What Forensic Science Isn't

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 1, 2022

M. Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project and the author of Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (Akashic Books, 2022), talks about cases in which forensic "science" led to wrongful convictions and tries to push back on the idea (from shows like CSI) that forensics takes human error out of the equation.

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