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In 1995, a trag­ic fire in Pitts­burgh set off a decades-long inves­ti­ga­tion that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remark­able twists, Brown found him­self con­tem­plat­ing a path to free­dom that involved a para­dox­i­cal plea deal — one that peels back the cur­tain on the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does.