and the fight to overturn those wrongful convictions he weaves together the courtroom battles from mississippi to texas to new york. and beyond and mr. fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken racist justice justice system and the role that forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. and joining mr. fabricant for this conversation and moderating. it is allison leota montgomery county s own. she is a former federal prosecutor turned author who has been dubbed the female john grisham and also serves on the board of directors for the mystery writers of america and what i actually enjoy about listening to them in a few moments and the journeys that they have been on before becoming a lawmaker here in montgomery county. i used to be a journalist. i worked at cnn for 12 years and it s conversations like this that help inform me and help inform the public about what we need to do better to make our community a more fair and equitable place and to
the reason that we are here this afternoon, we re here to hear from mr. chris fabricant. who is the director of strategic litigation for the innocence project and one of the nation s leading experts on forensic sciences and the criminal justice system. mr. fabricant s book junk science and the american criminal justice system chronicles the prosecution of individuals who were found guilty of capital murder. and the fight to overturn those wrongful convictions he weaves together the courtroom battles from mississippi to texas to new york. and beyond and mr. fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken racist justice justice system and the role that forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. and joining mr. fabricant for this conversation and moderating. it is allison leota montgomery county s own. she is a former federal prosecutor turned author who has been dubbed the female john grisham and also serves on the board of directors for the myster
mr. fabricant s book junk science and the american criminal justice system chronicles the prosecution of individuals who were found guilty of capital murder. and the fight to overturn those wrongful convictions he weaves together the courtroom battles from mississippi to texas to new york. and beyond and mr. fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken racist justice justice system and the role that forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. and joining mr. fabricant for this conversation and moderating. it is allison leota montgomery county s own. she is a former federal prosecutor turned author who has been dubbed the female john grisham and also serves on the board of directors for the mystery writers of america and what i actually enjoy about listening to them in a few moments and the journeys that they have been on before becoming a lawmaker here in montgomery county. i used to be a journalist. i worked at cnn for 12 years and it s conver
new york, city christmas. ainsley: there is the all-american christmas tree out on the fox square. we were here late last night lighting the christmas tree. patriotic, all red, white and blue. cardinal dolan a rabbi here and minister. it was really special. steve: it absolutely was. as you look at it. this year, just like last year, it is fireproof. something else that we are doing a little different is we turned the light off at midnight now. because what we have found, apparently, is it draws people throughout the night. so, they turned it off at midnight and turn it right back on at 6:00 a.m. and we just turned it on so you can get a good look because it feels like thehoods right now 3 # degrees in new york city. brian: that s where i just learned something already, steve. i thought this was mayor adams demanding everybody shut down the lights to save money. shutting down library wrears and closing down museums. i just was wondering if this was part of the budget c
Besties from reese to kerry washington. Im so thrilled. More stars are sounding off about Harvey Weinstein. Some are finding their words backfiring. Kevin frazier joins frus the new york office with the story. Kevin . Nancy, as you can imagine, the weinstein scandal is a sensitive subject. Now mayim spp bialik and james corden are under fire. Its been weird watching Harvey Weinstein in hot water. Ask the women who watched him take a bath. Its weird. Reporter his jokes sparked backlash and this apology. Quo, quote, to be clear, saul assault is no laughing matter. I was not trying to make light of harveys inexcusable behavior. But to shame him. The abuser. Not his victims. And people responded to Mayim Bialiks comments. Several ax reszs slammed her. She wrote that she selfprotects against unwanted advances, quote, i dress 340destly. I dont act fir tashsly as a policy. Im deeply, deeply hurt if any woman or man things that in my way i was victim blaming. Reporter meanwhile, actress kate w