• Exoneree and NCIP advisory board member Rick Walker was interviewed for Exonerated NorCal Man Now on Death Bed Waiting for Check from California on ABC7. • NCIP exoneree Larry Pohlschneider and Legal Director Linda Starr were featured in A…
On three different evenings this summer, NCIP exoneree Maurice Caldwell and Legal Director Linda Starr met with groups of 250 bright, committed and talented high school students from around the country who were participating in the Envision Intensive Law and…
NCIP is proud to announce its newly revamped website, which provides visitors a more effective way to learn about NCIP’s work and navigate the site. The new site features a clean, more visual design and improved functionality on mobile devices.…
By Jon Hart J.D. ‘15 Jon Hart is a Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) and Santa Clara University School of Law graduate. He recently completed a graduate research fellowship with NCIP after having taken both the beginning and advanced NCIP…
By Lucy Salcido Carter This summer has been active on the legislative front for NCIP sponsored and supported bills. One bill, SB 1186, has already been signed into law; NCIP is working with legislative staff to amend language on another…
By Todd Fries For three days in June, 19 people who were impacted by wrongful conviction gathered for NCIP’s transformative second restorative justice retreat at NatureBridge Retreat Center in the Marin Headlands. The retreat brought together people from across the…
By Ko’Fawn Jones, as told to Lucy Salcido Carter Luther Jones was wrongfully convicted in Lake County, CA, and spent 20 years in prison before he was exonerated and released in February 2016, gravely ill from health issues he developed…
By Lucy Salcido Carter The harms to exonerees from wrongful conviction and incarceration are impossible to quantify: years spent in prison, loss of family, death of relatives, lost educational and career opportunities, and loss of health are just a few.…
NCIP Spearheads Statewide Coalition to Review Microscopic Hair Analysis Cases NCIP continues to prioritize its review of California hair microscopy cases and is organizing a statewide coalition made up of California innocence organizations and pro bono law firm partners to…
By Lucy Salcido Carter In an unprecedented collaboration among California-based innocence projects and the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA), NCIP presented at a training forum for California prosecutors on June 27, 2016. The CDAA and the San Diego County District…
