Description:

The Northern California Innocence Project’s fifth annual awards dinner honors individuals for their exceptional dedication to freeing the wrongfully convicted and innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bringing substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. The dinner program showcases the inspiring and poignant stories of those who fought to
regain their freedom and achieve justice system reforms with the help of the Project and our pro bono law firm partners and donors.

Purpose:
To raise the annual $1.5 million needed to run the Project’s pro bono clinical program. Money raised goes towards the Project’s efforts to represent indigent prisoners with claims of innocence, educate and equip our next generation of attorneys with practical legal skills, research the causes of wrongful conviction, and effect policy changes that protect innocent people from being convicted in the future.

Thursday, March 22, 2012 at the San Jose Marriott - 301 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113