Government,
Criminal
May 8, 2017
Governor Brown: please review clemency petitions
We have 800 and some days left in Jerry Brown's tenure to get this message to him. If anyone should be granted clemency, why are we not first looking at innocent people?
Justin Brooks
Professor
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar St
San Diego , CA 92101
Phone: (619) 525-7079
Email: jpb@cwsl.edu
American U Washington College of Law
Justin is director of the California Innocence Project. This column is excerpted from a presentation he made at TEDxSanDiego, which was replayed this month at a San Diego theater.
As director of the California Innocence Project, we review an overwhelming number of cases that come in our office every day. We look for just one thing - evidence of factual innocence.
To get a case reopened in California is an incredible task - to un-ring that bell, to get a court to say we're going to take a second look at this case. Even though this person has been tried and convicted, probably lost their appeals, and maybe even filed a couple habeas corpus petitions in prison, w...
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