Veteran technology counsel Tom Lavelle, J.D. ’76, has been named managing director of Santa Clara University’s acclaimed High Tech Law Institute. The High Tech Law Institute (HTLI) serves as the hub for numerous high tech law specialties, including intellectual property,…
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By Britton Schwartz, Clinical Fellow Santa Clara’s International Human Rights Clinic (the Clinic), in partnership with the International Justice Resource Center (IJRC), has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a case of first…
Exoneree and NCIP advisory board member Rick Walker was featured in Groundbreaking Report on the Cost of Statewide Wrongful Convictions on KTVU Fox 2. NCIP Executive Director Hadar Harris was featured in Panel to Consider Innocence Project Bills in the…
On April 12, 2016, nearly 100 people filled a classroom in Santa Clara Law’s Bannan Hall to hear three NCIP students recount their roles in Larry Pohlschneider’s exoneration. Leah Collins,’16, Thomas Levine, ’16, and Danny Wall, ’16, explained the history…
By Audrey Redmond Exonerating wrongfully convicted inmates and protecting the rights of the innocent are the core of NCIP’s work. NCIP currently maintains an active caseload of approximately 50 cases. The work is slow and often tedious. The following is…
By Karyn Sinunu-Towery In 1983, while in law school, I joined the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. I stayed for 30 years and was fortunate to have a very gratifying career trying cases and supervising divisions. For most of…
by Aaron Aguas-Rao On April 7, nearly 600 exonerees and innocence advocates descended upon San Antonio, Texas for the 2016 Annual Innocence Network Conference. Among them were a contingent of 13 NCIP attorneys, staff and exonerees, whose considerable involvement was…
Rick Walker was exonerated in 2003 after serving 12 years for a murder he didn’t commit. Since his exoneration, he has reconstructed his life by building cars, tiny homes, and a reputation as a humanitarian through his efforts to improve…
In response to the FBI’s admission of errors, NCIP to review California cases. By Todd Fries In April 2015, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stunned the criminal justice community by acknowledging that…