W. Chris Fabricant: Junk Science and the American Justice System
Thursday, May 12 at 7pm
Carter Presidential Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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. 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.