We are a part of the University of Michigan Law School. But it has actually no formal relationship to the famous Innocence Project, the one headed by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld in New York. The Michigan Innocence Clinic is an innocence project.And I am now operating just with a staff attorney. I am now director because, as many of you know, Bridget McCormack was just recently elevated to the Michigan Supreme Court. So the Michigan Innocence Clinic is something that Bridget McCormack and I started in January, 2009 as co-directors.Susie Shutts, Shannon Leitner, and Klara Stephens are three current students in the Michigan Innocence Clinic. But I'll go ahead and introduce them and then I'll hand it off to them later. We're going to do a panel discussion after I give an introductory discussion about the wrongful conviction problem in Michigan.I'm really happy to be joined by three student members of the Michigan Innocence Clinic. Thanks all of you for coming out tonight.
Tonight we are honored to have the director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, David Moran, who's also a clinical professor at the University of Michigan Law School since 2008. CECILE DUNHAM: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.The Clinic has already exonerated several of its clients since its inception in 2009.For more information about Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads, check out the website at event is for adults and teens (grade 9 and up). Innocence Clinic students work on all aspects of the cases, including investigating new evidence, preparing state post-conviction motions, conducting hearings and arguing motions in conjunction with these motions, and filing appeals to the state and federal courts. Unlike many other innocence clinics, which specialize in DNA exonerations, the Michigan Innocence Clinic focuses on innocence cases where there is no biological evidence to be tested. In conjunction with this year's Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads which focuses on Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness" - Professor David Moran, Co-directer of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, and student lawyers Shannon Leitner, Susan Shutts, and Klara Stephens, discuss their work identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and their commitment to exonerating innocent individuals and combating injustice.At the Michigan Innocence Clinic at Michigan Law, clinic students investigate and litigate cases on behalf of prisoners who have new evidence that may establish that they are actually innocent of the crimes for which they have been convicted. When: Januat the Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that
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