Sarah Rose Weinman
Host: National Immigrant Justice Center
Sponsor: Baker McKenzie
Charlotte Whitmore
- Hosted by Pennsylvania Innocence Project
- Service location Philadelphia
- Law school University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- Issue area Criminal Justice Reform
- Fellowship class year 2010
- Program AmeriCorps Fellows Program, Design-Your-Own Fellowship
The Project
Since the 1980s, over 240 people have been exonerated through DNA testing. These exonerations have shown that the most common factors in wrongful convictions – mistaken eyewitness testimony and false confessions – are not unique to cases involving biological material. My project will address the need to represent incarcerated people in Pennsylvania who have a genuine case for exoneration based on any type of exculpatory evidence and to reform the criminal justice system to reduce the risk of wrongful convictions.
The Inspiration
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Host: Americans for Immigrant Justice
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP, The Florida Bar Foundation