The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library Presents M. Chris Fabricant - Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7:00 PM
Location:
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
441 John Lewis Freedom Parkway, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo.
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and A Cappella Books welcome the author and leading expert on forensic sciences for a discussion on his book, “Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System,” on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 7 PM. Fabricant will appear in conversation with Mark Loudon-Brown, Senior Attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights and Natasha Perdew Silas, Federal Defender and Co-Dean of the of the National Criminal Defense College.
This event is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the venue. Masks are required.
About the Book
From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in “expert witnesses” and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk science.
In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant’s clients. “Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System” chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the “science” that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo.
At turns gripping, enraging, illuminating, and moving, “Junk Science” is a meticulously researched insider’s perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions, corrupt prosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant’s true crime narrative.
About the Author
M. Chris Fabricant is the Innocence Project’s Director of Strategic Litigation and one of the nation’s leading experts on forensic sciences and the criminal justice system. Fabricant is featured in the Netflix documentary “The Innocence Files” and his public commentary has been published in virtually every major media outlet. A former public defender and clinical law professor, Fabricant brings to his writing over two decades of experience ranging from litigating death penalty cases in the Deep South to misdemeanors in the South Bronx. Born in New York City and raised in Sedona, Arizona, Fabricant has lived in Brooklyn since graduating from George Washington University Law School in 1997.
