Sunny Eaton is the Director of the Conviction Review Unit for the Nashville District Attorney’s Office, where she works to identify and correct wrongful convictions. Before that, she spent over a decade as a public defender and several years in private practice, representing clients across criminal, mental health, and small business matters.
She has a particular interest in building a trauma-informed legal system that allows lawyers to do this work without losing themselves in the process. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NBC News Now, and in The New York Times Magazine, and she has appeared as a legal commentator on Good Morning America and CNN.
Sunny is also an author, speaker, and thought partner to lawyers navigating the human side of this work.
Wrongful convictions and AI privacy may seem like separate issues, but both raise the same uncomfortable question: what happens when the legal system relies on old assumptions in a changing world? In...
There is a lot to consider when dealing with criminal law. In today’s episode, Zack talks with Sunny Eaton, director of the Conviction Review Unit in Nashville, TN, about what this unit...
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