Prof. Francisco Rivera, Director of Santa Clara Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, joined dozens of leading human rights experts in a letter urging Mexican President to increase efforts to determine the whereabouts of 43 forcibly disappeared students from Ayotzinapa. The…
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By Audrey Redmond NCIP client Larry Pohlschneider walked free from Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy earlier this morning after 15 years of wrongful incarceration! Larry’s exoneration marks NCIP’s 18th victory since its inception in 2001. Please send Larry a welcome…
On October 1, 2015 Governor Brown signed into law Senate Bill 635, authored by Senator Jim Nielsen, co-authored by Senator Mark Leno, and sponsored by the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP). Senate Bill 635 increases exoneree compensation from $100 to…
“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?” – Rumi, Poet and Theologian In her recent book, Super-Better, Jane McGonigal considers the notion that life’s challenges can be vanquished by…
The Tehama County Superior Court in northern California has overturned the wrongful conviction of Northern California Innocence Project client Larry Pohlschneider after nearly 15 years of wrongful imprisonment for child molestation charges based on flawed medical evidence. Send Larry a…
NCIP client Larry Pohlschneider has recently had his conviction overturned.
Framing The Issue I find few things more energizing than a thoughtful discussion with exceptionally contemplative people. It’s not to say we all must agree: actually, most often, the best conversations involve moments of disagreement, in which my own ideas…
At Santa Clara University School of Law, our faculty are thought leaders adding innovative legal analysis to many of the current issues surrounding tech. Here’s a sample of how our faculty have contributed thought leadership in the past month: Robert Peterson…
“There’s got to be good guys and there’s got to be bad guys. That’s what people pay for. To see the bad guys get beat.” Sonny Liston, World Heavyweight Champion and Noted Bad Guy “The more difficult the task, the…