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Podcast: Legal Listening: The Fox Rothschild LLP Podcast
Episode: The Presumption of Innocence - Episode 52
Description: Episode 52
Engineered for Injustice: How Coerced Pleas Trap the Innocent
Rodney Roberts was given a total of 25 minutes to make a life-altering decision.
In custody, isolated from family and advised by a public defender to plead guilty to lesser charges in a crime he did not commit, Rodney succumbed to fear and pressure, and agreed to the terms.
In this wrenching episode, Rodney joins host Matt Adams and defense attorney Tim Gumkowski of the Innocence Project to share his personal story of coercion into a guilty plea and the years of his life he lost as a result, trapped in...