Sentences with phrase «innocence project»

This can also be taken from getting involved in innocence projects whereby groups of (normally) students work on real - life cases together to find grounds for appeal.

She began at Innocence Project of Florida as a criminal justice communications intern before accepting a position in fundraising and development.

In August 2011, James Figorski, a lawyer at the firm of Dechert LLP and a former Philadelphia police officer, filed a a PCRA petition on Mr. Thomas's behalf with The Pennsylvania Innocence Project as co-counsel.

Pennsylvania Innocence Project At Temple University Beasley School of Law 1515 Market Street, Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19102

Illinois Innocence Project University of Illinois at Springfield Institute for Legal and Policy Studies One University Plaza, MS PAC 451 Springfield, IL 62703

The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project works to prevent and correct the conviction of innocent people in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

The audience was filled with Innocence Project staff, board members, exonerees and supporters.

The following are profiles of the clients exonerated by Innocence Project New Orleans.

In addition to identifying and litigating cases for the convicted innocent, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project works to improve the criminal justice system to prevent innocent people from being convicted.

In August 2011, James Figorski, a lawyer at the firm of Dechert LLP and a former Philadelphia police officer, filed a Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) petition on Mr. Thomas's behalf with The Pennsylvania Innocence Project as co-counsel.

That 250 men have been exonerated by innocence projects around the country is a testament this fact.

Mr. Wu was an active pro bono contributor at Latham & Watkins, having done work on behalf of victims of domestic abuse, and assisting the California Innocence Project in its efforts to identify and exonerate the wrongly convicted.

They kept people like Demetrius Smith, the client of our affiliate University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic and former board chair Barry Pollack, from being able to clear his name in a case where he pled guilty.

Steve Wax is the Legal Director of Oregon Innocence Project, a program of Oregon Justice Resource Center.

• Innovation Fellow Bryan Wilson, who is developing a tool for innocence projects to more easily share pleadings and data.

A team with the Northern California Innocence Project based at Santa Clara University ended 12 years of dogged legal wrangling last week when their client was cleared of molestation charges that put him in prison and made him register as a sex offender.

UIS Illinois Innocence Project client who spent 22 years in prison acquitted after new trial in DuPage Co. arson murder case

The Philadelphia District Attorney and Marissa Bluestine, PA Innocence Project Legal Director, discussed the case on a morning news show.

Pennsylvania Innocence Project filed a Post Conviction Relief petition and sent a letter co-signed by Keal's daughter the District Attorney's Office, asking the DA's office and the Philadelphia Police Department to re-investigate the case.

Within the very short time - frame allowed by Pennsylvania law, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project helped draft and finalize Mr. Fogle's Petition for Post-Conviction Relief, arguing the newly available DNA evidence exculpated him from the crime.

MAIP, along with the University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic and pro bono counsel at Gilbert LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of Seward and consulted with his attorney, Booth Ripke of Nathans Biddle, about the case.

Steven Avery was previously a client of the Wisconsin Innocence Project who helped exonerate him of his 1985 conviction of sexual assault and attempted murder.

Joseph Lavigne, a client of the West Virginia Innocence Project at the WVU College of Law, has been granted parole.

Carrie Sperling participated on the panel «Focused Social Justice Writing Projects: Working on Innocence Projects» at the Legal Writing Institute Conference in Portland, Oregon.

The experience of the Innocence Network UK (INUK), the umbrella group for 20 - odd university - based Innocence Projects set to investigate miscarriage cases, might provide a cautionary tale.

He sits on the Board of Trustees of the New England Innocence Project, a litigation and public policy organization dedicated to the exoneration of wrongfully convicted defendants and the reformation of the criminal justice system.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project supports most of the Advisory Committee's recommendations.

The Jomati Foundation has provided multiyear funding to the University of Southampton's Innocence Project which centres upon the study of wrongful criminal convictions and provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to participate in real life pro bono legal work.

On the final episode, Koenig did mention one possible alternate suspect, but those who work for UVA's Innocence Project said in a podcast of their own that they are actually looking at several other people.

Join Innocence Project New Orleans on October 2nd to stand against wrongful convictions this #WrongfulConvictionDay!

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project began working with Ms. Smallwood after she wrote to us in 2009 asking for assistance in proving her innocence.

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Also at 6 p.m., the League of Women Voters of NYC and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams present «JUSTICE DENIED: Putting An End To Wrongful Convictions,» Innocence Project Staff Attorney Jane Pucher and Jabbar Collins, an exonerated victim of a wrongful conviction are scheduled to attend, Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St., Brooklyn.

«Because of the work of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office Post-Conviction Relief unit, Mr. Patterson did not even have to go to a hearing; they saw the injustice done and agreed to vacate his conviction,» said Pennsylvania Innocence Project Legal Director Nilam Sanghvi.

Carrington, the founding director of the Mississippi Innocence Project and Clinic at the University of Mississippi School of Law, joins the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles for this episode of the Modern Law Library.

Thanks to the persistent efforts of the Kentucky Innocence Project, Kerry Porter was exonerated after serving almost 15 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit.

Cino, associate dean for academic affairs at Georgia State University College of Law, has been working with The Georgia Innocence Project and a group of law students for more than a year to obtain a new trial for Devonia Inman.

Osgoode Hall Innocence Project Osgoode Hall Law School at York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada

Godsey also is faculty director of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice / Ohio Innocence Project.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project also represents Mr. Patterson.

On October 2, all day, University of Illinois Springfield campus, Illinois Innocence Project presents a installation of flags on the lawn representing all exonerees nationwide and an «I Stand With the Innocent» photo booth.

Oregon Innocence Project exists to shine a light on those broader problems and the causes of wrongful convictions within our justice system.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project only takes on cases from factually innocent individuals who have been wrongfully convicted and exhausted their appeals.