Other Innocence Projects
Other Innocence Projects and Post-Conviction Review Agencies (August 2007)
Canada
Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC)
85 King Street East
Suite 318
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1G3
Osgoode Hall Innocence Project
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
phone: 416-736-5174
fax: 416-650-4321
e-mail: innocenceProject@osgoode.yorku.ca
Alan Young, Director
ayoung@osgoode.yorku.ca
Innocence McGill
McGill Faculty of Law
3644 Peel Street
Montreal, QC
H3A 1W9
International - United States
Arizona
Arizona Justice Project
Larry Hammond, Esquire – Chair
c/o Osborn Maledon
2929 N. Central ave., Suite 2100
Phoenix, AZ, 85012
e-mail: azjusticeproject.org
Northern Arizona Justice Project
Robert Schehr, Chair
Department of Criminal Justice
Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 15005
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5005
phone: (928) 523-7028
California
California and Hawaii Innocence Project
Justin Brooks, Director
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
www.cwsl.edu/icda/i_Innocence.html
jpb@cwsl.edu
phone: (619) 239-0391; fax (619) 525-7092
Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University
Professor Kathleen Ridolfi, Executive Director
Linda Starr, Legal Director
874 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara, CA 95050
e-mail: kridolfi@scu.edu
www.scu.edu/law/socialjustice/ncip_home.html
Colorado
Colorado Innocence Project
James E. Scarboro
P.O. Box 2909
Denver, CO 80201-2909
e-mail: James_Scarboro@aporter.com
Connecticut
Connecticut Innocence Project
Office of the Chief Public Defender
30 Trinity Street, 4th Floor
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
New England Innocence Project
Joseph F. Savage, Esq.
Jennifer L. Chunias, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place, 53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
e-mail: coordinator@newenglandinnocence.org
Delaware
Office of the Public Defender
Lisa Schwind
Carvel State Building
820 French Street, 3rd Floor
Wilimington, DE 19801
District of Columbia
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
Shawn Armbrust, Project Director
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
phone: (202) 274-4199 or (202) 274-4162
e-mail: innocenceproject@wcl.american.edu
Florida
Innocence Project of Florida
Jenny Greenberg, Director
1100 E. Park Ave.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
(850) 561-6767
jgreenberg@floridainnocence.org
Georgia
Georgia Innocence Project
Aimee Maxwell, Executive Director
752 1/2 North Highland Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30306
e-mail: lisa@ga-innocenceproject.org,
Idaho
Idaho Innocence Project
Greg Hampikian
Idaho Innocence Project MS1515
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725-1515
e-mail: idahoinnocenceproject@boisestate.edu
Illinois
Center on Wrongful Convictions **
Rob Warden, Executive Director
Steve Drizin, Legal Director
Northwestern University School of Law
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 503 - 2391
www.centeronwrongfulconvictions.org
cwc@law.northwestern.edu
Medill Innocence Project
David Protess, Director
Northwestern University
1845 N. Sheridan Ave.
Evanston, IL 60208
d-protess@northwestern.edu
phone: (847) 491-5840
Downstate Illinois Innocence Project
Institute for Legal and Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza
MS Public Affairs Center 451
Springfield, IL 62703-5407
Primary Contact: Nancy Ford, Co-Director
Indiana
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
Fran Hardy, Professor of Law
735 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Iowa
Iowa/Nebraska Innocence Project
Tom Lustgraaf
Creighton University School of Law
712.322.2002, Iowa
P.O. Box 1874
Council-Bluffs, IA 51501
Kentucky
University of Kentucky Innocence Project
Roberta M. Harding, Professor of Law
University of Kentucky College of Law
209 Law Building
Lexington, KY 40506-0048
Kentucky Innocence Project
100 Fair Oaks Lane Suite 301
Frankfort, KY , 40601
phone: (502 ) 564-3948
Louisiana
Innocence Project New Orleans
Emily Maw, Legal Director
636 Baronne Street, 2nd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70113
info@ip-no.org
Maryland
Maryland Office of the Public Defender Innocence Project
Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland
201 East Baltimore Street, Suite 1600
Baltimore, MD 21202
Primary Contact: Michele Nethercott, Chief Attorney
Michigan
Thomas M. Cooley Innocence Project
300 S. Capitol Ave.
P.O. Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901
Minnesota
Innocence Project of Minnesota
Erika Applebaum
Hamline University School of Law
1536 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104
phone: (651)523-3152
e-mail: eapplebaum@ipmn.org
www.ipmn.org
Mississippi
Innocence Project New Orleans (operates in LA and MS)
Emily Maw, Legal Director
Case Review Manager
636 Baronne Street, 2nd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70113
Phone: (504) 522-IPNO (4766) or 4767
Fax: (504) 558-0378
info@ip-no.org
Missouri
The Midwestern Innocence Project
6320 Brookside Plaza, #1500
Kansas City, MO 64113
www.innocenceprojectmidwest.org
e-mail: office@innocenceprojectmidwest.org
Nebraska
Iowa/Nebraska Innocence Project
Creighton University School of Law
Darlene Madison
e-mail: scheherazod@tconl.com
12230 Gail Ave., 68137
phone: (402) 896-1973
Nevada
Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
Jensie Anderson, President
Katie Monroe, Executive Director
358 South 700 East, B235
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
phone: (801) 581-4661
New Hampshire
New England Innocence Project
Joseph F. Savage, Esq.
Jennifer L. Chunias, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place, 53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
www.newenglandinnocence.org
New Jersey
Centurion Ministries
Rev. Jim McCloskey
Kate Germond
221 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08542 - 3215
New Mexico
New Mexico Innocence and Justice Project
Professor April Land, Director
land@law.unm.edu
University of New Mexico School of Law
1117 Stanford NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131
www.lawschool.unm.edu/student_organs/ijp/about.htm
New York
Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School - Yeshiva University
100 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
info@innocenceproject.org
212.364.5340
Barry C. Scheck & Peter J. Neufeld, directors
Madeline deLone, executive director
Second Look Program
Professor Will Hellerstein
Daniel Medwed
Brooklyn Law School
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
http://www.truthinjustice.org/index.htm
truthinjusticeproject@yahoo.com
Pace Post-Conviction Project
78 North Broadway, Room G210
White Plains, NY 10603
North Carolina
North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence
Duke/University of North Carolina Law Schools
Pete Weitzel, Executive Director
PO Box 52446
Shannon Plaza Station
Durham, NC 27717-2446
Ohio
Ohio Innocence Project
23240 Chagrin Blvd, Ste. 525
Cleveland, OH, 44122
Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center
Case Western Reserve University
School of Law
11075 East Blvd
Cleveland, OH
44106-7148
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Indigent Defense System - DNA Forensic Testing Program
Julie Gardner
P.O. Box 926
Norman, OK 73070
Pennsylvania
Duquesne Law Post-Conviction DNA Project
600 Forbes Avenue, 632 Fisher Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
The Innocence Institute of Western Pennsylvania
Bill Moushey, Director, e-mail: bmoushey@pointpark.edu
c/o Point Park College Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
201 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1984
phone: (412) 765-3164
www.pointpark.edu
Rhode Island
New England Innocence Project
Joseph F. Savage, Esq.
Jennifer L. Chunias, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place, 53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
South Carolina
Palmetto Innocence Project
Joseph M. McCulloch
P.O. Box 11623
Columbia, SC 29211
Texas
Texas Innocence Network
David Dow, Professor
100 Law Center
Houston, TX 77204-6060
phone: (713) 743-7552
e-mail: innocence@central.uh.edu
Texas Center for Actual Innocence
University of Texas School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705
Bill Allison, Director
ballison@mail.law.utexas.edu
phone: (512) 232-1463
Innocence Project of Texas
1304 Texas Avenue
Lubbock, TX 79401
Wesleyan Innocence Project
Professor Aric Short
1515 Commerce St.
Fort Worth, TX 76102
phone: (800) 733-9529
Utah
Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
Jensie Anderson, President
Katie Monroe, Executive Director
358 South 700 East, B235
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
phone: (801: 581-4661
Vermont
New England Innocence Project
Joseph F. Savage, Esq.
Jennifer L. Chunias, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place, 53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
www.newenglandinnocence.org
Virginia
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
Shawn Armbrust, Project Director
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
phone: (202) 274-4199 or (202) 274-4162
innocenceproject@wcl.american.edu
Washington
Innocence Project Northwest
Professor Jackie McMurtrie
University of Washington
School of Law
William H. Gates Hall, Suite 265
P.O. Box 85110
Seattle, WA 98145-1110
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Innocence Project **
Keith Findley, Associate Clinical Professor
Frank J. Remington Center University of Wisconsin Law School
975 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706 - 1399
Wyoming
Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
Jensie Anderson, President
Katie Monroe, Executive Director
358 South 700 East, B235
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
phone: (801: 581-4661
International - United Kingdom
University of Leeds Innocence Project
Carole McCartney, Director
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
School of Law
University of Leeds
20 Lyddon Terrace
Leeds, LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
e-mail: lawcim@leeds.ac.uk
University of Bristol Innocence Project
School of Law
University of Bristolr
Wills Memorial Building
Queens Road, Bristol
BS8 1RJ
University of Westminster Innocence Project
Ms Stephanie Roberts
School of Law
4-12 Little Titchfield Street
London W1W 7UW
phone: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, Ext.2509
s.roberts02@wmin.ac.uk
INTERNATIONAL - AUSTRALIA
Griffith University Innocence Project
Lynne Weathered, Director
Griffith Law School
GU PMB 50
GCMC 9726
Australia
University of Melbourne Innocence Project
Vanessa Stafford, Director
University of Melbourne Law School
185 Pelham Street
Carlton Melbourne
Sydney Innocence Project, University of Technology
Contact: Kirsten Edwards
Faculty of Law
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Sydney, Australia
INTERNATIONAL - NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Innocence Project
New Zealand School of Psychology
PO Box 600
Victoria, University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
phone: 64-4-463-5402
fax: 64-4-463-5402
e-mail: ipnz@vuw.ac.nz
Useful Links
Canadian Commissions of Inquiry
- www.milgaardinquiry.ca (Milgaard)< br> www.gov.mb.ca/justice/publications/sophonow (Sophonow)
- www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/mikmaq/clsl9.asp (Donald Marshall Jr.)
- www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/about/pubs/morin (Guy Paul Morin)
Other Innocence Projects
Canada:
- www.innocenceproject.ca (Osgoode Hall)< br/> www.mcgill.ca/files/innocence (McGill)
United States:
- www.innocenceprojectoftexas.org (Texas)
- www.law.washington.edu (IP Northwest)
- www.innocenceproject.org (New York)
- http://www.law.pace.edu/jjls/clinic.html (Pace Law New York)
- www.cwsl.edu (California Western)
- www.idahoinnocenceproject.org (Idaho)
- www.newenglandinnocence.org (New England)
- http://www.azjusticeproject.org (Arizona)
- http://www.cooley.edu/clinics/innocence.htm (Michigan)
- http://www.uis.edu/legalstudies/innocence_project.htm (Downstate Illinois)
- http://www.floridainnocence.org/ (Florida)
- http://ga-innocenceproject.org/ (Georgia)
- http://www.pointpark.edu/default.aspx?id=902 (Pensylvania)
- http://www.prisonet.com/info2.asp?id=73 (Kentucky)-description and address only
- http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/25ind/html/61pubd.html (Maryland)-subdivision of Maryland Office of Public Defender
- http://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/innocence/ (Massachusetts)
- http://www.ipmn.org/ (Minnesota)
- http://www.ip-no.org/ (New Orleans)
- http://www.exonerate.org/ (DC)
- http://www.innocenceprojectmidwest.org/ (Missouri/Iowa/Kansas)
- http://www.law.duke.edu/innocencecenter/ (North Carolina)
- http://www.nau.edu/sbs/najp/Site/Home.html (Northern Arizona)
- http://www.ncip.scu.edu/ (Northern California)
- http://www.rmic.info/ (Utah)
- http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/clinics/innocence/ (Texas)
- http://www.law.wisc.edu/fjr/innocence/ (Wisconsin)
- http://ga-innocenceproject.org/ (Georgia)
- http://www.law.duq.edu/Contact.html (Pensylvania)
- http://www.truthinjustice.org/ipcontacts.htm
Other Post-conviction Review Organizations
Wrongful Conviction Websites
- www.injusticequebec.ca
- www.innocent.org.uk
- www.truthinjustice.org
- www.llrx.com/features/wrongfulconviction (excellent electronic library)
- www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions
- www.innocencenetwork.org
- http://www.thejusticeproject.com.au/
- http://forejustice.org/search_idb.htm (Wrongful Convictions Database)
- http://www.victimsofthestate.org/ (Summaries of Wrongful US Convictions)
- http://forejustice.org/wc/misjustice.htm (articles on miscarriage of justice in US, UK, Canada and Australia)
- http://justicedenied.org/ (Magazine for the Wrongfully Convicted)
Criminal Law Websites
- www.criminallawyers.ca
- www.canadiancriminallaw.com (Bruce MacFarlane)
- www.criminaljustice.org (NACDL)
- www.nysda.org
Related Websites
- www.deception.crimepsychblog.com
- www.piabc.ca
- www.johnhoward.bc.ca
- www.prisonjustice.ca
- www.voiceofwitness.com
- www.canadajustice.gc.ca (Canadian Department of Justice)
- www.canadajustice.gc.ca/eng/ps/ccr/report_04/3 (Background on Section 690 of the Criminal Code)
- www.npb-cnlc.gc.ca (Canadian National Parole Board)
- http://www.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/pub/hop/toc.html (Report Of The Working Group On The Prevention Of Miscarriages Of Justice)