Supreme Court Advocacy and AMP v. Myriad Genetics– Chris Hansen, recently retired from a distinguished career at the National ACLU, will speak on “Association of Molecular Pathologists v. Myriad Genetics” (referred to as the “breast cancer gene” patent case), a…
“Born into a homophobic society, what are you willing to sacrifice to survive?” Simone, a young lesbian single mother, survives a brutal anti-gay shooting. Now she must choose between hiding with her daughter in Jamaica in constant fear for their…
A 34-year court employee in Kansas City was recently fired for giving a public document to a prison inmate that showed him how to properly seek DNA tests. The man, who then filed a motion seeking DNA testing which subsequently…
August 22 ~ Social Justice Workshop – Brandon Garrett (University of Virginia) Wrongful Conviction: “Judging Innocence” *Via Skype* at 4:10 p.m. in Bannan 333
This blog post was contributed by Marlene Bennett, Senior Attorney of the Health Legal Services, a program of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. For more information on how to be proactive with social justice opportunities, click here: http://www.lawfoundation.org/index.asp. Students planning to…
Those of us who have followed college football for years are not surprised to see the non-conference mismatches that occur each season. Simply put, some of the big football schools schedule the occasional game at home against clearly inferior opponents…
James Kluppelberg, who was wrongly convicted and spent nearly 25 years in prison before prosecutors dropped charges against him in 2012, was recently granted a certificate of innocence. According to the judge who granted Kluppelberg’s certificate, he now has a…
Best Wishes to California Innocence Project exoneree Brian Banks, who makes his NFL debut tonight with the Atlanta Falcons as they face the Bengals (ESPN 5:00 pm West Coast Time–8:00 pm East Coast). Banks has been working toward this moment since his exoneration in…
In June, our clinic signed-on to a coalition letter with ACLU regarding the use of solitary confinement in prisons. In this letter, we asked the U.S. Department of State to invite Professor Juan Méndez, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, to conduct a fact-finding mission…
In a recent opinion piece entitled “How ‘Sloppy’ Fire Science Sends Innocents to Prison,” Paul Bieber, founder and director of the Arson Research Project, speaks out against wrongful convictions caused by faulty fire science. There have been several cases in…