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
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
Heres the hair from the crime scene. Im looking at them under the microscope and they have enough characteristics where i can say with reasonable scientific certainty that these two hairs match. They believed in what they were doing, but they were not scientists. It wasnt science at all. At all. Joseph was at least the 74th american exonerated of a crime in a case involving the Forensic Science of microscopic hair analysis. Its not science to visually examine something and say theyre the same. Thats not science. Thats subjectivity. The u. S. Department of justice is now reviewing thousands of old convictions containing hair analysis testimony. Last april, it released a devastating assessment. In the cases reviewed, fbi testimony about hair evidence was scientifically invalid 95 percent of the time. This is a virus that escaped from the Fbi Crime Lab and it infected the entire criminal Justice System and its going to take a lot of work to undo it. The integrity of the criminal Justice S