#149 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Arson Evidence
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
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?
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2009 Article in The New Yorker by David Grann
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science
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| 0:00.0 | My grandmother was murdered, likely with a candlestick. |
| 0:03.6 | I really think it's something new. |
| 0:06.0 | My family tried to find the killer. |
| 0:08.0 | A psychic got involved. |
| 0:09.6 | And asked, what if it was one of us? |
| 0:12.0 | He did this. |
| 0:13.2 | It's my hometown's greatest mystery. |
| 0:15.2 | There's nothing people in the Delta light |
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| 0:30.0 | America loves its founding fathers, |
| 0:32.0 | but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
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| 0:42.0 | Was there ever witnessed such a barefaced corruption |
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