Maurice Shema

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415 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jul

Maurice Shema’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.

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The Daily · From Trump’s Attorney to Attorney General: The Rise of Todd Blanche · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

The client, David Wood, was on death row in Texas, had been there for more than 30 years. voice-verified

The lawyer was writing because David Wood had lost all of his appeals. voice-verified

He was set to be executed. voice-verified

The lawyer's plan to stop the execution was to try and prove something that nobody had successfully done in three decades, that one of Texas' most notorious serial killers was actually innocent. voice-verified

It wasn't that the lawyers didn't have a case to make. voice-verified

I know two people fabricated testimony to get a guy executed. voice-verified

It's just that they had so little time to make it. voice-verified

The Last 12 Weeks. voice-verified

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. voice-verified

The Daily · What’s Epic About the ‘Odyssey’? Everything. · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

This is Maurice Shema, the host of a new podcast from Serial Productions, The Marshall Project, and The New York Times. voice-verified

Last year, I spent three months embedded with a Capitol defense team. voice-verified

Their client had been on death row for more than 30 years, and now his execution date had been set. voice-verified

I followed along as the lawyers tried to prove something nobody had successfully done in three decades, that one of Texas' most notorious serial killers was actually innocent. voice-verified

The last 12 weeks. voice-verified