Upcoming conferences focus on wrongful convictions

Innocence Project Co-Director Peter Neufeld will speak Friday at a conference in Los Angeles on the causes of wrongful convictions and reforms proposed by the Innocence Project to stem the tide of injustice. More than a dozen other experts in the field will join Neufeld at the conference, which is hosted by the Southwestern University Law School.

More on Friday’s conference is here

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Additional upcoming conferences:

• March 14-15, New York, NY:

Litigating Eyewitness Identification Cases in the 21st Century

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The conference will focus on eyewitness identification procedures and proposed reforms to standards used by courts in assessing eyewitness evidence.

More information here

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• March 28-30, Santa Clara, California:

Innocence Network Conference

The annual meeting of Innocence Network members will feature presentations by leaders in the fields of DNA testing, post-conviction appellate litigation based on claims of innocence, false confessions, eyewitness identification and more.

More information is available here

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