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NCIP Newsletter Winter 2016 |
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Finding of "Actual Innocence" for Larry Pohlschneider On November 24th, Tehama County Superior Court Judge Matthew McGlynn ruled that NCIP client Larry Pohlschneider was "factually innocent" of the charges that landed him a 24-year prison sentence and is thereby entitled to monetary compensation by the state of California. Learn more > |
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NCIP Launches 2016 Policy Reform Agenda In 2015 NCIP was pleased to sponsor Senate Bill 635 (Nielsen, Leno) to increase exoneree compensation and to support Assembly Bill 672 (Jones-Sawyer) to provide transitional services to exonerees post-release. NCIP looks ahead to its 2016 policy reform agenda. Learn more > |
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NCIP Students Examine Witnesses in Pohlschneider Hearing Sixteen NCIP students wrapped up the Fall semester of NCIP's year-long clinic. NCIP student Leah Collins provides insight into how her NCIP experience has begun to shape her legal career. Learn more > |
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Justice For All Awards Dinner - March 17, 2016 Reserve your seat for NCIP's Justice for All Award's Dinner, co-hosted by 49er Champions Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton and celebrating NCIP's 15-year anniversary. Honorees include Dean Strang, Elizabeth Zitrin, Maurice Caldwell, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. For details, click here. |
The Innocence Network is an affiliation of organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to wrongfully convicted individuals, and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions. It was a busy 2015 for Network affiliated organizations. According to a recent report by the National Registry of Exonerations, 149 people were cleared in 2015 for crimes they didn't commit -- more than any other year in history. Learn more > |
Pro Bono partnerships play a critical role in NCIP's success. This year, NCIP will be honoring law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP at its annual Justice For All Awards Dinner, for their tremendous contribution to NCIP's work. Learn more > |
Every month, an NCIP staff member contributes to NCIP's blog by providing their unique perspective on criminal justice issues. This week, NCIP Executive Director Hadar Harris provides perspective on how her previous human rights work ties into innocence work. Learn more > |
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District Attorney’s offices are increasingly creating Conviction Review Units (CRUs) to re‐examine questionable convictions and guard against future error. But not all CRUs are created equal. In a recently published report, John Hollway, Executive Director of the Quattrone Center on the Fair Administration of Justice at Penn Law, highlights CRUs around the country and what we can learn from the various ways CRUs operate. Learn more > |
Each CRU has unique requirements for deciding which cases will be accepted, reviewed, and investigated. But, the process that a case must go through within the CRU is uniform. A graphic representation of this “case funnel” from the submission to the CRU is illustrated above. Source: Hollway, John, "Conviction Review Units: A National Perspective" (2015). |
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