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The Value of Judicial Externships

Office of Career Management

This blog post is part of our ongoing guest Blog Series:  “Opportunity Knocks.”  For a full schedule, please see: http://law.scu.edu/lcs-blog/upcoming-blog-series-opportunity-knocks/ Why wouldn’t every law student apply for a judicial externship?  This is the question I often asked myself after working for

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Texas Man Exonerated After 20 Years in Prison for Wrongful Murder Conviction

Northern California Innocence Project

Daniel Villegas, 37, of El Paso, Texas was exonerated Tuesday after spending nearly 20 years in prison for a double homicide that he did not commit. In 1995, Villegas, then only 16 years old, was wrongfully convicted of the murders

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Members of National Commission on Forensic Science Announced

Northern California Innocence Project

The Department of Justice and Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced more than 30 members of the newly formed National Commission on Forensic Science. The commission aims to strengthen the validity and reliability of forensic

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Judicial Externships

Office of Career Management

This blog post is part of our ongoing guest Blog Series:  “Opportunity Knocks.”  For a full schedule, please see: http://law.scu.edu/lcs-blog/upcoming-blog-series-opportunity-knocks/ The summer after my 1L year I worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Socrates Manoukian at the Superior

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