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…
Panel discussion and Q&A, followed by reception Light refreshments served MORE INFO + RSVP Imagine you are in prison for a crime you did not commit. In Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope: Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction, exonerated former…
We are pleased to present NCIP’s Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Annual Report! Read it here. http://law.scu.edu/ncip/
Los Angeles county resident Susan Mellen, 59, was recently exonerated after spending 17 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction. Based solely on the false testimony of a woman with an extensive history of giving false information to law…
NCIP is proud to announce that SB 980, a bill that improves the process for obtaining post conviction DNA testing, passed the California State Senate today. The bill, authored by Senator Ted Lieu and sponsored by NCIP and other organizations,…
Jim Donato, Shearman & Sterling LLP partner, NCIP’s 2013 Pro Bono Award recipient, and NCIP former advisory board member will serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California. The Senate confirmed Donato’s nomination to serve on…
The Vermont Senate passed important legislation last week to help ensure that criminal investigations are as fair and accurate as possible. S184 is designed to reform eyewitness identification procedures so that lineups are given by an officer not investigating the…
According to a report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a record high number of 87 men and women who were wrongfully convicted of crime in the United States were exonerated in 2013. The National Registry of Exonerations is a…
30 years after wrongfully convicting Timothy Cole or rape, the city of Lubbock, Texas has installed a statue of Cole in an effort to honor Cole and recognize and remember the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Cole…
Washington state legislatures will consider two measures designed to preserve DNA evidence in felony cases. Senate Bill 6310 and House Bill 2468 sponsored by Sen. Jeannie Darneille and Rep. Tina Orwall, would establish an 18 month moratorium on destroying DNA…