Mike talks to Mark Godsey, a former federal prosecutor who’s currently a professor of law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Professor Godsey is the co-founder and director of the Ohio Innocence Project, which is one of the most active and successful Innocence Projects in the country. He’s also the author of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions.
Topics Mike & Mark discuss include:
- the scope of the wrongful convictions problem
- the prosecutorial mindset and wrongful convictions
- main reasons for wrongful convictions
- how Innocence Projects work to free the wrongfully convicted
- making it easier to free the wrongfully convicted
- how to decrease wrongful convictions
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Great interview! One question, how does the very low percentage of cases going to jury trial (5% or so I have heard) play into this problem?
Good question. I think it does, given what Professor Godsey told me about the lack of resources for public defender offices.