Sarah Koenig

About justice, presumably, and fairness.

Yesterday, there was a lot of talk about fairness.

But most of what the state put in that motion to vacate, all the actual evidence, was either known or knowable to cops and prosecutors back in 1999.

So even on a day when the government publicly recognizes its own mistakes, it's hard to feel cheered about a triumph of fairness.

Because we've built a system that takes more than 20 years to self-correct.

And that's just this one case.

This episode was produced by Julie Snyder, Dana Chivas, and me.

Editing by Dana and Julie.

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