Young Kids, Hard Times to Premiere on MSNBC November 20
“Young Kids, Hard Times,” an extraordinary documentary on youth prosecuted as adults, will premiere on MSNBC Sunday, November 20th at 7 p.m. PST.
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November 18, 2011
USC Law’s PCJP Celebrates 30 Years
The USC Law alumni attending the recent 30th anniversary of the Post-Conviction Justice Project hail from nearly ever corner of the legal world – they are judges, public defenders, state and federal prosecutors, public interest lawyers and partners at law firms.
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November 11, 2011
California Habeas Project to Receive Advocacy Award from Peace Over Violence on October 28
On October 28, the California Habeas Project received a humanitarian award for advocacy from Peace Over Violence, a sexual and domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, and youth violence prevention center headquartered in Los Angeles. Norma Cumpian, a former PCJP client and domestic abuse survivor, presented the award.
October 30, 2011
Crime After Crime Screening, October 26
USC Law’s Post Conviction Justice Project, Entertainment Law Society, Life Sentence Films and Outside the Box [Office] are holding a special screening of Crime After Crime, an official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, on October 26 at 7:00 p.m.
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September 27, 2011
Sin By Silence to Air on the Discovery Channel October 17
Sin By Silence is a gateway into the lives of women who are domestic violence’s worst-case scenarios: women who have killed their abusers.
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September 24, 2011
MCLE Seminar on Lifer Parole Representation October 15
The Post-Conviction Justice Project and UnCommon Law hosted an MCLE event on October 15, 2011, in Los Angeles for attorneys and law students on representation of California life inmates appearing before the Board of Parole Hearings.
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September 24, 2011
Zach Crowley ’12 and Max Castro ’12 Claim Wins Before California Court of Appeals
USC Gould School of Law students in the Post-Conviction Justice Project recently won two victories following oral arguments before the California Courts of Appeal, Second District.
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September 22, 2011
USC Law Establishes Audrey Irmas Clinical Teaching Fellowship
The USC Gould School of Law has named Elizabeth Henneke the inaugural Audrey Irmas Clinical Teaching Fellow, a two-year position teaching and supervising cases and projects supporting the legal rights of women and children. The fellowship is funded primarily by Audrey Irmas, a longtime supporter of USC and USC Law.…
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August 30, 2011
Hitting the Ground Running: Stephanie Chen ’13 Discusses her First Parole Hearing
The Post-Conviction Justice Project gives USC Law students the invaluable opportunity to personally handle every aspect of a client’s parole process. Upon starting work at PCJP in May of this year, I immediately began preparing a client for her fifth parole hearing. Within less than two months, I was representing her before a Board of Parole Hearings commissioner, deputy commissioner, and a representative from the district attorney’s office.
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July 27, 2011
Free: Sandra Davis-Lawrence
In a defining case for the California parole system, the Post-Conviction Justice Project successfully argued before the California Supreme Court that longtime inmate Sandra Davis-Lawrence’s due process rights had been violated by the Governor’s reversal of her grant of parole.
July 21, 2011