Missing: A Boy and the Evidence Against His Accused Killer
Shortly after 7 a.m. on May 23, 2012, New York City detectives transported a disabled former construction worker named Pedro Hernandez from his home in Maple Shade, N.J., to an interrogation room at...
View ArticleDid The NYPD Push A Mentally Ill Man To Falsely Confess To Murder?
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly stunned reporters — and many long-time New Yorkers — when in May 2012 he said there was a break in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, one of the most well-known missing...
View ArticleMaking It Right for Wrongful Convictions
The Brooklyn DA is reviewing 50 cases that may have involved coached witnesses, coerced confessions, and other abuses of justice. Lonnie Soury, president of the advocacy organization...
View ArticleAfter 10 Years Behind Bars, A Wrongfully Convicted Man Fights for What's His
The relationship between law enforcement and members of the community is often strained, but sometimes that tension is more palpable when it comes to the dynamic between police and minorities.It's an...
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Is $1 Million a Year Justice for the Wrongfully Imprisoned?
Last month, the city reached a $40 million settlement with five men wrongfully convicted in the rape of a jogger in Central Park in 1989. It equals about $1 million for every year served. So how...
View ArticleDeath Penalty Debate Reignited After DNA Exonerates Two N.C. Men
The emergence of new information proved to be a game changer in the state of North Carolina—more than 30 years after being sentenced to death, Henry Lee McCollum and his half-brother Leon Brown emerged...
View ArticleCity Settles with Three Wrongfully Convicted Men for $17 Million
New York City has reached settlements in the cases of three Brooklyn brothers who served many years in prison for murder before being exonerated last year.The city is paying $17 million dollars to...
View ArticleBronx District Attorney Candidates Make Their Case
Attorney Robert Siano and Appellate Division Judge Darcel Clark are vying for a chance to be the first new district attorney in the Bronx in more than a quarter-century. It's a last minute race —...
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‘Making a Murderer’ convict Steven Avery files new appeal
Image courtesy of NetflixThe convicted killer featured in Netflix’s hit documentary series “Making a Murderer” filed for a new appeal Tuesday for his release.Avery, who was convicted in the death of...
View ArticleNetflix's 'Making a Murderer' Makes a Star
The massively popular Netflix series Making a Murderer explores the circumstances surrounding a homicide in small-town Wisconsin, and highlights the ways the criminal justice system failed defendants...
View ArticleStriving for Justice: DNA Test Comes Too Late to Save Two Men
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.The fairness of our criminal justice system has come under the microscope in recent years, and it remains one of only a few issues where...
View ArticleNnamdi Asomugha on Producing and Starring in 'Crown Heights'
Executive producer Nnamdi Asomugha joins us to discuss his film, “Crown Heights.” Asomugha also co-stars in the film which follows the true story of Colin Warner, a young man from Trinidad who spent 20...
View ArticleDefending Wrongful Convictions, The Latin Kings' Attempted Change from...
Lara Bazelon discusses her recent cover story for Slate, “The Innocence Deniers,” which looks at the role of prosecutors in wrongful conviction cases. Freelance reporter and former WNYC producer Sam...
View ArticleWhy Certain Prosecutors Pursue Wrongful Convictions
Lara Bazelon discusses her recent cover story for Slate, “The Innocence Deniers,” which looks at the role of prosecutors in wrongful conviction cases. While some prosecutors ask judges to dismiss cases...
View ArticleNovel Probes a Marriage and Wrongful Conviction
Award-winning author Tayari Jones discusses her new novel An American Marriage. It tells the story of newlyweds Celestial and Roy. Just as they are beginning their life together, Roy is arrested and...
View ArticleThe Faulty Science of Forensics
Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth discuss The Nation’s recent special investigation titled, “Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn't Science?” The investigation looks...
View ArticleHow a A Wrongful Conviction Put One Man on Death Row for 30 Years
In 1985, at the age of 29, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. He was innocent, but with no money to hire a lawyer and a racist judicial system at...
View ArticleSean Penn's Debut Novel, M.I.A. on her Autobiographical Film, How an Innocent...
Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn discusses his debut novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff." Physicist Leonard Mlodinow talks about his new book "Elastic," which explains the idea of “elastic...
View ArticleFrom Childhood Friends to Law School Colleagues, with a Detour to Prison
Marc Howard helped his childhood friend Marty Tankleff get out of prison; in turn Tankleff inspired Howard to embark on a legal career focused on exonerating wrongly imprisoned individuals.Now, they...
View ArticleAmanda Knox and VICE Examine Media's Mistreatment of Women
Amanda Knox spent four years in an Italian prison because of a wrongful conviction over the murder of her roommate and her story became an international sensation. She was freed in 2016 and is now the...
View ArticleTayari Jones's 'An American Marriage'
Author and professor Tayari Jones joins us to discuss her novel, An American Marriage, out now in paperback. The book tells the story of a young married couple struggling after the husband is wrongly...
View ArticleTayari Jones, 'Leaving Neverland,' Nari Ward at the New Museum
Author and professor Tayari Jones discusses her novel, An American Marriage, out now in paperback. Soraya Nadia McDonald, the culture critic for The Undefeated, talks about "Leaving Neverland," HBO’s...
View ArticleThe Longest-Running Murder in the History of New York State is Overturned
Timothy Sini, Suffolk County District Attorney, discusses the exoneration of a Suffolk County man who spent more than half his life in prison for a 1975 Long Island murder, plus other policing issues...
View ArticleReproductive Rights Roundup; Suffolk County Wrongful Conviction; Reclaiming...
Coming up on today's show:Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for Reproductive Rights and Health at the National Women's Law Center, and Marcela Howell, president of In Our Own Voice: National Black...
View ArticleReckoning With the Media's Role in the Central Park Five Conviction
Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise — otherwise known as the Central Park Five — were wrongfully convicted for allegedly raping and assaulting a jogger in...
View ArticleInnocence in Prison
The Netflix series “The Innocence Files” follows cases of wrongfully convicted prisoners whose cases are championed by The Innocence Project. Executive producers Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney and Roger Ross...
View ArticleA YA Novel About Wrongful Incarceration
National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam of The Exonerated Five, previously known as the “Central Park Five," join us to discuss their new book, Punching the Air , which is partly...
View ArticleSeeking justice in "Free Chol Soo Lee"
"Free Chol Soo Lee" explores the legacy of a 1973 murder in San Francisco's Chinatown and a young Korean immigrant who was initially convicted of the crime. Filmmakers Julia Ha and Eugene Yi offer a...
View ArticleCase Closed?
Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit podcast Serial, left prison this week after serving two decades for a murder conviction. On this week’s On the Media, Brooke speaks to the friend whose call to the...
View ArticleThe Release of Adnan Syed and the Limits of 'Serial'
Earlier this week, Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit 2014 podcast 'Serial,' walked free after a judge ruled that there were errors in the State of Maryland's investigation of his case. In 2000, at age...
View ArticleCrime, Panic and The Case Of The Exonerated Five
It’s been twenty years since five men who were convicted as kids in the “Central Park jogger case” were exonerated. Their story has resonance in today’s crime-panicked United States.In 1989, amid a...
View ArticleThe Suspect Detective
In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police...
View ArticleIn Bondage to the Law
On a summer night in 1995, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no eyewitnesses and almost no...
View ArticleThe Suspect Detective
In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police...
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