March 9 CALIFORNIA: THE FACES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTION: A COnference Examining Wrongful Convictions and the Adminstration of the Death Penalty in California April 7-9, 2006 Hosted by UCLA School of Law The purpose of this conference is to illustrate both the problem of wrongful conviction and the unfair application of the death penalty in California and to mobilize for change. Since 1990, over 200 people have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated in California. This conference will facilitate the largest gathering of California's exonerees ever. In addition, new research discussing the causes and prevalence of wrongful conviction in California and demonstrating systemic racial and geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty in this state will be presented. This conference will offer a series of workshops on the causes of wrongful conviction (i.e., snitch witnesses, mistaken eyewitnesses, junk science, etc.), problems with the death penalty, and opportunities for action. Workshop topics will appeal to: (1) exonerees; (2) lawyers and law students; and (3) activists. Panel speakers will include: prosecutors, jurors, judges, the family members of murder victims, and the family members of people on death row. This conference will also incorporate film, art, drama, and a new book on California exonerees. The Exonerated DVD Cost: $24.95 Confirmed speakers include: Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, Co-Directors of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and co-authors of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted; Michael Radelet (University of Colorado), respected death penalty scholar; and Stephen Bright, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights Lawrence C. Marshall (Stanford University), founder of the Center on Wrongful Conviction at Northwestern Law School. Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law, Stanford University Susan Rutberg, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University Elisabeth Semel, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Death Penalty Clinic, Boalt Hall School of Law Richard Leo, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine Richard Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center Linda Starr, Legal Director, Northern California Innocence Project Stephen Rohde, Partner, Rohde & Victoroff Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama Jeff Chinn, Associate Director, California Innocence Project Craig Haney, Author of Death by Design, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz Sam Gross, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Stuart Banner, Author of The Death Penalty: An American History and Professor of Law, UCLA Dr. Lola Vollen, founder, Life After Exoneration Project and author of Surviving Justice: Americas Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated Michael Schill, Dean, UCLA School of Law Rafael Perez-Torres, Professor of Chicano Studies/English, UCLA, author of Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw: To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back Ellen Kreitzberg, Director of the Death Penalty College, Santa Clara University School of Law Daniel Medwed, Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Gary Wells, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University Denny LeBeuf, Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana Lynne Coffin, President, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice Ashley Ratliff, Author of "Addressing the Needs of the Exonerated" John Eldan, Legal Director, Life after Exoneration Program (invited) Glenn Pierce, College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University (invited) Eric DeBode, California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty Thomas Sullivan, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Co-chair of the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment Laurie Levenson, Former Prosecutor, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Alexandra Natapoff, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, Penn State Rachel Dioso, Brenda Velasquez, Tiamoyo Peterson and William C. Thompson, Authors of "Misuse of DNA Evidence: A Case Study (Robin Lovitt)" Nancy Pemberton, Capital Case Investigator Simon Cole, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine Rory Little, Professor of Law, University of California's Hastings College of Law and Former Prosecutor Donald Heller, Former Prosecutor (invited) Chuck Patterson, Partner, Morrison and Foerster Lance Lindsey, Executive Director, Death Penalty Focus Tim Foley, Deputy Federal Defender Richard Berk, Professor of Statistics, UCLA and author of "New Claims About Executions and General Deterrence: Dj vu All Over Again?" Cynthia Jones, Assistant Professor of Law at WCL, American University Fred Tulsky, San Jose Mercury News reporter Francisco Lobaco, Lobbyist for the ACLU of Northern California Virginia Sloan, President, The Constitution Project Linda Carter, McGeorge School of Law (invited) Lynne Weathered, Executive Director, Australian Innocence Network Nina Morrison, Staff Attorney, Innocence Project John Holdridge, Director, ACLU Capital Punishment Project Robert Schehr, Northern Arizona University Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, Former President of the Los Angeles Police Commission (invited) Heather Weigand, Life After Exoneration Program (LAEP) Assemblymember Paul Koretz - Invited Robert Sanger - Invited Elaine Enns - Invited Bill Kurtis Invited Ken Starr Invited http://www.stopwrongfulconvictions.org/
