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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. ....

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