Introducing Unraveled: Experts on Trial

Detective

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

ID has a new podcast for you to listen to. Introducing Unraveled: Experts on Trial, a part of the iconic anthology from discovery+.

“Unraveled: Experts on Trial” investigates an alarming problem within the American criminal justice process: the business of forensic experts. It is a crisis in the courts that is decades in the making. Citing several cases as examples, Alexis Linkletter and Billy Jensen expose serious flaws with forensic expert testimony that routinely leads to tragedy and injustice within the U.S. court system.

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0:00.0	It was a Thursday.
0:02.0	We left the gym somewhere around 915 or so.
0:06.0	When I got home and raised the garage door,
0:10.0	that's when I saw Kim.
0:14.0	She was laying in a pool of blood.
0:17.0	Once they decided that blood's fatter was the evidence,
0:22.0	nothing else mattered.
0:24.0	Imagine being accused of a murder that you didn't commit.
0:28.0	And you had to sit in court and listen to forensic experts
0:32.0	convince a jury that you are the killer.
0:36.0	I looked them dead in the eye and I said,
0:40.0	you're expert wrong, you need to get another expert.
0:43.0	Simply because somebody is accepted as an expert in court
0:47.0	doesn't necessarily mean that they know what they're talking about.
0:51.0	You could see the jury.
0:53.0	You see on the faces when this guy was testifying
0:56.0	a problem of pain.
0:58.0	We had to go through a lot of work to find out he was a complete fraud.
1:02.0	You have these sciences that are labeled forensic science,
1:06.0	but they are theories, they're myths.
1:09.0	You learn that the trial is dog and pony show.
1:12.0	All these people heard was lies.
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