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Podcast: Legal Listening: The Fox Rothschild LLP Podcast
Episode: The Presumption of Innocence - Episode 40
Description: Episode 40
Debunking Courtroom Pseudoscience: A Conversation With the Innocence Project's Chris Fabricant
It’s a sense of outrage that gets him out of bed every morning, says M. Chris Fabricant, Director of Strategic Litigation at the Innocence Project.
Approximately 2.3 million people are incarcerated at any given time in the United States. Estimates put the number of wrongfully convicted at up to 5%, meaning tens of thousands of innocent people are behind bars for crimes they did not commit but were convicted of, often based on pseudoscience.
Chris, the author of Junk Science in the American Criminal Justice System, joins host Matt Ad...