The Human Climate: Carol Smaldino with Guest-Steven Drizin
Steven Drizen is a lawyer and professor of law at Northwestern University. He is the founder and co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions in Chicago. He is an expert on the dynamics of false confessions and in is work is a prominent advocate of innocent suspects as well as exonerees that often exit prison sentences with a plethora of life problems and traumas. Steven Drizin appears in his role of attorney in the documentary “West of Memphis” about the West Memphis 3, a trial that wound up being championed by Hollywood celebrities such as Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder. He is featured in the Netflix documentary “Making a Murder” that includes the stunning and disturbingly oppressive questioning of a then 16-year-old, Brendan Dassey. Steve Drizin and his colleague (and co-director of Center on Wrongful Convictions) Laura Nirider, has a podcast called Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions, that explores fascinating, upsetting, and at times positive and inspiring stories.