Legal Aid of Wyoming, Inc.
Legal Aid of Wyoming, Inc.
Legal Aid of Wyoming is a non-profit law firm providing legal assistance to low-income individuals living in Wyoming. Legal Aid provides representation in many types of civil cases, but they cannot represent defendants in criminal cases. They provide legal assistance for issues such as family law, protection from abuse, housing, money issues, end of life […]
Office of the State Public Defender – Wyoming
The Office of the State Public Defender is a Public Defender’s office in Wyoming whose function is to represent persons accused of misdemeanors, felonies and probation violations in circuit and district courts who cannot afford to hire an attorney. The Public Defender’s mission is to provide effective assistance of counsel to indigent adults and juveniles […]
Exoneration Initiative
The Exoneration Initiative (EXI) is a pioneering not-for-profit organization that provides free legal assistance to wrongfully convicted people in New York. EXI’s mission is to Fight to Free the Forgotten: Non-DNA Innocence. The organization provides free legal services to indigent prisoners in New York State with compelling claims of innocence; conducts impact litigation to advance […]
Duke Law’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic
The Wrongful Convictions Clinic is a law clinic at the Duke University School of Law that investigates plausible claims of innocence made by North Carolina prisoners convicted of felonies. Students in the clinic, study the causes of wrongful convictions, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, and “jailhouse snitches.” Together with the Duke Law […]
North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence
The North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence oversees Innocence Projects at North Carolina law schools and provides legal services to indigent, unrepresented North Carolina incarcerated people claiming factual innocence. The Center coordinates the review and investigation of cases by law student volunteers, allowing the students to work on real cases; learn from the past work […]
Wake Forest University Law School Innocence and Justice Clinic
The Innocence and Justice (I & J) Clinic is a legal aid clinic at the Wake Forest University Law School that provides students with the unique opportunity to learn about the various causes of wrongful convictions – mistaken eyewitness identification, invalid or improper forensic science evidence, jailhouse informants, false confessions, ineffective assistance of counsel, police […]
Ohio Innocence Project
The Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) is a law clinic at the University of Cincinnati College of Law that works to help wrongfully convicted incarcerated people get out of prison and get the justice they deserve. The staff attorneys’ and students’ work includes helping to develop and advocate for lasting criminal justice reform through legislation as […]
Oklahoma Innocence Project
Oklahoma Innocence Project (OKIP) is a law clinic at the University of Oklahoma School of Law that is dedicated to identifying and remedying cases of wrongful convictions in Oklahoma. OKIP pursues only cases in which there is credible evidence of factual innocence. Those who would like to be considered for help from OKIP must fill […]
Oregon Innocence Project
The Oregon Innocence Project (OIP) is an initiative led by the Oregon Justice Resource Center, a legal aid clinic. OIP provides pro bono (free of charge) legal assistance to people who assert factual innocence and where there is the possibility of proving innocence. The project’s mission is to exonerate the wrongfully convicted, train law students, and […]
Tennessee Innocence Project
The Tennessee Innocence Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to investigating and litigating claims of actual innocence. The Project’s primary areas of focus are – Investigating and litigating wrongful conviction cases for those in Tennessee prisons to obtain exonerations, training law students and attorneys about how to litigate these cases and how to prevent future wrongful […]