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Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Arson Evidence
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Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Arson Evidence
Josh Dubin sits down with Barry Scheck, Co-Founder of the Innocence Project to discuss Arson Evidence.
Built on a foundation of conjecture and best guesses that were never adequately tested and confirmed according to any valid scientific principles, what Arson Evidence experts and prosecutors have been telling juries for decades, that one can definitively determine that a fire was intentionally set, is completely wrong.
But why, after generations of experts have all been proven wrong, is there still an unwillingness to change?
Image from the excellent 2009 Article, titled Trail by Fire in @NewYorkerMag by David Grann
Josh Dubin sits down with Barry Scheck, Co-Founder of the Innocence Project to discuss Arson Evidence.
Built on a foundation of conjecture and best guesses that were never adequately tested and confirmed according to any valid scientific principles, what Arson Evidence experts and prosecutors have been telling juries for decades, that one can definitively determine that a fire was intentionally set, is completely wrong.
But why, after generations of experts have all been proven wrong, is there still an unwillingness to change?
Image from the excellent 2009 Article, titled Trail by Fire in @NewYorkerMag by David Grann