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Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard (HarperCollins, April 2013). Between 2007 and 2015, she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. Amanda hosted of The Scarlet Letter Reports, a VICE/Facebook series about the public vilification of women, and currently hosts The Truth About True Crime, a podcast series for Sundance/AMC that she produces and writes with Christopher. ------------------------------ Christopher Robinson is a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, a MacDowell Colony fellow, Yaddo fellow, and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. He is the co-author, with Gavin Kovite, of War of the Encylopaedists (Scribner, 2015), which the New York Times called "captivating," and Deliver Us (Alephactory, 2018). He currently produces and writes The Truth About True Crime with Amanda.

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Amanda Knox Interview: Shon Hopwood – From Bank Robber to Law Professor and Criminal Justice Reformer

“Most people that commit crimes are not evil”: An Interview with Shon Hopwood By Amanda Knox with Christopher Robinson On October 28, 1998, 23-year-old Shon Hopwood pleaded guilty to robbing numerous banks in Nebraska and was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. While serving his sentence, Hopwood ― who had no formal legal training ― became a jailhouse lawyer, and represented many of his fellow inmates in their appeals. Upon his release from prison in 2009, Hopwood went to law school at the University of Washington and Georgetown University. Hopwood is now an attorney, associate professor of law at Georgetown University,...

Amanda Knox Interviews Lorena (Bobbitt) Gallo

"If life gives you lemons, make lemonade": An Interview with Lorena (Bobbitt) Gallo By Amanda Knox with Christopher Robinson Lorena Gallo, formerly Lorena Bobbitt, became a tabloid staple and household name in the ‘90s when she was put on trial for maiming her then-husband, John Bobbitt. Her case was sensationalized, but it also brought domestic violence and intimate partner sexual assault to the forefront of national discussion. Gallo was ultimately found innocent by reason of temporary insanity resulting from the prolonged physical, sexual, and emotional abuse she suffered over the years of her marriage. Gallo has since become an advocate for domestic...

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“The good news is, there is a solution”: An Interview with #cut50 Co-founder Jessica Jackson Jessica Jackson is a human rights attorney and director and co-founder of #cut50, a bipartisan advocacy effort aimed at reducing America's prison population. She is also chief advocacy officer of Reform Alliance, an organization chaired by Meek Mill, Jay-Z, and Van Jones, which advocates for legislative changes in favor of the millions of Americans “stuck in the revolving door of probation and parole.” Amanda Knox I'd like to actually start by getting personal. Growing up, did you have any experience with the criminal justice system? Or were...

Amanda Knox Interview: Noura Jackson, Wrongfully Convicted at 18 Years Old of Killing Her Mother

Editor's Note: Noura Jackson's horrific story is told in Emily Bazelon's ground-breaking and prize-winning book Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (2019). “Justice hasn’t been served yet”: An Interview with Noura Jackson In 2005, 18-year-old Noura Jackson was wrongly convicted of stabbing her mother to death, despite the fact that no physical evidence linked her to the crime scene and instead indicated two to three unidentified perpetrators. In 2014, her conviction was vacated, but Jackson remained in prison while the district attorney considered trying her again. Eventually, the district attorney offered Jackson the controversial Alford...

Amanda Knox Interview: After 19 Years in Prison, DNA Evidence Led to His Exoneration

“We have some drivers that have had COVID-19, so we face that every day”: An Interview with Dennis Maher In March, 1984, 23-year-old paratrooper Dennis Maher was wrongly convicted of a spree of rapes that took place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts several months earlier. In 2003, after 19 years of proclaiming his innocence, DNA evidence exonerated him of each and every one of the rapes attributed to him, and Maher was freed. Today, Maher is a 60-year-old essential worker ― a diesel mechanic for the Massachusetts Department of Sanitation ― where he daily risks exposure to COVID-19. Amanda Knox  How are you...

Amanda Knox Interview: After 20 Years in Prison, A Detective Revealed that a Dirty Cop Framed Scott Lewis

“The disease, you just have to fight it”: An Interview with Scott Lewis Amanda Knox In 1995, 29-year-old Scott Lewis was wrongly convicted of a 1990 double homicide based on the testimony of an incentivized informant. Despite having an alibi for the time of the killings, Lewis was convicted and sentenced to 240 years in prison, later reduced to 120 years. He spent two decades fighting to prove his innocence, and his conviction was finally overturned in 2015 after a detective came forward testifying that a dirty cop had coerced a false statement from the informant. Today, Lewis is a real estate...