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 and prosecutorial misconduct – while giving them the opportunity to apply this knowledge to the investigation of cases where newly discovered evidence can prove a client’s innocence. The I&J Clinic serves two primary missions - first, to provide Wake Forest students with a hands-on clinical legal education opportunity and second, to identify, investigate and advance credible wrongful conviction claims by prisoners convicted of felonies in North Carolina. The clinic provides students with an opportunity to examine the legal, scientific, cultural, and psychological causes of wrongful convictions. Students will be given an opportunity to apply this knowledge to actual cases by reviewing and investigating claims of actual innocence by incarcerated people and, where appropriate, pursuing legal avenues for exoneration and release from prison.