Maurice Shema

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358 appearances 30 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 31 Jul

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

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recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 30 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 6.

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Hard Fork · ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing · 20 Mar 2026 podcast

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. voice-verified

Hard Fork · A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity · 13 Mar 2026 podcast

This is Maurice Shema, host of The Last 12 Weeks, a new podcast from Serial Productions, The Marshall Project, and The New York Times. voice-verified

A couple of years back, I got an email from a defense lawyer who wanted me to write about his client. voice-verified

The client, David Wood, was on death row in Texas. voice-verified

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