California’s parole-eligible prisoners may soon get a definitive answer on whether the three, five, seven, ten, or fifteen year parole hearing set-off scheme enacted in 2008 pursuant to Marsy’s Law (Cal. Pen. Code § 3041.5) violates ex post facto principles.
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Post-Conviction Justice Project students Mark Fahey and Celina Kirchner took time away from their cases this week to visit Sacramento, where they lobbied legislators in support of juvenile justice bill SB-9.
(more…)By Gilien Silsby 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. Zach Crowley, a second-year law student, appeared before the court in May on behalf of his client Tresia Henry, who was…
A victim of human trafficking and extreme abuse by her captor, Marisol Garcia was finally released and reunited with her family in Mexico.
Since the early 1990’s, PCJP has provided pro bono representation to women serving life-terms, many of whom survived intimate partner violence. Hear from faculty, students, alumni and former clients Sandra Davis-Lawrence and Connie Keel. https://youtu.be/dUMo1wJelj4
A woman who was represented by a USC Law student after spending 29 years in prison for sitting in a car while her husband robbed and killed a shop owner shared her story with a crowd of 165 students and parents at USC’s Trojan Parents Weekend. The woman — Connie Keel — gave a…