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Your article «Justice will be done» (12 May, p 44) deals effectively, but exclusively, with how to minimise wrongful convictions...

How does a lawyer get to be a an expert on wrongful conviction?

Young is also the director of the Innocence Project at Osgoode Hall, which teaches students how to investigate cases of wrongful conviction.

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The Department of Public Safety asked our Executive Director to be part of their 2015 Blue Ribbon Panel Discussion about the failure to disclose exculpatory information and how that leads to wrongful convictions.

The keynote will be followed by workshop sessions on a wide variety of topics of interest to criminal, juvenile, child welfare and mental health practitioners, including but not limited to the wrongful conviction and exoneration of Frederick Clay, litigating nursing home admissions, appellate advocacy, criminal case law update, how to use social science research in your case, the new sentencing guidelines, restorative justice, ensuring language access, advanced issues in Superior Court litigation, representing emerging adults, how to contest preliminary drug test results, a practicum on mindfulness, as well as the latest from the immigration impact unit.

These lawyers, many from large firms some solo practitioners, met for 6 hours each day and learned about the causes of wrongful convictions, what to expect in a state criminal courtroom, how to deconstruct a case, and post-conviction law.

We know how difficult correcting wrongful convictions is, which is why we also work to prevent them in the first place.

The more aware and mindful the public is on how easily a wrongful conviction can happen and the type of damage it can cause, the more careful people will be.

Massachusetts Wrongful Conviction Day October 2, 11:00 - 2:00 State House, The Great Hall, Boston Please join the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the CPCS Innocence Program, the New England Innocence Project, the Harvard Criminal Justice Policy Program, and the Boston College Innocence Program to find out why Wrongful Convictions happen, how they can be prevented, and how to better assist exonerees.

Check back as we get closer to Wrongful Conviction Day to find out how you can get involved.

Josh also touches on wrongful convictions and how they occur, the mission of the Exoneration Project, and much more.

Monday October 2, ASU Law School Beus Center for Law & Society 5th Floor, Room 544 5:30 — 7:30 pm: Program 7:30 — 8:30 pm: Refreshments Hear from various members of the criminal justice community on wrongful convictions, how they occur, and what we can do to help prevent them from happening.

Naughton, explaining his reasons for pulling the plug on INUK, said that it was «no longer acceptable that hundreds of students around the country can say on their CVs that they are working with an INUK innocence project when they know next to nothing about INUK or how to work on an alleged wrongful conviction cases».

This led to a public inquiry in Ontario in 1997 on how to avoid future wrongful convictions.

Professor Keith Findley, who is co-director of both the Wisconsin Innocence Project and the Criminal Appeals Project in the Frank J. Remington Center, published an op - ed titled «They Didn't Do the Crime, But They Did the Time: How to Better Prevent Wrongful Convictions,» in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.