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When Justice Got It Wrong: The wrongful convictions of Leighton Hay and Raymond Flanks

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This episode is about time you can’t get back.
The silence of a prison cell when you know you don’t belong there.
A life put on pause—sometimes forever.
It’s about wrongful convictions. Men like Raymond Flanks, who spent nearly 40 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
Men like Leighton Hay, just 19 when he was locked up for 12 years—because of a bad eyewitness and a bit of hair in a garbage bin.     #truecrimecommunity #truecrimepodcast #LeightonHay #RaymondFlanks #youneedtohearthis #innocenceproject #Exonerated #SystemicRacism #racialinjustice

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