02183cam a2200325 i 4500 552906043 TxAuBib 20220517120000.0 211026s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bc2044317831 9781636140308 HRD 29.95 1636140300 HRD 29.95 TxAuBib rda Fabricant, M. Chris. Junk science and the American criminal justice system [BOOK] / M. Chris Fabricant. Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2022] 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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. Provided by publisher. 20220517. Innocence Project. Racism in criminal justice administration United States. Judicial error United States. Pseudoscience United States. Forensic sciences United States. Judicial corruption United States.