Southern California Grandfather, Exonerated By California Court of Appeal, To Be Released Santa Ana, June 20, 2017 – After spending more than 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Guy Miles entered a People v. West plea and received time-served, neither...
After decades of exonerating wrongfully convicted people in California, there is now significant data to analyze and determine the causes of wrongful convictions and the responses within the counties where the wrongful convictions occurred. Have those counties...
The Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy (ICDA) at California Western School of Law has been focused on training attorneys (and future attorneys) all over Latin America for the last 20 years. In 2013, ICDA and CWSL received grant funds from the U.S. State...
Have you ever wondered what it takes to obtain DNA testing in a post-conviction case? Krystal R. Capasso, a former active duty Marine Corps Judge Advocate, wrote a law review paper detailing many of the issues surrounding DNA testing for the wrongfully convicted (the...
California Innocence Project Client Guy Miles Spent 18 Years in Prison For Crime He Did Not Commit Southern California Grandfather Exonerated By California Court of Appeal Santa Ana, January 19, 2017 – On Thursday afternoon, California’s Division Three of the Fourth...
What is Giving Tuesday? Following in the footsteps of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday has become an international day of giving during the holiday season. Giving Tuesday is always on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. This year, Giving Tuesday falls on...
“There is no greater honor than to receive a humanitarian award from a humanitarian organization,” said Justin Brooks, Director of the California Innocence Project at California Western School of Law in response to learning about Casa Cornelia honoring the project...
ALISSA BJERKHOEL Litigation Coordinator Biography Alissa Bjerkhoel, a native of Truckee, California received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and received her J.D. from California Western School of Law. During law school, Alissa participated...
New bill makes it easier for the wrongfully convicted to prove their innocence On September 28, 2016, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 1134 into law. This innocence bill, authored by Democratic Senator Mark Leno and Republican Senator Joel Anderson, makes it easier...
On October 4, 2016, the California Innocence Project will celebrate the Third Annual Wrongful Conviction Day at California Western School of Law. This year’s focus will be on compensation. 29 states have compensation statutes on the books. However, the...
