Mar 1, 2019
This episode features a guest lecture by Professor Brandon L Garrett, who visited the School on 29 January 2019.
Brandon L Garrett is a Professor of Law at Duke University, where his research focuses on the US criminal justice system. His books include ‘End its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice’ and ‘Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong’.
In this talk, Garrett discusses a number of high-profile miscarriages of justice, cases which exploited the use of established, but unreliable, methods of forensic science such as finger printing, bite mark and fibre analysis, to ultimately convict an innocent person.