When Bad Science Puts Good People in Prison
Constitutional Defenders
English - November 20, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGovernment criminal defense crime justice constitution law legal lawyer attorney criminal defense Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Join The Defenders as they speak with Marla Mitchell-Cichon, who is the director of the Western Michigan University-Cooley Innocence Project. Marla and her team represented Ledura Watkins - a man who was wrongfully convicted in 1976 of murder due largely to scientifically invalid evidence. Ledura spent over 41 years in prison until he was exonerated. In this episode, Marla discusses what led to Ledura's exoneration and the process that she and her team went through to help get him released.