Wrongfully Yours
A place where I host conversations with people who have been impacted by wrongful convictions - sometimes this is an exoneree, a family member of an exoneree, a justice official, a filmmaker, a student...I'm really open to speaking with anyone because I think we all have such interesting and unique perspectives to bring around this issue in an effort to challenge assumptions, surface uncomfortable truths, and foster critical thinking about how justice is pursued and portrayed.
Wrongfully Yours
Latest Episodes
On July 21: A Conversation You Won’t Want to Miss
After spending 10 years wrongfully incarcerated, Leslie Vass was granted a full, unconditional pardon and promised compensation. What followed instead was delay, political interference, and the stripping away of what he was owed while his crimi...
Part 2 with Leslie Vass coming July 21 on Wrongfully Yours.
What happens after a wrongful conviction is overturned, but the record remains?In this episode, Leslie Vass explains why a full pardon did not bring the freedom he expected, and how a conviction can continue to haunt someone for decades....
Coming July 21 on Wrongfully Yours
After seven years behind bars, Leslie Vass was approached by a fellow incarcerated man who told him something that would change everything: the police had mistaken Leslie for someone else. What followed was a fragile thread of truth, deep mistr...
Episode 31 -Leslie Vass
In this powerful conversation, Leslie Vass shares how a routine trip to a neighborhood store at age 17 turned into a wrongful conviction that cost him decades of his life. Arrested based on a vague identification, denied meaningful legal repres...
Coming July 7 on Wrongfully Yours - How Little It Took
Leslie Vass remembers walking into the courtroom and sitting down only to learn, moments later, who had accused him. He had never seen the victim before. During the arrest, his face was pressed to a wall. A voice said he “looked like” the robbe...
