University of Miami School of Law Innocence Clinic
The Innocence Clinic is a law clinic at the University of Miami School of Law that is dedicated to identifying and correcting wrongful convictions. They are committed to exonerating innocent individuals and combating injustice. The clinic handles cases involving innocent individuals incarcerated for a minimum of ten years who have new evidence ranging from recanting witnesses to new witnesses discovered by students to prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel. The clinic also accepts cases involving DNA evidence. The majority of the cases handled by the clinic involve serious offenses such as rape and murder and the majority of our clients are serving life sentences. In this hands-on project, law students have the opportunity for live client representation and the responsibility of investigating innocence claims and litigating post-conviction motions when appropriate, reexamining cases in their entirety and providing post-conviction representation to defendants with compelling claims to innocence, contributing to the project through fact investigation, interviewing defendants and witnesses, and legal research and analysis.