California Senate Bill 1058, which would help exonerate innocent men and women who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, is headed to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk. Authored by Senator Mark Leno, the legislation would allow a judge to overturn a wrongful…
This past week has seen significant changes to the NCAA, both in terms of its governance model and in terms of its ability to restrict compensation to Division 1 men’s basketball players and Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) players for their…
Interested? Please fill out and submit this form: http://bit.ly/1syHE9r Santa Clara Law is again hosting the Western Regional Meet for the 2014 Intellectual Property LawMeet (the “Meet”) and would love to have you join us as a judge. The Meet is the country’s…
The legal publication The Recorder has named Laura Norris, assistant clinical professor and director of Santa Clara University School of Law’s Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic, as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in Tech Law for 2014. The honorees were chosen by…
The Marshall Project, a newly formed nonprofit criminal justice journalism group, wrote a story published in the Washington Post today revealing new evidence of misconduct by a Texas prosecutor that may have led to the wrongful execution of Cameron Todd…
This month, the Department of Justice ordered the continuation of a massive reinvestigation of thousands of criminal cases from the 1980s and 1990s that most likely include flawed forensic testimony from an FBI unit. The FBI post-conviction review started in…
When I saw the video of Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice dragging his unconscious girlfriend (now wife) out of a hotel elevator, my immediate reaction was that Rice would face significant legal issues as well as a lengthy suspension from…
After years of proclaiming his innocence of a rape in Texas for which he was convicted, Michael Phillips, 57, had done his time and resigned himself to a lifetime of registering as a sex offender. But he was exonerated by…
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