University of Cincinnati Law’s Ohio Innocence Project helps free wrongfully convicted man
UC NEW — The Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the UC College of Law, took up the case of the Cincinnati man convicted in 2008 of armed robbery and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Michele Berry Godsey, a 2006 UC College of Law alumnus and former OIP participant, represented Smith both at his original trial in Hamilton County…
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UC NEWS — Andrews, now 82, thought he’d die in prison. But on Wednesday, nearly 46 years after he was incarcerated, he finally walked out of prison a free man, thanks to the tireless work of law students, professors and attorneys at the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW — The weekend of May 31, 2019, started out normally for Anne-Marie Moyes, director of the Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) at Colorado Law. She caught up with volunteers, reviewed applications, and made a few calls.
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LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD — The Advance Care Planning Clinic will help workers complete documents, including general durable power of attorney for health care and/or financial decisions, health care directives/living wills, and last will and testament for low-income and low-asset estates, according to the law school’s Monday news release.
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Small Business Legal Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, which provides business transactional legal services to low-income small and emerging businesses in Oregon, has set up one-on-one meetings with attorneys for COVID-19 related issues as well as created a web page for all COVID-19 related general legal information.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s Startup Practicum continues to dig in to help its clients deal with the impact of COVID-19. The first thing the Startup Practicum did was advise its startup clients on the new loan programs created by the CARES Act.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — A federal judge ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reduce by hundreds the number of people detained in three Florida detention centers, in response to a lawsuit led by the University of Miami School of Law’s Immigration Clinic.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The Institute is hosted by Cheryl Hardy L’94, the Executive Director of the Law School’s Legal Education Programs and Online Initiatives and led by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, the Associate Dean for International Affairs.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW — Demonstrating the powerful partnership that can occur between private and public sector lawyers, a class action lawsuit has been brought against the City of Philadelphia on behalf of all medically vulnerable incarcerated people in the Philadelphia county prisons.
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW — Bach reached out to legal services organizations throughout the state to determine whether students could assist in some way related to eviction law. Her queries led Bach to Professor Katy Ramsey at the University of Memphis who also had eviction law experience.
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