The Alford Plea
Episode Ep 585 53 min 49s

The Alford Plea

From Radiolab WNYC Studios
A man finds himself forever caught between guilt and innocence. In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists, Brown found himself contemplating a path to freedom that involved a paradoxical plea deal—one that peels back the curtain on the criminal justice system and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does.

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