This TED Talk features clinical professor of law, Ronald Sullivan, recorded live at TEDx Mid-Atlantic

2016.

So imagine that you take a 19-hour, very long drive to Disney World with two kids in the backseat.

And 15 minutes into this 19-hour trip,

the immutable laws of nature dictates that you get the question.

Are we there yet?

So you answer this question 100 more times easily in the negative, but you finally arrive.

You have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful trip. You drive 19 long hours back home. And when you get

there, the police are waiting on you. They accuse you of committing a crime

that occurred while you were away in Florida. You tell anybody and everybody who will listen,

I didn't do it. I couldn't have done it. I was hanging out with Mickey and Minnie and my kids.

But no one believes you.

Ultimately, you're arrested, you're tried, you're convicted, and you are sentenced.

And you spend 25 years in jail until someone comes along and proves, has the evidence to prove that you actually

were in Florida when this crime was committed.

So I'm a Harvard law professor, and the last several years I have worked on winning the release of innocent people who've been wrongfully convicted.

People like Jonathan Fleming, who spent 24 years, eight months in jail for a murder that was committed in Brooklyn, New York,

while he was in Disney World with his kids.

How do we know this?

Because when he was arrested among his property in his back pocket was a receipt.

Timestamped receipt that showed that he was in Disney World.

That receipt was put in the police file, a copy of it was put in the prosecutor's file,

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