We chatted with InnocenceCanada about KKW, Joe Exotic and whether or not celeb advocacy is helpful or hurtful to the justice system...and TBH, it kind of depends
‘s Michael B. Jordan. In the series of four PSAs, done in collab with Innocence Canada, Jordan talked about wrongful incarceration in Canada. “And essentially, within eight weeks, 2 million people saw these videos,” Emmonds says. “We reached more people in two weeks than we’ve reached in 25 years.
“What we really saw was [that], if we create the right partnership, if we get the right people involved, if they’re willing to leverage their celebrity and the name of our cause, then we can at least get that over that first hurdle with Canadians, which is getting them to understand that wrongful conviction happen.
“Celebrities can really shift the public perception on the problem of wrongful conviction,” Sodhi says. “But I think that type of advocacy or attention needs to be done really carefully because it’s such an influential tool.” Meaning, she says, that the information celebs are relaying needs to be accurate and evidence-based; “because a case that’s sensationalized is going to be placed under extreme scrutiny,” Sodhi says. “And you need to make sure that you’re not hurting the person’s claim.
Not to mention the fact, Sodhi says, celeb media attention might actually have the opposite effect on whether or not a case is looked at again, where the Crown and police may feel pressure to actually uphold a conviction.
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