The Innocence Project's Nina Morrison Describes Wrongful Convictions

By The Chautauqua Institution • Mar 17, 2014

Nina Morrison, senior staff attorney at the Innocence Project, speaks on her organization's work to exonerate the innocent and reform a system responsible for many unjust imprisonments by telling the story of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 25 years.

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