During the summer, I received a call from my daughter, Tiffani Hurst, who excitedly told me about a client of hers, Mark Purnell, who had just been released from prison after serving 15 years for a murder he did not commit.
In Part 1 of the compelling podcast titled, Justice Delayed, Tiffani describes how she was moved by her initial interview with Mark. She said he moved her in a way she generally is not moved because it is not really her job to be moved; it’s her job to look at what she can do for her clients whether their cases are moving or not. But what she said to Mark was, “I believe you.”
Follow this compelling story at: https://probonopodcast.podbean.com/e/justice-delayed-–-part-one/
Part 2 of the podcast describes what happens when a Big Law firm brings its resources to bear on a wrongful conviction case as a Milbank LLP partner and counsel describe their successful pro bono advocacy for a wrongfully imprisoned client who was denied release even after his murder conviction was overturned in what they described as “outrageous.”
Follow the end of this story at: https://www.pli.edu/probono/probonopodcast/episode-26
