Justice in America Episode 27: Junk Forensic Science Josie Duffy Rice and guest co-host Zak Cheney Rice talk with Radley Balko, opinion journalist at the Washington Post and author of The Cadaver and the Country Dentist, about faulty forensic science.
Arkansas Executed Ledell Lee. Posthumous Testing Will Most Likely Prove He Was Innocent, Lawsuit Says Lee’s family wants officials in Jacksonville, Arkansas, to turn over evidence that was used to convict and sentence him to death. The family says that evidence could posthumously exonerate him. Lauren Gill
The Appeal Podcast: The Cruel Roadblocks to Getting Innocent People Out of Prison With Daniel Harawa, assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Adam H. Johnson
Hundreds of Victim and Witness DNA Profiles Removed From New York City Database Advocates say the removals are more evidence of a troubling and unregulated law enforcement tool, overseen by the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Aaron Morrison
Why Are Prosecutors Still Seeking to Execute People Who Have Innocence Claims and Untested DNA? In these last two months of 2019, one man has been executed and two others are facing execution despite claims that they can show they don’t belong on death row. Lauren Gill
Judge Attacks NYPD Practice of Seizing Teens’ DNA Without Parental Consent The decision also held that the city’s routine storage of DNA profiles from nonconvicted people in a permanent database violates state law. George Joseph
Law Enforcement Takes Unearned Victory Lap for Capture of One of Their Own — The Golden State Killer Amelia McDonell-Parry
Symbolic “Justice”: California’s New Rape Kit Laws Fail to Address Existing Problems with Investigating Rape Dispatches is our series from organizers, attorneys, officials, and others working at the frontlines of local criminal justice reform. Heather Marlowe
Why Would Prosecutors Refuse DNA Testing? In this Oregon capital case, it could ensure that the state doesn’t execute the wrong man. Jessica Pishko
