SMOKE BUT NO FIRE with author & Professor Jessica S. Henry [Part 1]

On this episode of Pursuing Justice, we're joined by Professor Henry, who will talk about the many cases of wrongful conviction where innocent people were convicted of crimes that simply never happened. She exposes a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows-even encourages-these no-crime wrongful convictions to regularly occur.Jessica Henry is an author, commentator, blogger and social justice advocate. She earned her JD from NYU School of Law and served as a public defender in NYC for nearly a decade. As a  professor at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, she was awarded the 2022 University Distinguished Scholar Award in recognition of her outstanding scholarship. She teaches classes on wrongful conviction, criminal law, hate crimes and death penalty perspectives. She is the author of: Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened, published in 2020.Click here to order Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened To learn more about Professor Henry and her work, you can visit her website: https://jessicahenryjustice.comThis podcast is proudly sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida. Visit www.floridainnocence.org for more information.