FREEING THE INNOCENT | You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent - Justin Brooks

2023-03-21

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Send a text***TIMESTAMPS BELOW***For this episode I spoke to Justin Brooks, criminal defense lawyer, law professor, and the Founding Director of the California Innocence Project and recent author of “You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent”. ( https://www.amazon.com/Might-Prison-Though-Youre-Innocent/dp/0520386833) The book and our interview focuses on Justin’s work which is the exoneration of falsely-convicted prisoners for crimes up to and including murder.We spoke about the various...

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***TIMESTAMPS BELOW***

For this episode I spoke to Justin Brooks, criminal defense lawyer, law professor, and the Founding Director of the California Innocence Project and recent author of “You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent”.
( https://www.amazon.com/Might-Prison-Though-Youre-Innocent/dp/0520386833)

The book and our interview focuses on Justin’s work which is the exoneration of falsely-convicted prisoners for crimes up to and including murder.

We spoke about the various ways in which false-convictions can come about due to dishonesty, incompetence and/or errors from police, prosecutors and judges. Justin shares stories from his most prolific and shocking cases including false- r!pe allegations and decades wrongly spent in jail.

Justin told me about problems with cross-racial identification, how difficult it is to over-turn a conviction, the damaging effect that prison has on the falsely convicted and the role that race plays in American trials.

00:00 Intro
01:40 HOW DO FALSE CONVICTIONS COME ABOUT??
09:40 How Innocence Project chooses it’s clients
12:30 Brian Banks case (Justin’s most well known case, false r@pe case)
15:30 Marty Tankleff case (False confession case)
19:10 Prisoners lying about being innocent ??
21:00 Are most false convictions due to incompetence or dishonesty?
22:01 RACE
27:05 Should you NEVER speak to cops during interrogation ??
29:35 Repercussions for police/prosecutors/judges who act dishonestly ??
38:10 How difficult is to get an appeal going ?
45:10 Success rate
46:30 Detrimental effect of prison on falsely convicted inmates ?
52:10 Breaking the bad news to a prisoner you can’t get freed
55:25 DEATH PENALTY
59:35 How good is US justice system compared to others?