REGISTRATION AND AGENDA FOR THIS FREE EVENT
The criminal justice system sometimes convicts innocent people.* Several jurisdictions have established conviction review programs to ensure the guilty were convicted and the innocent go free. This groundbreaking symposium brings together prominent judges, district attorneys, defense attorneys and others to discuss the critical issue of conviction review and highlight various conviction review programs. Distinguished speakers include:
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Hon. Jeff Rosen, District Attorney, Santa Clara County, CA Kenneth Lynch, Assistant Head Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County, CA Catherine Kobal, Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, CA Brent Thomas Neck, Deputy District Attorney, San Diego County, CA Hon. Michael G. Nerheim, State’s Attorney, Lake County, IL Mark Hale, Deputy District Attorney, Kings County, NY Russell Wilson II, Former Director, Conviction Integrity Unit, Dallas County, TX |
Hon. Alex Kozinski, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Hon. LaDoris Cordell, Judge (ret.), Superior Court, Santa Clara County, CA Jeff Adachi, Public Defender, San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Gregory Taylor, Exoneree, North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission (NCIIC) Hon. Arnold O. Jones, Chair, NCIIC; Senior Resident Judge, Superior Court, Wayne County, NC Laurie Levenson, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School John Hollway, Executive Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice |
