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.…
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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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…
We are currently in the process of updating the Post-Conviction Justice Project’s website. Within the week, the Post-Conviction Justice Project will be accessible from the University of Southern California Law School’s official website at justice.usc.edu, as well as at uscpcjp.com and uscpcjp.org.
(more…)The Post-Conviction Justice Project's blog will feature posts from the clinic's current and former students, as well as its faculty supervisors. Our goal is to provide the University of Southern California Community, as well as prospective clients and current clients, a window into the work that the clinic performs every…
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…