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Brandon L. Garrett

Brandon L. Garrett is the Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the author of Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, published in 2011, and he is working on a new book examining why the American death penalty is in decline.

Trials and Errors

Forensics has turned Victorian detective stories into modern nonfiction, with lab-coated analysts flexing their Holmesian ability to zero in on tiny clues. The smallest detail—a stray crime-scene particle, a trace of biological evidence—can reliably nail the most serious of ...