University of Cincinnati College of Law Professor Mark Godsey, a leading scholar, attorney and activist in the Innocence Movement, will discuss his book "Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions" at a lecture at 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at the College of Law.
In "Blind Injustice," Godsey uses real-life examples from his career as a prosecutor and innocence lawyer to explore how memory malleability, confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance and other human frailties skew outcomes in the criminal justice system and in daily life.
"Blind Injustice" has been widely reviewed and acclaimed in the national media, including by The Economist, The New York Review of Books, Time, The Nation, Salon, and many others. The Cincinnati Opera will premiere Blind Injustice: The Opera in July 2019, and filming is underway for a television docu-series based on the book.