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Research
NEIP Amicus Briefs
List of Innocence Projects
(May not be a comprehensive list)
** Accepts national cases
ALASKA
Alaska Innocence Project
P.O. Box 201656
Anchorage, AK 99520-1656
ARIZONA Arizona Justice Project
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
PO BOX 877906
Tempe, AZ 99520-1656 Northern Arizona Justice Project
Robert Schehr, Chair
Department of Criminal Justice
Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 15005
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5005
ARKANSAS Innocence Project Arkansas
School of Law Legal Clinic
Robert A. Leflar Law Center
1 University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-575-3056 Midwestern Innocence Project
6320 Brookside Plaza #1500
Kansas City, MO 64113
CALIFORNIA California and Hawaii Innocence Project
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0422
University of California - Irvine
(not a project, but a resource)
William Thompson
Department of Criminology, Law & Society
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-7080
COLORADO
Colorado Innocence Project
370 17th Street
Suite 4500
Denver, CO 80202
303-863-1000
CONNECTICUT Connecticut Innocence Project
c/o McCarter & English
Cityplace I
185 Asylum Street, 36th Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
New England Innocence Project
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
DELAWARE Office of the Public Defender
Carvel State Building
820 French Street, 3rd Floor
Wilimington, DE 19801
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
FLORIDA Innocence Project of Florida
1100 E. Park Ave.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
GEORGIA Georgia Innocence Project
752 1/2 North Highland Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30306
IDAHO Idaho Innocence Project
Mail Stop 1515
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725-1515
ILLINOIS Center on Wrongful Convictions **
Northwestern University School of Law
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611 Medill Innocence Project
Northwestern University
1845 N. Sheridan Ave.
Evanston, IL 60208 Downstate Illinois Innocence Project
Institute for Legal and Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza
MS Public Affairs Center 451
Springfield, IL 62703-5407
INDIANA Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
Clinic, Wrongful Convictions Component
735 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202 IOWA
Innocence Project of Iowa
P.O. Box 93
Estherville, Iowa 51335 Midwestern Innocence Project
6320 Brookside Plaza #1500
Kansas City, MO 64113 KANSAS Midwestern Innocence Project
6320 Brookside Plaza #1500
Kansas City, MO 64113
KENTUCKY University of Kentucky Innocence Project
630 College of Law
Rm. 225
Lexington, KY 40506-0048
Kentucky Innocence Project
100 Fair Oaks Lane
Ste. 301
Frankfort, KY 40601
LOUISIANA Innocence Project New Orleans
3301 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
Phone: (504) 943-1902
Fax:(504) 943-1905 MAINE New England Innocence Project
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
MARYLAND
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016 Maryland Office of the Public Defender Innocence Project
Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland
201 East Baltimore Street
Suite 1600
Baltimore, MD 21202
MASSACHUSETTS New England Innocence Project
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
MICHIGAN Thomas M. Cooley Innocence Project
300 S. Capitol Ave. P.O. Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901 Michigan Innocence Clinic
1029 Legal Research Building
625 State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
MINNESOTA Innocence Project of Minnesota
Hamline University School of Law
1536 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104
MISSISSIPPI Mississippi Innocence Project
University of Mississippi School of Law
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677 Innocence Project New Orleans (operates in Louisiana and Mississippi)
3301 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
Phone: (504) 943-1902
Fax:(504) 943-1905 MISSOURI Midwestern Innocence Project
6320 Brookside Plaza #1500
Kansas City, MO 64113 MONTANA Montana Innocence Project
P.O. Box 8484
Missoula, MT 59802
NEBRASKA Nebraska Innocence Project
P.O. Box 24183
Omaha, NE 68124-0183 Midwestern Innocence Project
6320 Brookside Plaza #1500
Kansas City, MO 64113
NEVADA Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
358 South 700 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
NEW HAMPSHIRE New England Innocence Project
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
NEW JERSEY Centurion Ministries **
221 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
NEW MEXICO New Mexico Innocence and Justice Project
University of New Mexico School of Law
1117 Stanford NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131
NEW YORK Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School - Yeshiva University **
100 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
Second Look Program
Brooklyn Law School
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Pace Post-Conviction Project
Barbara C. Salken Criminal Justice Clinic
78 North Broadway, Room G210
White Plains, NY 10603 Reinvestigation Project
Office of the Appellate Defender
11 Park Place, Suite 1601
New York, NY 10007 NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence
Duke/University of North Carolina Law Schools
PO Box 52446
Shannon Plaza Station
Durham, NC 27717
OHIO Ohio Innocence Project
University of Cincinnati College of Law
P.O. Box 210040
Cincinnatti, OH 45221-0020
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma Indigent Defense System - DNA Forensic Testing Program
P.O. Box 926
Norman, OK 73070 Midwestern Innocence Project
6320 Brookside Plaza #1500
Kansas City, MO 64113
PENNSYLVANIA Duquesne Law Post-Conviction DNA Project
600 Forbes Avenue, 632 Fisher Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15282 The Innocence Institute of Western Pennsylvania
c/o Point Park College Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
201 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1984 Pennsylvania Innocence Project
Temple University Beasley School of Law
1719 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122 RHODE ISLAND New England Innocence Project
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
SOUTH CAROLINA Palmetto Innocence Project
P.O. Box 11623
Columbia, SC 29211
TEXAS
Texas Innocence Network
100 Law Center
Houston, TX 77204-6060
Texas Center for Actual Innocence
University of Texas School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705
