Episode #1521
Josh Dubin & Jason Flom
Books mentioned
Inside Rikers
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Josh Dubin, an Innocence Project ambassador advisor, and Jason Flom, an Innocence Project board member, discuss wrongful convictions, prosecutorial misconduct, false confessions, unreliable forensic evidence, and barriers to exoneration and compensation. They also examine cash bail, mass incarceration, racial disparities, the death penalty, and civic actions addressing these issues.
What they talked about
- Wrongful convictions and the Innocence Project
- Junk science in forensic evidence
- Clemente Aguirre's case from death row to exoneration
- Prosecutorial misconduct and withheld evidence
- Mass incarceration and cash bail issues
- Police interrogation tactics and false confessions
- Drug policy and racial disparities in arrests
- Lennox Lewis and boxing anecdotes
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