they started a movement, the innocence movement, and as result of barry scheck and the project, smaller projects bloomed, click one that loyola law school where i was employed to be the director. >> in los angeles. >> exactly. and so barry and i are connected because our client, the main client i represented when i was there, is a man improbably named cash register, my client, and there was an experience we went through, very small kind of scrappy innocence project of ex-en rating cash without dna, and that experience really changed my life in a number of ways. run of which was to think hard but not just the damage to cash, which was profound because he was convicted in 1979 and release fled 2013, meaning that by my life span, i was in kindergarten when he was convicted and my son was in kindergarten when he was released. but there was also this damage to his family and then also to the victims' family who never got justice because as you know, what happens in these chases victims are told a story, which is we got the bad guy and put away and then the story is not true. in the exonerati

my name is barry scheck. i'm cofounder of an organization called the innocence project. which is been around for 26 years. and is in the business of organizing efforts to exonerate people who did not commit crimes. but one part of our mission, is also to do our very best to try to take care of those who are victims of the crimes, as well as clients who are certainly, victims of the criminal justice system. and today, we are really privileged to talk with lara bazelon, who has written this absently fantastic book entitled, rectify, the power of distorted justice after wrongful conviction. hold up the mike closer. and booktv even with all of -- [laughter] so lara, probably the best starting point for this, first of all, how did you come to write this book? you started off in the law is doing what? >> i started off like you as a public defender. of the federal public defender. then after seven years, i joined a smaller innocence project that is a satellite. so -- being very modest distorted movement. they started the innocence movement. as a result of the project many other

my name is barry scheck. i'm cofounder of an organization called the innocence project. which is been around for

my name is barry scheck and i'm cofounder of an organization called the innocence project. >> yay. >>which has been around for 26 years. and has been the business of organizing efforts to exonerates people who didn't commit