Law Practice,
Criminal
Jul. 12, 2018
Loyola’s Project for Innocent wins woman’s release
A woman convicted of killing her grandson in 2009 was released from prison under a deal resulting from an investigation by Loyola Law School’s Project for the Innocent.
From left, Hueston Hennigan LLP associate Michael Todisco, Hueston Hennigan partner Brian Hennigan, Loyola Project for the Innocent program director Adam Grant, LPI legal director Paula Mitchell, Hueston Hennigan associate Joshua Stein, LPI client Maria Mendez, LPI staff attorney Seth Hancock, LPI founder and professor Laurie Levenson, LPI attorney Megan Baca, LPI postgraduate fellow Arianna Price.
A woman convicted of killing her grandson in 2009 was released from prison under a deal resulting from an investigation by Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent.
The Los Angeles County district attorney offered to vacate Maria Mendez's original conviction for assault on a child causing death in the midst of an evidentiary hearing last month before Superior Court Judge José I. Sandoval.
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