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The Case of Introducing - Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco | Season 2
📻 Episode #Bonus
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 07, 2025
About This Episode
Six new, inspiring episodes of Wrongful Conviction, hosted by Lauren Bright Pacheco, that celebrate the potential of human connection to empower ordinary people to overcome extraordinary odds and injustices. Real individuals who unexpectedly became one another’s personal heroes by turning tragedy into triumph.
The Case
Six new, inspiring episodes of Wrongful Conviction, hosted by Lauren Bright Pacheco, that celebrate the potential of human connection to empower ordinary people to overcome extraordinary odds and injustices. Real individuals who unexpectedly became one another’s personal heroes by turning tragedy into triumph.
Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco will be available every Thursday beginning November 13 wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good+ on Apple Podcasts.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.
00:00:01“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”
00:00:50“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.”
00:01:22“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 6: My daughters, they have to grow up without being Hopefully,”
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