A criminal pathologist. Then I saw a show called Quincy ME and realised I just wanted to play one on TV.

At 12, I wanted to be an architect, at 18, a writer, and now, at forty, an architect again. I’m powerfully drawn to everything related to building, but I also love ideas. These are my two passions.

A cellist, inspired by my mum and dad’s friendship with Jacqueline du Pré, and seeing a documentary about her.

I wanted my own ice-cream van and to be a lollipop lady.

I take great pride in the fact that we have a whole movement of people that are working on these cases, obviously, to get innocent people out of prison, and identify those who really committed the crime. But most importantly, it is a movement of criminal justice reform. And that we have made a big difference, I hope, in the system. We have prosecutors forming what we call “conviction integrity” units to try to look at miscarriages of justice and work cooperatively with defense lawyers to change the results. We are really trying to make some fundamental changes in the way the criminal justice system operates.

I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.

I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Most people think I'm mean, vicious and horrible. That's only because they see me cross-examining witnesses on television. In reality I'm known in legal circles as a big marshmallow.

I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.

I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.