Justin Brooks on You Might Go to Prison

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. Putting readers at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence. Join us when Justin Brooks provides a better understanding of how injustice is served by our system on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.