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EPISODE · Jul 27, 2026 · 57 MIN

337-Fixing Justice System Errors With John Hollway

from Politically High-Tech · host Elias Martin

Send us Fan MailWe talk with John Hollway about treating wrongful convictions as system errors and building a criminal justice process that aims for accuracy instead of blame. We dig into the repeat patterns behind exonerations and the practical fixes that reduce false confessions, bad forensics, and overconfident verdicts. • Defining “error” as convicting the wrong person and missing the right person • Why single-source eyewitness identification without corroboration is a major red flag • How false confessions happen and why interview framing changes outcomes • The limits of DNA evidence and the challenge of courts judging evolving science • Using root cause analysis and continuous improvement like other high-stakes systems • Confirmation bias in investigations and why intellectual humility matters • Burnout and underfunding across police, prosecutors, and public defenders • Why certainty of punishment deters more than severity • Restorative justice for low-level harm and what communities can learn from it • Homelessness, public order, and why “prison” becomes the default toolFollow John Hollway at ...https://www.johnhollway.com/If you enjoy this podcast, especially if you're reviewing an Apple podcast, give it five stars. Give a one reason why this episode is great. If it's one to four stars, how can this episode improve? Give at least one specific thing it needs to improve. Support the showFollow your host atYouTube and Rumble for video contenthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUxk1oJBVw-IAZTqChH70aghttps://rumble.com/c/c-4236474Facebook to receive updateshttps://www.facebook.com/EliasEllusion/LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eliasmarty/Some free goodiesFree website to help you and me https://thefreewebsiteguys.com/?js=15632463New Paperhttps://thenewpaper.co/refer?r=srom1o9c4glPodMatchhttps://podmatch.com/?ref=1626371560148x762843240939879000

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Send us Fan Mail We talk with John Hollway about treating wrongful convictions as system errors and building a criminal justice process that aims for accuracy instead of blame. We dig into the repeat patterns behind exonerations and the practical fixes that reduce false confessions, bad forensics, and overconfident verdicts. • Defining “error” as convicting the wrong person and missing the right person • Why single-source eyewitness identification without corroboration is a major...

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