Our adversarial system currently accepts that some innocent persons will be convicted of crimes. This symposium will examine an entirely novel approach to substantially reducing the system failures that lead to such wrongful convictions: the use of pre-trial innocence procedures and bureaus meant to limit the number of convictions of innocent people, especially the indigent, by allowing defendants to establish their innocence prior to or at trial. Leading scholars and practitioners will examine whether or how such procedures could spare innocent defendants from long prison terms in a system where establishing a person's innocence following conviction is extremely difficult. The panelists will offer suggestions, critiques, and perspectives on the use of the new procedures and bureaus in an effort to identify the most effective method for exonerating the innocent. Papers will be published in a forthcoming issue of The New York Law School Law Review. 

When
Friday, November 5, 2010, 8:15a -5:30p

Keynote Speaker
The Honorable Theodore T. Jones
Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and Co-Chair of New York’s Justice Task Force

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