M. Chris Fabricant is the Innocence Project’s director of strategic litigation, a leading expert on forensic sciences and the criminal justice system, and has been featured in the Netflix documentary The Innocence Files. A former public defender and clinical law professor, his public commentary has been published in virtually every major media outlet. Fabricant brings to his writing more than two decades of experience, including litigating death penalty cases in the Deep South to misdemeanors in New York’s South Bronx. CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab – forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers, and innocent people have been executed as a result. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (Akashic Books) chronicles the fights to overturn wrongful convictions and end the use of the “science” that’s destroyed lives. In this true crime narrative that includes courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City, Fabricant lays bare a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays to keep it that way. His insider view of the American criminal justice system includes stories of wrongful executions, corrupt prosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science.