This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, May 25th, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Two men spent a combined 30 years in prison for raping two children.

Problem, they were innocent. And the story... years in prison for raping two children.

Problem, they were innocent.

And the story of how Kennedy Brewer and Levine Brooks

were convicted is spelled out in detail

in the new book, The Cadaver King and the Country

Dentist, a true story of injustice in the American South,

by Radley Balco and Tucker Carrington.

They detailed a story of two doctors who are

many more people away for long prison terms with bad science and dubious methods.

Who are Stephen Hayne and Michael West?

Uh, so Stephen Hayne is uh, the medical examiner who dominated the Mississippi autopsy business for about 20 years.

He's the Cadaver King from the title.

Hayne did somewhere between 1500 and 2,000 autopsies per year by himself from a private morgue

all while holding down to full-time jobs and testifying in court three to five times per week.

And just to be clear that the number of autopsies that he was performing is orders of magnitude more than was recommended.

Right. So the professional groups recommend about 250, 275 a year. If you do more than

325, they won't certify you. We talk in the book about a guy named Ralph Erdman for a long time was sort of the poster boy for, you know,

medical examiners gone wild, and he was doing about 400 per year.

So again, Hain was doing, you know, 1,500. about 400 per year.

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