3 chaptersForensic science
Hal S. Stern
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, UC Irvine; Co-director, CSAFE
Interviews
Conversations with
the people who revisit verdicts.
Junseo Lee's interviews with lawyers, psychologists and statisticians who work on wrongful convictions, forensic evidence and second-look sentencing in the United States and Canada, each read against cases from Korea.
All recordings on YouTube ↗Recorded conversations · 9
3 chapters
3 chaptersPost-conviction review · Sentencing & prosecution
Michael Parente
Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director, Post-Conviction Justice Project, USC Gould School of Law
Memory & testimony
Ronald P. Fisher
Professor of Psychology, Florida International University
3 chaptersPost-conviction review · Sentencing & prosecution
Jasmine Guerrier
Staff Attorney, The Second Look Project
Sentencing & prosecution
Emma Sherman
Mitigation Specialist, Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender
3 chaptersPost-conviction review · Sentencing & prosecution
Adelina Iftene
Associate Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University; Criminal Justice Certificate Coordinator
Wrongful convictions
Brandon Scheck
Legal Director, Innocence Project of Florida
4 chaptersWrongful convictions
Joshua Tepfer
Senior Attorney and Co-Director, The Exoneration Project, Chicago; Partner, Loevy & Loevy
2 chaptersSentencing & prosecution
Josh Rovner
Senior Research Analyst, The Sentencing Project
Korean parallels · 18
Each chapter of the notes pairs a point from the conversation with a Korean case that raises the same question. Open one to read it beside the moment it answers.
Hal S. Stern · Chapter 1
Hwaseong eighth murder case (1988)
Does matching forensic evidence actually prove guilt?
Read the chapter →Hal S. Stern · Chapter 2
Korean bloodstain-analysis research (2025)
Is forensic science always scientifically proven?
Read the chapter →Hal S. Stern · Chapter 3
Busan partial-fingerprint case
Why fingerprints are less certain than they look
Read the chapter →Michael Parente · Chapter 1
Yakchon intersection murder case (2000)
Why criminal justice should not focus only on innocence
Read the chapter →Michael Parente · Chapter 2
Article 72 of the Korean Criminal Act
Can a sentence that was just become unjust over time?
Read the chapter →Michael Parente · Chapter 3
Kim Shin-hye case (2000 to 2025)
Justice systems should never say never
Read the chapter →Jasmine Guerrier · Chapter 1
Korean sentencing research (2020)
Can the judge you draw decide your sentence?
Read the chapter →Jasmine Guerrier · Chapter 2
Korea's correctional rehabilitation programmes
Should prisoners be penalised for programmes they never had?
Read the chapter →Jasmine Guerrier · Chapter 3
Article 59 of the Juvenile Act
Should who someone is now outweigh what they did then?
Read the chapter →Adelina Iftene · Chapter 1
Human Rights Commission prison inspection (2022)
Is prison more than the loss of freedom?
Read the chapter →Adelina Iftene · Chapter 2
A prisoner's death and the 2024 findings
Should punishment account for what happens inside prison?
Read the chapter →Adelina Iftene · Chapter 3
Prison healthcare spending (2022)
Can sentencing be fair if judges don't know prison conditions?
Read the chapter →Joshua Tepfer · Chapter 1
Yakchon intersection murder case (2000)
Individual misconduct, or systems that protect it?
Read the chapter →Joshua Tepfer · Chapter 2
Samrye Nara Supermarket case (1999)
When does one wrongful conviction reveal a pattern?
Read the chapter →Joshua Tepfer · Chapter 3
Suwon homeless girl murder case (2007)
Why are teenagers so vulnerable to false confessions?
Read the chapter →Joshua Tepfer · Chapter 4
Kim Shin-hye case (2000–2025)
Why does correcting a wrongful conviction take so long?
Read the chapter →Josh Rovner · Chapter 1
Korea's age of criminal responsibility
Does someone become an adult on their 18th birthday?
Read the chapter →Josh Rovner · Chapter 2
School violence legislation
Should offenses tied to adolescence be judged differently?
Read the chapter →Also in conversation · 7
Further experts on the interview list. Recordings will be linked here as they are published.
Justin Brooks
Professor, University of San Diego School of Law; Director, USD Innocence Clinic; Founder, California Innocence Project
Recording forthcoming
Lauren Restivo
Clinical Instructor, Wisconsin Innocence Project, University of Wisconsin Law School
Recording forthcoming
John T. Wixted
Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Recording forthcoming
Lenora R. Popken
Staff Attorney, Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic
Recording forthcoming
Keith A. Findley
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School; Co-founder, Wisconsin Innocence Project
Recording forthcoming
Shih-Chun Chien
Associate Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Former Fellow, Fair and Just Prosecution
Recording forthcoming
Mark Godsey
Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law; Co-founder and Director, Ohio Innocence Project
Recording forthcoming