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Jessica Henry’s Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press,
After its debut at #1 on Amazon, Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened was selected as the Montaigne Medal award winner for 2021 as the year's "most thought-provoking book."
Smoke but No Fire is a Winner!
From University of California Press. Released August 4, 2020. Paperback now available!
Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions.
The first book to explore this common but previously undocumented type of wrongful conviction, Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened.
A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect. A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute.
With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows—even encourages—these convictions to regularly occur.
Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, and activists alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.
Jessica S. Henry was a public defender for nearly ten years in New York City before joining the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair State University, where she is an Associate Professor and a frequent commentator on national television, radio, and in print media.
Jessica Henry’s Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press,
On this episode of Pursuing Justice, we’re joined by Professor Henry, who will talk about
We get into Trump’s arraignment with Jessica Henry (Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Montclair State
This week on Everyday Injustice, Jessica Henry talks about people who are convicted of crimes
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Jessica Henry, author of the book Smoke But No Fire – Convicting the Innocent of
Jessica Henry, author of the book SMOKE BUT NO FIRE, joins host Carly Gelsinger to
In the January edition of Montclair Public Library’s Check Us Out Podcast, Selwa interviews local
After her three month old son Ryan got violently ill, Patricia Stallings rushed him to
We’ve all heard about the cases of wrongfully convicted people going to prison for the
Amanda Knox interviews Jessica Henry, scholar, on the phenomenon of “no crime” wrongful convictions.
Exploring No-Crime Wrongful Convictions, Community Crime Prevention And Rise In Shootings. We hear from the
In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Henry speaks with the ABA Journal’s Lee
Joshua B. Hoe interviews Jessica S. Henry about her book “Smoke but No Fire: Convicting
Kathryn Rubino talks with Jessica S. Henry about the prevalence of no-crime convictions, some of
Jessica Henry’s Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press,
On this episode of Pursuing Justice, we’re joined by Professor Henry, who will talk about
We get into Trump’s arraignment with Jessica Henry (Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Montclair State
This week on Everyday Injustice, Jessica Henry talks about people who are convicted of crimes
Lean Into the Joy (with Prof. Jessica S. Henry) DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De’Ara cover
Jessica Henry, author of the book Smoke But No Fire – Convicting the Innocent of
Jessica Henry, author of the book SMOKE BUT NO FIRE, joins host Carly Gelsinger to
In the January edition of Montclair Public Library’s Check Us Out Podcast, Selwa interviews local
After her three month old son Ryan got violently ill, Patricia Stallings rushed him to
We’ve all heard about the cases of wrongfully convicted people going to prison for the
Amanda Knox interviews Jessica Henry, scholar, on the phenomenon of “no crime” wrongful convictions.
Exploring No-Crime Wrongful Convictions, Community Crime Prevention And Rise In Shootings. We hear from the
In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Henry speaks with the ABA Journal’s Lee
Joshua B. Hoe interviews Jessica S. Henry about her book “Smoke but No Fire: Convicting
Kathryn Rubino talks with Jessica S. Henry about the prevalence of no-crime convictions, some of
"Jessica Henry’s Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened drops an absolute bombshell on what we think we know about wrongful convictions by showing us how many of these cases never even happened in the first place. It’s unthinkable, and that’s just the sort of approach I look for in this area: something that really challenges our assumptions, that shakes us out of complacency and calls us to action.“ - M. Roessner
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