendel and Seth Miller use Pursuing Justice's 20th-anniversary episode to revisit the Innocence Project of Florida's defining cases, including Dean McKee, James Bain, Amanda Brumfield, and Stephanie Spurgeon.
Stephanie Spurgeon tells Harriet Hendel that she was arrested for capital felony murder after an eight-hour daycare day with Maria Harris, a child who later became unresponsive and was diagnosed with abusive head trauma.
Harriet Handel frames Dean McKee’s case on Pursuing Justice as a 30-year span, from December 20, 1987 to January 9, 2018, with Dean describing a first-degree murder conviction tied to Isaiah Walker in Tampa’s Ybor City.
Pursuing Justice marks the Innocence Project of Florida's 20th birthday, tracing its 2003 creation as the Florida Innocence Initiative.
Saul Kassin links 94% of proven false confessions to accurate, nonpublic crime details that can appear independently incriminating.
Host Harriet Hendel discusses life without parole sentences with exonerees Terrell Carter and Kempis Songster, focusing on their advocacy work.
Host Harriet Handel interviews guests from the Pathfinder Network about supporting justice-impacted individuals and families.
Host Harriet Hendel interviews Leticia Longoria Navarro and Victor Trillo about the Pathfinder Network, which supports justice-impacted individuals and families.
Host Harriet Handel interviews author Andrea Elliott about her book 'Invisible Child', which explores themes of poverty, homelessness, racism, and hunger.