Post by CCADP on Mar 10, 2006 2:51:27 GMT -5
HE FACES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTION: A COnference Examining Wrongful
Convictions and the Adminstration of the Death Penalty in California
April 7-9, 2006
Hosted by UCLA School of Law
The purpose of this conference is to illustrate both the problem of
wrongful conviction and the unfair application of the death penalty in
California and to mobilize for change. Since 1990, over 200 people have
been wrongfully convicted and exonerated in California. This conference
will facilitate the largest gathering of California's exonerees ever. In
addition, new research discussing the causes and prevalence of wrongful
conviction in California and demonstrating systemic racial and geographic
disparities in the application of the death penalty in this state will be
presented.
This conference will offer a series of workshops on the causes of wrongful
conviction (i.e., snitch witnesses, mistaken eyewitnesses, junk science,
etc.), problems with the death penalty, and opportunities for action.
Workshop topics will appeal to: (1) exonerees; (2) lawyers and law
students; and (3) activists. Panel speakers will include: prosecutors,
jurors, judges, the family members of murder victims, and the family
members of people on death row. This conference will also incorporate
film, art, drama, and a new book on California exonerees. The Exonerated
DVD
Cost: $24.95
Confirmed speakers include:
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, Co-Directors of the Innocence Project at
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and co-authors of Actual Innocence:
Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted;
Michael Radelet (University of Colorado), respected death penalty scholar;
and Stephen Bright, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
Lawrence C. Marshall (Stanford University), founder of the Center on
Wrongful Conviction at Northwestern Law School.
Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Susan Rutberg, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University
Elisabeth Semel, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Death Penalty
Clinic, Boalt Hall School of Law
Richard Leo, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
Richard Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center
Linda Starr, Legal Director, Northern California Innocence Project
Stephen Rohde, Partner, Rohde & Victoroff
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
Jeff Chinn, Associate Director, California Innocence Project
Craig Haney, Author of Death by Design, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa
Cruz
Sam Gross, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Stuart Banner, Author of The Death Penalty: An American History and
Professor of Law, UCLA
Dr. Lola Vollen, founder, Life After Exoneration Project and author of
Surviving Justice: Americas Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Michael Schill, Dean, UCLA School of Law
Rafael Perez-Torres, Professor of Chicano Studies/English, UCLA, author of
Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw: To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
Ellen Kreitzberg, Director of the Death Penalty College, Santa Clara
University School of Law
Daniel Medwed, Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah
Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the
Death Penalty
Gary Wells, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
Denny LeBeuf, Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana
Lynne Coffin, President, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
Ashley Ratliff, Author of "Addressing the Needs of the Exonerated"
John Eldan, Legal Director, Life after Exoneration Program (invited)
Glenn Pierce, College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University
(invited)
Eric DeBode, California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty
Thomas Sullivan, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Co-chair of the
Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment
Laurie Levenson, Former Prosecutor, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Alexandra Natapoff, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, Penn State
Rachel Dioso, Brenda Velasquez, Tiamoyo Peterson and William C. Thompson,
Authors of "Misuse of DNA Evidence: A Case Study (Robin Lovitt)"
Nancy Pemberton, Capital Case Investigator
Simon Cole, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
Rory Little, Professor of Law, University of California's Hastings College
of Law and Former Prosecutor
Donald Heller, Former Prosecutor (invited)
Chuck Patterson, Partner, Morrison and Foerster
Lance Lindsey, Executive Director, Death Penalty Focus
Tim Foley, Deputy Federal Defender
Richard Berk, Professor of Statistics, UCLA and author of "New Claims
About Executions and General Deterrence: Dj vu All Over Again?"
Cynthia Jones, Assistant Professor of Law at WCL, American University
Fred Tulsky, San Jose Mercury News reporter
Francisco Lobaco, Lobbyist for the ACLU of Northern California
Virginia Sloan, President, The Constitution Project
Linda Carter, McGeorge School of Law (invited)
Lynne Weathered, Executive Director, Australian Innocence Network
Nina Morrison, Staff Attorney, Innocence Project
John Holdridge, Director, ACLU Capital Punishment Project
Robert Schehr, Northern Arizona University
Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, Former President of the Los Angeles Police
Commission (invited)
Heather Weigand, Life After Exoneration Program (LAEP)
Assemblymember Paul Koretz - Invited
Robert Sanger - Invited
Elaine Enns - Invited
Bill Kurtis Invited
Ken Starr Invited
www.stopwrongfulconvictions.org/
Convictions and the Adminstration of the Death Penalty in California
April 7-9, 2006
Hosted by UCLA School of Law
The purpose of this conference is to illustrate both the problem of
wrongful conviction and the unfair application of the death penalty in
California and to mobilize for change. Since 1990, over 200 people have
been wrongfully convicted and exonerated in California. This conference
will facilitate the largest gathering of California's exonerees ever. In
addition, new research discussing the causes and prevalence of wrongful
conviction in California and demonstrating systemic racial and geographic
disparities in the application of the death penalty in this state will be
presented.
