wrongful conviction

Popularized by his gripping thrillers, author John Grisham latest book is his second work of non-fiction. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions follows the stories of people falsely convicted of crimes, and the efforts to clear their name and return their freedom.

Early on Thanksgiving, 1983, three Baltimore teens were pulled from their beds and arrested for murder. They served thirty-six years in prison, but witnesses knew the truth: the boys were innocent. We hear how the Harlem Park Three were freed.

We go On the Record with a writer for The New Yorker and a Baltimore prosecutor to talk about the 1983 murder of a high school student, a witness pressured to lie on the stand, and three innocent men who served nearly four decades behind bars.

This year's One Maryland One Book pick is "Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence" by Tim Junkin. At 23…

The murder and rape of a young woman in Baltimore in 1987 led to the wrongful convictions of two men. Each served more than two decades behind bars, and…