Thursday, July 13, 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Elizabeth Cole, Esq. - Clinical Fellow, Michigan Innocence Clinic, University of Michigan Law School
The emergence of innocence work into popular culture came on the coattails of DNA evidence being used in criminal cases in the late 1980s, and has expanded rapidly around the country and the world since then. In 2009, the Michigan Innocence Clinic was created to take on the challenge of looking at other ways to prove someone’s innocence, and so became the first exclusively non-DNA innocence clinic in the country. MIC is a non-profit legal aid program that provides its services free of charge and is housed in the U of M Law School. The Clinic has tackled issues like shifted science, bad eyewitness identification, false confessions and statements, official misconduct and so on, succeeding on many of these along the way. Fifteen years and forty-one freed clients later, we continue to try to free innocent people from their convictions throughout the state of Michigan and educate on the ways in which wrongful convictions occur and how to prevent them.
Location:
Birmingham Next