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Before It Was Popular, Philly Lawyer Crusaded for Convicts
Today, a vast web of attorneys advocate on behalf of those who claim wrongful conviction. But from the 1920s to the ’50s, Herb Maris, a corporate attorney with a public defender’s soul, stood nearly alone as he helped free scores of innocent convicts in Pennsylvania.