Nancy Petro

Nancy Petro is co-author with her husband Jim Petro, former Attorney General of Ohio, of False Justice - Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent—Kaplan Publishing, 2011; Peking University Press (Chinese Edition), 2012; and Routledge (Revised Edition), 2014. Following a career in marketing and business management, Nancy was awakened to wrongful criminal conviction when her husband became the nation's first sitting state attorney general to intervene in an Innocence Project case. The discovery that Clarence Elkins, a family man with no criminal record, was serving a life sentence for crimes he did not commit challenged the foundation of the Petros' beliefs about the criminal justice system. Since publishing False Justice in January 2011, Nancy has focused on writing about wrongful conviction and advocating best practices in criminal justice procedure.