This conference will offer a series of workshops on the causes of wrongful
conviction (i.e., snitch witnesses, mistaken eyewitnesses, junk science,
etc.), problems with the death penalty, and opportunities for action.
Workshop topics will appeal to: (1) exonerees; (2) lawyers and law
students; and (3) activists. Panel speakers will include: prosecutors,
jurors, judges, the family members of murder victims, and the family
members of people on death row. This conference will also incorporate
film, art, drama, and a new book on California exonerees. The Exonerated
DVD
Cost: $24.95
Confirmed speakers include:
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, Co-Directors of the Innocence Project at
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and co-authors of Actual Innocence:
Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted;
Michael Radelet (University of Colorado), respected death penalty scholar;
and Stephen Bright, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
Lawrence C. Marshall (Stanford University), founder of the Center on
Wrongful Conviction at Northwestern Law School.
Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Susan Rutberg, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University
Elisabeth Semel, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Death Penalty
Clinic, Boalt Hall School of Law
Richard Leo, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
Richard Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center
Linda Starr, Legal Director, Northern California Innocence Project
Stephen Rohde, Partner, Rohde & Victoroff
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
Jeff Chinn, Associate Director, California Innocence Project
Craig Haney, Author of Death by Design, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa
Cruz
Sam Gross, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Stuart Banner, Author of The Death Penalty: An American History and
Professor of Law, UCLA
Dr. Lola Vollen, founder, Life After Exoneration Project and author of
Surviving Justice: Americas Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Michael Schill, Dean, UCLA School of Law
Rafael Perez-Torres, Professor of Chicano Studies/English, UCLA, author of
Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw: To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
Ellen Kreitzberg, Director of the Death Penalty College, Santa Clara
University School of Law
Daniel Medwed, Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah
Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the
Death Penalty
Gary Wells, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
Denny LeBeuf, Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana
Lynne Coffin, President, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
Ashley Ratliff, Author of "Addressing the Needs of the Exonerated"
John Eldan, Legal Director, Life after Exoneration Program (invited)
Glenn Pierce, College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University
(invited)
Eric DeBode, California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty
Thomas Sullivan, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Co-chair of the
Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment
Laurie Levenson, Former Prosecutor, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Alexandra Natapoff, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, Penn State
Rachel Dioso, Brenda Velasquez, Tiamoyo Peterson and William C. Thompson,
Authors of "Misuse of DNA Evidence: A Case Study (Robin Lovitt)"
Nancy Pemberton, Capital Case Investigator
Simon Cole, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
Rory Little, Professor of Law, University of California's Hastings College
of Law and Former Prosecutor
Donald Heller, Former Prosecutor (invited)
Chuck Patterson, Partner, Morrison and Foerster
Lance Lindsey, Executive Director, Death Penalty Focus
Tim Foley, Deputy Federal Defender
Richard Berk, Professor of Statistics, UCLA and author of "New Claims
About Executions and General Deterrence: Dj vu All Over Again?"
Cynthia Jones, Assistant Professor of Law at WCL, American University
Fred Tulsky, San Jose Mercury News reporter
Francisco Lobaco, Lobbyist for the ACLU of Northern California
Virginia Sloan, President, The Constitution Project
Linda Carter, McGeorge School of Law (invited)
Lynne Weathered, Executive Director, Australian Innocence Network
Nina Morrison, Staff Attorney, Innocence Project
John Holdridge, Director, ACLU Capital Punishment Project
Robert Schehr, Northern Arizona University
Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, Former President of the Los Angeles Police
Commission (invited)
Heather Weigand, Life After Exoneration Program (LAEP)
Assemblymember Paul Koretz - Invited
Robert Sanger - Invited
Elaine Enns - Invited
Bill Kurtis Invited
Ken Starr Invited
www.stopwrongfulconvictions.org/