The Frequency Network: The Wave
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What happens when the justice system gets it wrong?Every week on Stuck, Jamaican lawyer and journalist Andrew Wildes tackles the problem of wrongful convictions in Jamaica. Hear about the innocent, imprisoned and ignored, the lawyers battling to free them, and the experts demanding change. Brought to you by The Wave on the Frequency Network.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Stuck traces how confessions, jury rules and forensic evidence can turn uncertainty into conviction across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.
Andrew Wildes follows wrongful convictions from the evidence presented in court to the procedures that allow doubt to be dismissed. Stuck: Wrongful Convictions in Jamaica with Andrew Wildes combines case narration, legal analysis and guest interviews, keeping Jamaica at its…
Two jurors can say not guilty; Andrew Wildes asks you to mind the math.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A careful conviction story that lets procedure do the dramatic work.
This episode treats a conviction appeal as a close study in how a confession can be tested, doubted, and ultimately overturned. It works best when it stays with the legal reasoning in sequence, especially the missing reasons from the judge and the Privy Council's view that those…
A sober look at how a majority-verdict rule can let doubt be sidelined.
The piece centers Jamaica's non-unanimous jury rule and keeps the question where it belongs: what justice means when doubt can be overruled. It works best when it turns procedure into a concrete human cost, showing how a majority-verdict rule can put someone in prison for life.
A careful look at how a wrongful conviction survives, and what it takes to stop the next one.
The conversation stays on wrongful conviction in Barbados and keeps its eye on the basic problem: what happens when the evidence is wrong but the system keeps moving.
A Caribbean legal discussion that links wrongful convictions, confession recording, and police procedure.
Krista Mason-Smith gives the episode its center of gravity, framing wrongful convictions as a practical problem as much as a moral one. The strongest material ties the case for audio-visual recording to the ordinary way confessions are made, judged, and later disputed.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
Patrick Radden Keefe investigates whether the CIA secretly wrote a Scorpions hit.
Jake Halpern and the Snowball team track a con artist who defrauded a family.
A city-by-city true-crime documentary, from Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick scandal to mob confessions.
A murder rumor in rural Alabama unravels into a clockmaker's suicide and estate feud.
Krista Mason-Smith joins Andrew for a careful conversation about wrongful convictions and recording reform in the Bahamas.
Stuck heads to Barbados to speak with King's Council Andrew Pilgrim about wrongful convictions and the slow grind of reform.
This episode takes aim at Jamaica's non-unanimous jury verdict rule.
This episode explores the wrongful conviction of Vincent Aristi in the Bahamas, who confessed to crimes he didn't commit after alleged police brutality.
Andrew Wiles interviews Trinidadian attorney Brent Winter about wrongful convictions, death-penalty scrutiny, and Caribbean criminal justice.
On Stuck, Andrew Wiles examines Julian Washington's Bermuda wrongful-conviction case with DNA expert Dr.