Innocence Project of Texas
1511 Texas Avenue
Lubbock, TX 79401 Wesleyan Innocence Project
Texas Wesleyan Univesity School of Law
1515 Commerce St.
Fort Worth, TX 76102 UTAH Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
358 South 700 East, B235
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
VERMONT New England Innocence Project
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
VIRGINIA Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016 Innocence Project at UVA School of Law
580 Massie Road
Charlottesville, VA 22901
WASHINGTON Innocence Project Northwest
University of Washington
William H. Gates Hall, Suite 265
P.O. Box 85110
Seattle, WA 98145-1110
WISCONSIN Wisconsin Innocence Project **
University of Wisconsin Law School
Remington Center
Madison, WI 53706
WYOMING
Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
358 South 700 East, B235
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
Local Organizations
Boston Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service
16 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
The Lawyer Referral Service will make referrals to lawyers through the Greater Boston area for both civil and criminal cases.
Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service
20 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
The Lawyer Referral Service will make referrals to lawyers throughout the state of Massachusetts for both criminal and civil cases.
Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP)
29 Temple Place
Boston, MA 02120
Through the volunteer lawyers project, private attorneys contribute their services to eligible clients at no cost.
Greater Boston Legal Services
197 Friend Street
Boston, MA 02114
This legal service program provides free legal services to low income people in civil cases only.
Legal Advocacy and Resource Center
Telephone assistance only. (617) 742-9179
Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services
8 Winter Street
Boston, MA 02108
Committee for Public Counsel Services
44 Bromfield Street
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 482-6212
A fifteen-member body established by Chapter 211D of the Massachusetts General Laws to oversee the provision of legal representation to indigent persons in the Commonwealth. Most of the legal representation in nearly 300,000 cases annually is provided by approximately 2,400 private attorneys appointed by various courts.
National Organizations
American Bar Association's Pro Bono and Public Service Committee
Legal Help for the Poor and state by state listing of Pro Bono Programs
Centurion Ministries (CM)
CM is a non-profit organization headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey with a full-time paid staff of five employees, including an investigator in Seattle. The primary mission of Centurion Ministries is to vindicate and free from prison those who are completely innocent of the crimes for which they have been unjustly convicted and imprisoned for life or death.
Death Penalty Information Center
Justice Denied
The magazine for the wrongly convicted.
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels.
National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA)
NLADA is the nation's leading advocate for front-line attorneys and other equal justice professionals - those who make a difference in the lives of low-income clients and their families and communities. Representing legal aid and defender programs, as well as individual advocates, NLADA is proud to be the oldest and largest national, nonprofit membership association devoting 100 percent of its resources to serving the broad equal justice community.
The Constitution Project
The Constitution Project is a bipartisan nonprofit organization that seeks consensus on controversial legal and constitutional issues through a unique combination of scholarship and activism.
The Justice Project
A Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform.
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
The (NACDL) is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's more than 10,000 direct members -- and 79 state and local affiliate organizations with another 28,000 members -- include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system.
Truth in Justice
A non-profit organization working to free wholly innocent men and women convicted of crimes they did not commit, and to prevent wrongful convictions by educating the public regarding the vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal justice system that make these miscarriages possible.
Truth In Justice Foundation
Debbie Davis and Beth Albright as private citizens of the State of Kentucky started The Truth in Justice Foundation because there are no services to help those who are released from prison because evidence has proven the individual innocent. The Truth in Justice Foundation is a ministry bringing social services to these individuals and their family.
2007 Innocence Network Conference Materials
Starting an Innocence Project
Opening Plenary (Keynote Speaker John Lentini) - Defense Against the Dark Arts: Exposing the Numerology, Charms and Divinations in Conjured Up Cases of Arson
False Confessions
Preservation/Access Issues
Challenges of Litigating Non-DNA Cases
DNA for Dummies
Roundtable Discussion - Stages of Life after Exoneration: A Best Practice Model for Service Provision and a Framework for Future Directions
Advanced DNA: What You Need to Know About Y-STR and Mitochondrial DNA Testing
Tunnel Vision: Dealing with Overzealous Prosecutors in Innocence Cases
Other Resources
DNA Testing
Postconviction DNA Testing: Recommendations for Handling Requests
In 1999, the Department of Justice issued these guidelines. The report was written by judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and victims' advocates.
False Confessions
The Center On Wrongful Convictions - Causes & Remedies: False Confessions
http://www.wm3.org/html/ofshe/ofshe1_1.html
Jailhouse Snitches
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/about/pubs/morin/
(Canada's commissions)
Junk Science
http://www.innocenceproject.org/causes/junkscience.php
Innocence Commissions
NC Innocence Commission
CT Innocence Commission
Limits on Serelogy
http://www.innocenceproject.org/causes/serology.php
Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct
www.innocenceproject.org/causes/policemisconduct.php
http://www.lawmall.com/abuse/
Mistaken Identification
1999 NIJ Report, Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide of Law Enforcement
NJ AG Guidelines for Preparing and Conducting Photo and Live Lineup Identification Procedures
Report of the Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment
Issued in 2002 providing 85 specific recommendations, including recommendations to require videotaping of interrogations in capital cases, to review police procedures for obtaining eyewitness identifications, and to intensify the scrutiny of the testimony of in-custody informants.
Parole
Massachusetts Parole Program
Site of U.S. Dept. of Justice Parole Program
Poor Defense Lawyering
http://www.innocenceproject.org/causes/badlawyering.php |
