In this episode, Mary Chartier, Takura Nyamfukudza, and Lizzy Sailor speak with Marvin Cotton regarding his wrongful conviction and exoneration.  ..read more

In this episode, Mary Chartier, Takura Nyamfukudza, and Lizzy Sailor speak with Kenneth Nixon about his case and exoneration, as well as all of the great work he is doing today. At the age of 19, Kenneth was wrongfully accused and convicted of setting fire to a house that ended the lives of two children ..read more

Join Mary, Takura, Lizzy, and Kim as they answer listener questions about their work on the  Tomasik case! The Defenders explain the work they did on the case, which led to Dennis Tomasik's exoneration ..read more

Mary Chartier, Takura Nyamfukudza, Lizzy Cary, and Kim Barrus of Chartier & Nyamfukudza, P.L.C., speak with Kim Tomasik about her husband's case. Her husband, Dennis Tomasik, spent 9 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Kim discusses what she and her family had to go through during those 9 years, and all that she did to help exonerate her husband ..read more

Join Lizzy and Mary as they speak with Attorney Mariell Lehman about her recent win in a self defense case. Mariell's client was charged with first degree premeditated murder when all he was doing was protecting his own life. Congrats, Mariell ..read more

In this episode, Mary, Takura, and Lizzy speak with attorneys Marla Mitchell-Cichon and Lori Montgomery about their previous work on exoneration cases when it comes to finding and testing DNA evidence. Find out some of the interesting places where evidence has been found!  ..read more

Mary, Lizzy, and Marisa speak with Attorney Sofia Nelson about her extensive work on juvenile lifer cases.  ..read more

Join The Defenders as they speak with Marla Mitchell-Cichon, who is the director of the Western Michigan University-Cooley Innocence Project. Marla and her team represented Ledura Watkins - a man who was wrongfully convicted in 1976 of murder due largely to scientifically invalid evidence. Ledura spent over 41 years in prison until he was exonerated. In this episode, Marla discusses what led to Ledura's exoneration and the process that she and her team went through to help get him released ..read more

Welcome to season 2! Join Mary, Takura, and Lizzy as they speak with their client Lacino Hamilton. Lacino spent 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit due to corruption in the Detroit Police Department and a "jailhouse snitch."  ..read more

In this episode, Mary, Takura, and Lizzy speak with Attorney Robert Burton-Harris about race in the criminal justice system and his case dubbed the "Gardening While Black" case. Robert's client was falsely accused of numerous crimes by three white women in Detroit, when he was doing nothing more than gardening in a community garden - while being black.  ..read more