Presentation & Signing: Junk Science & the American Criminal Justice System

The $19.95 event ticket reserves your seat and includes a book! The $5 ticket reserves your seat and will receive a $5 coupon upon arrival at the store that you can use for a purchase that night!

Walk-ins to this event are welcome but space is limited.

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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 “expertwitnesses” 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 junkscience, 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 toend 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, racistsystem 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, corruptprosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant’s true crime narrative. The paperback edition features a brand-new index as well as an updated introduction and final chapter chronicling theInnocence Project’s continued fight against junk science in courtrooms across America.

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 hasbeen 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 sincegraduating from George Washington University Law School in 1997.

BOOK REVIEWS:

“No one in America will ever know the number of innocent people convicted, sent to prison, and even executed because of the flood of rotten forensics and bogus scientific opinions presented to juries. In this intriguing and beautifully crafted book, Innocence Project lawyer M. Chris Fabricant illustrates how wrongful convictions occur, and he makes it obvious how they could be prevented.” —John Grisham, author of A Time for Mercy“An attorney uses the cases of clients who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned to question the status of forensics as reliable evidence, arguing that it is ‘subjective speculation masquerading as science, typically tilted in the government’s favor against an indigent person of color.’” —New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row“Fierce and absorbing . . . Fabricant chronicles the battles he and his colleagues have fought to unravel acentury of fraudulent experts and the bad court decisions that allowed them to thrive.” —Washington Post