Professor Brandon L. Garrett discussed his book, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, which analyzes the first 250 criminal convictions overturned on the basis of DNA evidence.
Professor Garrett was joined by the Honorable Robert J. Cordy and the Honorable Nancy Gertner, who discussed the judiciary’s role in responding to the critical problem that wrongful conviction poses to our criminal justice system. Gretchen Bennett, executive director of the New England Innocence Project, discussed the Massachusetts General Court’s recent passage of SB 1987, which guarantees defendants post-conviction access to forensic and scientific analysis.
Moderator: David M. Siegel, Professor of Law, New England Law | Boston, and Trustee, New England Innocence Project
The following persons responded in print to Professor Garrett’s book in Issue 4 of Volume 46.
Brandon L. Garrett, University of Virginia School of Law
Simon A. Cole, University of California, Irvine
Elizabeth E. Loftus, University of California, Irvine
Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology
Richard A. Leo, University of San Francisco School of Law
Deborah Davis, University of Nevada, Department of Psychology