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The COVID-19 virus and the resulting shelter-in-place orders may have limited our physical mobility, but the needs of Santa Clara Law’s clinic clients have not stopped, and neither have the clinical students. Throughout Santa Clara Law’s clinics, students continue to…
The book American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton won multiple prizes in the categories of history, law, multiculturalism and social change. In this program, retired judge, author and filmmaker Lise Pearlman will air a clip of her documentary…
Over the last few months, NCIP has made a strong effort to engage the Santa Clara University (SCU) community in our work. SCU faculty, staff, and students are critical collaborators in everything we do. Here are some of the things…
In all our work, we must always take the long view. Our cases take years, sometimes decades to resolve, and involve hundreds of hours of investigation, meetings with dozens of witnesses, and the filing of multiple pleadings. When we lose…
The Kettering Foundation and the High Tech Law Institute present… Co-sponsors: Center for Social Justice and Public Interest, Criminal Law Society, Leavey School of Business, and Northern California Innocence Project. We need lawyers, programmers, and social justice advocates!…
NCIP is ecstatic to be up and running in a new office located in Santa Clara Law’s Charney Hall. We are excited and grateful to continue our work to promote a more fair, effective, and compassionate criminal justice system under…
Over the last year, we have kept you updated on NCIP exoneree Maurice Caldwell’s quest for compensation for the more than 20 years he spent wrongfully incarcerated. Maurice was wrongfully convicted of murder in San Francisco in 1991, based primarily…
NCIP’s legislative efforts forged ahead this spring. NCIP’s priorities for this legislative session included postconviction discovery reform, improving evidence retention in criminal cases, implementing eyewitness identification best practices, and automatic compensation for exonerees. Below is a short synopsis of the…
NCIP at Santa Clara University School of Law is one of only three innocence organizations in California. No other law school in Northern California, and few other law schools in the country, offers students the experience of working directly with…
For the last sixteen years, Jeremy Puckett has been seeking justice. In March, 1998, Anthony Galati’s body was found on the side of a road in Sacramento County. Galati suffered two gunshots to the head, his hands were tied behind…