This is part 8 and the final installment of a series called Reasonable Doubt. Read the other parts here. It’s a fact that most people don’t give prison a second thought. Many, like I did, just assume, somewhere in the deep recesses of their mind, that only bad people go to prison. They imagine prison as

This is part 7 of a series called Reasonable Doubt. Read the other parts here. In 1999, in the state of Illinois, death row inmate Anthony Porter won a stay of execution… just two days before he was to be put to death. The stay was based on a claim by his defense lawyers that Porter was

This is part 6 of a series called Reasonable Doubt. Read the other parts here. While many of the causes of wrongful convictions are surprising and sometimes even shocking, none are so much so to me as jailhouse snitches. I mean, what crack do you have to be smoking to think that a man who

This is part 5 of a series called Reasonable Doubt. Read the other parts here. It almost sounds like a slapstick comedy script. A defendant is on trial for a capital offence and faces the death penalty. His lawyer decides the trial is a great time to catch up on some sleep. Maybe the defense

This post is part of a series about wrongful convictions. To read the previous posts, click here. If you’ve ever been gobsmacked at the lies antivaxxers spout, or the idea that grazing on your own backyard lawn can cure cancer, or that 2 million people praying can somehow alter the collective consciousness of the entire planet,

Read Part 1 | Read Part 3 Last week, I wrote about why it’s so important for average citizens to understand what reasonable doubt is, and how a “not guilty” verdict is not the same as finding a defendant “innocent”. I want you to watch something, to recap what I said. The OJ Simpson trial,