Podcast Episodes

Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - The Birmingham Six

Season 12 Episode 9

The thing about torture is that it works, at least if your only goal is to find a scapegoat.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Birmingham, England. In 1972, two pubs were bombed, and six inno…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Roadside Drug Test Evidence

Season 12 Episode 8

Josh Dubin examines Roadside Drug Testing with Greg Glod, Criminal Justice Fellow at Americans for Prosperity.

Faulty tests, which cost police departments $2 a piece or less, are widely used across t…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - The Midnight Crew

Season 12 Episode 7

In Chicago, old habits die hard.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside one of the worst police abuse scandals in U.S. history. For decades on the southside of Chicago, a group of white cops …

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Coerced Confession Evidence

Season 12 Episode 6

Josh Dubin does a deep dive into the psychology behind Coerced Confession Evidence with David Rudolf, criminal defense and civil rights attorney, and co-host of the podcast Abuse of Power.

It turns o…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tyra Patterson

Season 12 Episode 5

The prisons are filled with people convicted of murder who never killed anyone.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Dayton, Ohio where a young woman’s false confession to robbery gets turned in…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Tool Mark Analysis

Season 12 Episode 4

Josh Dubin talks about Tool Mark Analysis with Tim Requarth, a freelance journalist who often writes about the intersection between science and criminal justice and a lecturer in science and writing …

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

Season 12 Episode 3

I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside a decades-long fight for the truth. The story of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown is living proof th…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Gunshot Residue Evidence

Season 12 Episode 2

Josh Dubin explores Gunshot Residue Evidence with Joanna Sanchez from the Wrongful Conviction Project at the Office of the Ohio Public Defender.

Of all the many faulty forensic sciences, Gunshot Resi…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Norfolk Four

Season 12 Episode 1

Norfolk 4

Four honorable men volunteered to fight for their country, but ended up fighting for their own freedom.

Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin, co-directors at Northwestern University’s Cente…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Keyontay Ricks

Season 11 Episode 26

S11E20: Keyontay Ricks

After being wrongfully convicted for the first time as a child and paroled from juvie, Keyontay Ricks got involved with mentoring at risk kids, including a 14 year old weed dea…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago