#149 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Arson Evidence

#149 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Arson Evidence

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?

Learn more and get involved.

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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