From Focus Features and L.A. Times Studios brand team comes the new podcast series, CONVICTED: ACROSS BORDERS. Hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark, we'll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials. Through these stories, we'll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration in foreign lands, how to navigate different legal systems when you don't even speak the language, and who one turns to when the closest help is thousands of miles away. Enjoy this sneak peek of the podcast, and be sure to listen and follow wherever you listen to podcasts. This is a paid podcast funded by Focus Features. The Los Angeles Times newsroom was not involved in the production of this podcast.
Hey there, trials of Frank Carson listeners.
If you're looking for the latest podcast to obsess over, I'm here to tell you about the newest podcast from Focus Features and LA Times Studios brand team.
Convicted across borders, funded by focus Features in support of the film Stillwater.
Convicted across borders, we'll do a deep dive into five individual cases from the 3000 Americans who are imprisoned abroad every year.
Most of those travelers experience little more than an inconvenience, a fun anecdote to tell their friends when they get back home.
But for others, that adventure abroad becomes a nightmare of epic proportion.
Hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark, you'll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials.
Through these stories, we'll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration in foreign lands.
How to navigate different legal systems when you don't even speak the language.
And who one turns to when the closest help is thousands of miles away.
Like Jason Porkow, a man convicted with no evidence against him and no prior criminal history of international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime in Nicaragua.
Take a listen.
So what I had done differently, not get arrested, kidnapped by the police, and thrown in a nicaraguan dungeon.
I would say I would recommend avoiding that experience if at all possible.
This is convicted across Borders, a podcast co produced by Focus Features and LA Times studio's brand team and funded by focus features in support of the film Stillwater.
I'm your host, Marcia Clark.
I've spent decades as a prosecutor and a defense attorney in the United States.
But each year, more than 3000 Americans are imprisoned outside the United States.
Many are wrongfully convicted, and many are told they will never return home.
Imagine what you would do in that horrific situation.