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Podcast: F*ck The Status Quo
Episode: Ep 20 - A Wrongful Conviction in 2023 with Solomon and Zenith Anderson
Description: On March 22, 2023, Zachariah Anderson was wrongfully convicted on several charges in Kenosha, Wisconsin; he is currently facing a possible life sentence in prison. We won't go into all of the details here, as the trial was already highly publicized and we hope that, if you have watched it, you came to the same conclusion: his guilty verdict was a miscarriage of justice. What we're arguing here isn't unprecedented or unique--this is a tragedy that happens far more frequently than anyone might suspect.Â
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, the rate of wrongful convictions i...