Aarti Shahani

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Aarti Shahani was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She graduated in 2011 with a masters degree in public policy. She has contributed to outlets including The Washington Post, NPR, Salon.com, New America Media and ColorLines. Her interests are criminal justice, immigration and social entrepreneurship. As a News21 fellow at Arizona's Cronkite School of Journalism, she reported on transportation safety. She begins a Kroc Fellowship at NPR in Fall 2011. Shahani was born in Casablanca to Indian parents and grew up in Flushing, Queens.

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Case of New Orleans Cops Accused in Post-Katrina Civilian Shootings Goes to the Jury

Aug. 2, 2011, 5:26 p.m.

Closing arguments were heard today in the headline-making trial of several current or former New Orleans police officers involved in a notorious incident on the Danziger Bridge in which two civilians were killed and four more were wounded.

Q & A: A Prominent Advocate Presses for Better Investigations of Child Deaths

July 18, 2011, 12:58 p.m.

Dr. Carole Jenny argues for putting federal resources toward tracking pediatric maltreatment and for medical societies to crackdown on irresponsible testimony by forensic experts.

Casey Anthony Trial Shows the Limits of Forensic Science in Proving How a Child Died

July 5, 2011, 9:14 p.m.

The Casey Anthony trial riveted America, with many TV experts and viewers almost certain of the young mother’s guilt. But with no eyewitnesses or confession, the case demonstrated how difficult it was to prove to a scientific certainty how 2-year-old Caylee died.

Trial Opens of New Orleans Police Officers Charged in the Danziger Bridge Shootings

June 29, 2011, 12:46 p.m.

The case brought by federal prosecutors represents a critical test for the New Orleans Police Department, which has faced repeated criminal investigations and official inquiries concerning use of force and cover-ups.

The Child Cases

June 28, 2011, Midnight

As part of an ongoing look into the troubled state of death investigation, ProPublica, PBS “Frontline” and NPR identified nearly two dozen cases in the U.S. and Canada in which people have been accused of killing children based on flawed or biased work by forensic pathologists and then later cleared.

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