In the past 30 years, more than 2800 innocent American prisoners have been exonerated and freed after being condemned for crimes they did not commit. A civil rights attorney who has defended the wrongly accused for decades, David Rudolf revisits unsolved murders, reveals the causes and consequences of confirmation bias, and exposes how poverty and racism fundamentally distort the system. Rudolf also offers new details from the Michael Peterson trial, made famous in the 2022 HBO series The Staircase.