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Podcast: Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Episode: Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Eric Weakley and Michael Hash
Description: Michael was serving a life sentence until one person came to his rescue:Â his mom.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us to Culpeper County, Virginia, to tell the story of teenage buddies Eric Weakley and Michael Hash. Local police solved a murder case by coercing Eric into falsely confessing and into falsely implicating his friend Michael as an accomplice. For years, lawyers couldn’t get justice for either of them -- until Michael’s mom found evidence that blew this case wide open.
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