Brandon Garrett is one of the leading scholars on the problem of getting it wrong in criminal cases. Eyewitnesses who believe they know what they do not know, suspects who confess to crimes they did not commit, and the actually guilty parties who go free when convict the innocent: why and how does this happen?

This show’s links:


Brandon Garrett’s faculty profile, author page, and writing
Hold Up!, the (probably) one-off movie podcast we recorded
Oral Argument 44: Serial
Brandon Garrett, The Banality of Wrongful Executions
Brandon Garrett, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
Brandon Garrett, Contaminated Confessions Revisited
About Elizabeth Loftus
Oral Argument 48: Legal Truth (guest Lisa Kern Griffin), discussing Lisa Kern Griffin, Narrative, Truth, and Trial; see also links and discussion from Oral Argument 45: Sacrifice
James Liebman et al., The Wrong Carlos, a fascinating website collecting photos, interviews, and other evidence concerning the conviction and execution of Carlos DeLuna, who was likely innocent
This American Life, Confessions, Act One, an interview with Jim Trainum about botched confessions
Benjamin Weiser, Settlement Is Approved in Central Park Jogger Case, but New York Deflects Blame
National Research Council, Identifying the Culprit
Alex Kozinski, Criminal Law 2.0
About the Criminal Cases Review Commission
Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law
Special Guest: Brandon Garrett.