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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: After 22 Years in Prison, DNA Evidence Led to His Release

“I'm not letting yesterday ruin today or tomorrow”: An Interview with Clay Chabot By Amanda Knox with Christopher Robinson In 1986, 27-year-old Clay Chabot was wrongly convicted of a rape and murder and sentenced to life in prison. Twenty-two years later, newly tested DNA evidence excluded Chabot and identified the real rapist and murderer. Chabot’s conviction was vacated, but instead of acknowledging the mistake, prosecutors were only willing to offer him a deal: plead guilty and be sentenced to time served. Chabot, afraid he might be wrongly convicted yet again, took the deal.  Today, Chabot lives in Florida and operates a small...

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Amanda Knox Interview: Their Mission is to Reverse the Most Unjust Sentences

The Guilty Project: An Interview with Mike Romano and Susan Champion On April 28th, the life sentences imposed on James Washington and Pablo Garcia under the infamous Three Strikes Law were vacated. After fighting their release for over seven years, in a stunning reversal, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office conceded that the two men, who had each already served over two decades in prison, should be released and their crimes reclassified as misdemeanors.  Mike Romano and Susan Champion, Director and Deputy Director of the Three Strikes Project based out of Stanford University, represented both Washington and Garcia in their resentencing...

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“Life Moves So Fast Out Here”: An Interview with Chester Hollman III In 1993, 23-year-old Chester Hollman III was wrongly convicted of the 1991 murder of Tae Jung Ho in Philadelphia. The state’s case rested entirely on false eyewitness testimony. He spent 28 years in prison before he was finally exonerated and released in July 2019. His story is featured in the new Netflix docuseries The Innocence Files. I reached out to Chester to learn what it was like for him to tell his story to Netflix, and to ask how he’s adjusting to freedom during the pandemic.  Amanda Knox   How...

Amanda Knox Interviews Exoneree Wrongfully Convicted of Killing His Parents

“Prisoners are humans as well”: An Interview with Marty Tankleff In 1990, 19-year-old Marty Tankleff was wrongly convicted of the 1988 murder of his parents. After spending over 17 years in prison, a new investigation uncovered the real murderers and his conviction was vacated. Tankleff is now a lawyer, professor, and advocate for criminal justice reform who has been speaking out for prisoners’ rights in the midst of the pandemic. Amanda Knox  Let's get into COVID-19. How are you surviving quarantine? Marty Tankleff For me, I guess, it's manageable. After being in prison for so many years, to me, this really isn't “quarantine.” I...

Amanda Knox Interview: “This Is Inhumane. It’s Craven. It’s Heartbreaking”

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