Defence lawyer; co-founder of the Innocence Project
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Frontline, PBS, 4 December 2002 source ↗
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Defence lawyer; co-founder of the Innocence Project
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Frontline, PBS, 4 December 2002 source ↗
And all the while I was growing up, of course, there were just constant conversations about money and money being tight and how are we going to make ends meet and sometimes not having enough money. And it really just made me committed to living a life with much more financial security.
I always wanted to be a singer, but I also wanted to be a doctor. I almost got there: I did four years and got my neuroscience BSc.
My job hunting days were at the height of the bubble economy. At the time, I was focused on joining big corporations and had no intention of myself becoming an entrepreneur. I started working at a major bank with a vague idea that I wanted "a job that would take me around the world."
I wanted to play for Arsenal. When I have a kick-around with my boy, I still feel as if someone’s going to spot me.
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
I take great pride in the fact that we have a whole movement of people that are working on these cases, obviously, to get innocent people out of prison, and identify those who really committed the crime. But most importantly, it is a movement of criminal justice reform. And that we have made a big difference, I hope, in the system. We have prosecutors forming what we call “conviction integrity” units to try to look at miscarriages of justice and work cooperatively with defense lawyers to change the results. We are really trying to make some fundamental changes in the way the criminal justice system operates.
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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