Smoke But No Fire: Investigating Wrongful Convictions

Nearly one-third of all known exonerations involve crimes that were later found to have never occurred. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people spend time in prison every day for fictional crimes. Join former New York City public defender and professor of justice studies Jessica S. Henry and Innocence Project State Campaigns Director Michelle Feldman to discuss the flaws in the criminal justice system that allow no-crime wrongful convictions to regularly occur. Touching upon the major themes of Jessica’s book, Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened, the conversation will dig into the scope, frequency, significance, types, and causes of no-crime convictions as well as highlight the systems that perpetuate these injustices. It will wrap up with a Q&A session to address your most pressing criminal justice system questions.