Document Type
Video
Publication Date
2-15-2013
Keywords
Judicial error; Criminal justice, Administration of; Gavitt, David; United States
Abstract
David Moran, a clinical professor of law and the director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses how the new fire science, and the hard work of a group of law students, led to the exoneration of David Gavitt on June 6, 2012. In 1985, Gavitt was severely burned and his wife and two young daughters were killed in a house fire in a small town in Michigan. One year later, Gavitt was sent to prison for life based entirely on the testimony of forensic "experts" who claimed the fire was clearly an arson.
Repository Citation
Moran, David, "Crazed Glass, Alligatoring, and Other "Surefire" Signs of Arson: The Wrongful Conviction and Eventual Exoneration of David Gavitt" (2013). All Special Lectures and Symposia Videos. 1.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/video_lectures/1