Everyday Injustice Episode 184: Wrongful Conviction For a Crime That Never Happened
b'This week on Everyday Injustice, Jessica Henry talks about people who are convicted of crimes that never happened.\\n\\nThere are a whole class of wrongful convictions \\u2013 some based on flawed forensic science, such as shaken baby or arson investigators.\\n\\nHenry also chronicles suicide being mislabeled as a homicide. And more nefarious problems such as corrupt police planting drugs on an innocent suspect. A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. Perhaps a false allegation of sexual assault for a consensual encounter.\\n\\nListen as Jessica Henry discusses why this problem underlies a deeply flawed system which allows\\u2014even encourages\\u2014these convictions to regularly occur.\\n\\nAnd it has consequences as people spend years behind bars for crimes that never happened.'