The recent punishment meted out by the NFL to the New England Patriots[1] has forced us to revisit January’s DeflateGate scandal. Amidst countless articles, blogs, and discussion boards, this has all provided a platform to learn about ourselves and our…
Talk about using sport as a vehicle for getting at life’s bigger issues… Wednesday night at Santa Clara University, The Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) hosted the third annual ETHOS Award honoring initiative in the ethics of sport.…
Colorado recently became the 12th state in the nation to mandate best practices for eyewitness identifications in criminal investigations. SB 58, the Eyewitness Identifications Policies and Procedures bill, requires all Colorado law enforcement agencies to adopt written policies and procedures…
Be ON TIME Timeliness is a vital to your first impression. Show up at least 10 minutes prior to your scheduled interview in order to allow ample time to collect yourself, grab a coffee or water, and introduce yourself properly.…
The school year is quickly drawing to a close. Once finals are over, what are you going to do this summer? Hopefully you have landed a summer legal job, paid or unpaid, and you can skip Section “A” below and…
While having lunch last week with our school’s Academic Director, John Schafer, he related an endearing and telling story from his childhood. It involved what he recalls as his first discussion with his father about ethics. As they sat together…
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office under Jackie Lacey is launching a conviction integrity unit comprised of three prosecutors, a senior investigator, and a paralegal to address claims of wrongful conviction. The new unit follows a rise in wrongful-conviction…
NCIP Board Member Jennifer Thompson and exoneree Ronald Cotton were recognized by the Department of Justice at the Victims’ Rights Service Awards ceremony on Tuesday. Attorney General Eric Holder presided over the event, honoring Jennifer and Ronald for their extraordinary…
NCIP Legal Director Linda Starr interviewed with 1350 KSRO Newstalk of Sonoma County on Tuesday morning to explicate upon the Justice Department and FBI’s recent acknowledgment that for over a two-decade period before 2000, almost all examiners in an elite…
The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) at Santa Clara University School of Law has been awarded a $635,603 grant to continue its wide-reaching postconviction DNA testing program through August 30, 2016. The program, named the California Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance…