Innocence Project

Catalog description

Students take a seminar focusing on forensic DNA techniques (RFLP and PCR-based tests) that can be used to exonerate prisoners wrongfully convicted. The seminar component covers statutory and constitutional problems in obtaining state and federal post-conviction relief as well as the law surrounding the use of various forensic testing procedures from hair comparisons and conventional serology to DNA testing itself. The clinical component requires students to handle Innocence Project cases under faculty supervision. Prerequisite(s): LAW 7118 may be taken as a prerequisite or corequisite. In house clinic.