Conviction

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**Conviction**

Max B is a Harlem rapper on the brink of stardom. One night he gets wind of a bag full of cash that’s sitting in an empty hotel room, and he starts scheming. It would be an easy score – in and out, no one gets hurt. But it doesn’t go down like that. It all ends in chaos, kidnapping and a dead body. This is the story of a rapper who risked it all for a bag full of money, a robbery where everything went wrong, a messy trial, and a sentence that makes you question who the justice system works for… and who it works against. Conviction is a podcast anthology series about crime and justice. Each story examines a new case and asks: Who does the justice system work for, and who does it work against?

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Episode 2: Bring the Money Feb 28, 2023

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Max cooked up an easy score — in and out, no one gets hurt. But it doesn’t go down that way.

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Episode 1: Who’s 40 Grand Not Tempting To? Feb 21, 2023

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Max B is a famous rapper in Harlem. Until one night changes his life.

Note: An earlier version of this episode misstated where Charly Wingate and Gina Conway first met. This version has been corrected to reflect that Gina was living in North Carolina and met Charly in South Carolina.

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Introducing Crime Show May 18, 2021

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Conviction introduces Crime Show, a new podcast from Gimlet that features stories of crimes, told by the people who lived them. In this episode, a social worker doesn’t hear from a client that she had placed at a boarding house. When she investigates, she discovers that her client isn’t the only one who is missing.

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Preview: How To Outrun A Panic Mar 31, 2020

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The final episode of Conviction: American Panic comes out next week.

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Preview: Believe The Children (Season 2) Mar 03, 2020

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Listen to this preview of Conviction: American Panic.

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Episode 1: Meet the Quinneys (Season 2) Feb 25, 2020

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In 1989, nine-year-old John Quinney accused his father Melvin of being a satanic cult leader and abusing him in satanic rituals. His father vehemently denied the charges. It was a case that tore their family apart. But what none of them knew was that they were just one of dozens of families going through the same nightmare.

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Introducing Conviction Season 2: American Panic Jan 28, 2020

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When John Quinney was ten years old, he took the stand to testify against his own father. He had come to believe that his dad Melvin was the murderous leader of a satanic cult. It would be decades before John would learn that his family was just one of many swept up in a panic that gripped America in the 1980s—one in which hundreds of people were accused of taking part in underground satanic cults that sacrificed infants and sexually abused children. By the time the panic had subsided, scores of people were in prison, convicted on little to no evidence—people like John's father. Conviction: American Panic takes you inside one of the darkest and most bizarre chapters of American history.

Conviction: American Panic premieres February 25.

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No Angels | S1 Ep7 Feb 04, 2019

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Pedro’s trial date finally arrives, and Manny sets out on another quest. Will he finally push the envelope too far?

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Right Past the Sun | S1 Ep6 Feb 04, 2019

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Manny takes some big risks that could get Pedro’s case dismissed—or could get Pedro into even deeper trouble.

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The Wrong Guy | S1 Ep5 Feb 04, 2019

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