Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a Companion Podcast from Netflix.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy and I'll be hosting this week's episode.

Here on You Can't Make This Up, but we go behind the scene. Becca Lervoy and I'll be hosting this week's episode.

Here on you can't make this up, but we go behind the scenes

of Netflix's original true crime stories with special guests.

We've got a special three-part mini series for you,

all about the innocence files. This documentary series

explores a few causes of wrongful convictions and was made in consultation with the

innocence project. In this episode we have Academy Award winning director Roger Ross Williams.

He directed the first three episodes of the Innocence Files which are all about

Bightmark analysis.

Bightmarks are considered by some to be junk science.

But that evidence is what sealed the fates of Levine Brooks, Kennedy, Brewer, and Keith Harwood.

Roger and I will be talking about how the criminal justice system works in the south, about Mississippi's former district attorney Forrest Allgood, and about the controversial dentist Dr Michael West.

There will be spoilers, so make sure you've watched at least the first three episodes of the Innocence

files.

And we recorded this interview in our separate homes, so there is a change in our normal audio quality. Thank you for understanding.

Now here's my conversation with Roger. The reason I am writing is to ask, can you help me?

I am serving a 40 to 60 year sentence.

As God is my witness witness I am not guilty.

We get flooded with letters from all over the country.

They're human beings who are claiming to be wrongly convicted. We realize that there was so many things wrongly convicted.

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