The Supreme Court Gets It Wrong, and An Innocent Man Fights for Exoneration
The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 18, 2014
Marc Bookman, director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, talks about his feature for The Atlantic, “Does an Innocent Man Have the Right to be Exonerated?” In the 1980s, Larry Youngblood was wrongfully imprisoned for raping a 10-year-old boy. The way the Supreme Court handled his case had lasting consequences, where the chief justice wrote that the state was under no obligation to preserve potentially useful evidence for trial. Bookman tells the story of a crime, conviction, and what happens when the Supreme Court admits that it was wrong.
