Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Even at its best, the American criminal justice system occassionally convicts the wrong person. Kojo is joined by the founders of the Innocence Project, a pro-bono legal clinic that uses DNA testing to seek release and exoneration of wrongly convicted people.
Guests
- Barry Scheck Civil rights attorney; co-author of "Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted." (pub: Doubleday)
- Jim Dwyer Columnist for the New York Daily News; co-author of "Actual Innocence; Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted." (pub: Doubleday)
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