Justin Brooks, former director of the California Innocence Project, plans to shift his focus to an innocence project network he hopes to grow in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries
Tacoma A Pierce County man who uses a wheelchair and didn’t have proper access to a bathroom and running water in prison was held in “unconstitutionally cruel” prison conditions, according to the Washington State Supreme Court.
Wrongful convictions and dna revolution twenty five years freeing innocent | Criminal law cambridge.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cambridge.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stand With the Innocent: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice Reform
UW Law Professor Jacqueline McMurtrie, who founded the Washington Innocence Project, presented the University Faculty Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 28.
McMurtrie discussed government accountability, the ethical responsibility of lawyers and judges to acknowledge mistakes, and the importance of pursuing reform until our criminal justice system is truly just.
Watch a recording of the lecture below.
Jacqueline McMurtrie
McMurtrie is the UW Betts, Patterson and Mines Professor Emerita of Law. In 1997, she founded the Washington Innocence Project the nation’s third innocence organization and oversaw its growth from a volunteer-led effort to a clinical law program at the University of Washington. WashIP has exonerated 15 people who collectively served over 100 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, and it has successfully advocated for laws to protect the innocent.