On December 8 2020, US-Asia Law Institute held an online webinar featuring the recent developments in the “innocence” work in both East Asia and the United States. This event invited experts from China, Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. to share with the audience the significant trends in exonerating the innocent, with special focuses on the exclusion of junk science and the positive and negative roles played by prosecutors.
This event was co-sponsored by The Innocence Project, The Innocence Network, UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society, Taiwan Innocence Project, Innocence Project Japan and xiyuanwant.net and attended by more than 100 participants from East & Southeast Asia, North America, and Africa.
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Agenda
Introduction: Katherine Wilhelm (Executive Director, USALI)
Opening Remarks: Peter Neufeld (Co-Founder & Special Counsel, The Innocence Project)
On Recent Development of the Innocence Network
Meredith Kennedy (Director of Innocence Network Support Unit, The Innocence Project; Director, Innocence Network)
Panel 1: Eliminating the Use of Junk Science
Moderator: Ira Belkin (Senior Research Scholar, USALI)
Panelists:
Chris Fabricant (Director of the Strategic Litigation, The Innocence Project)
Yu Tianmiao (Defense Attorney, Shangquan Law Office)
Kana Sasakura (Deputy Director, Innocence Project Japan; Co-Director, SBS Review Project Japan)
Simon Cole (Director and Associate Editor, The National Registry of Exonerations)
Panel 2: The Role of Prosecutors in Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations
Moderator: : Ira Belkin (Senior Research Scholar, USALI)
Panelists:
Sharon Beckman (Director, Boston College Innocence Program)
Huang Jiade (Pro bono lawyer, “Save the Innocence” Exoneration Initiative)
Ko Yun-ching (Communicative Director, Taiwan Innocence Project)
Samuel Gross (Senior Editor and Co-Founder, The National Registry of Exonerations)
Q&A
Closing Remarks: Jerry Cohen (Faculty Director Emeritus, USALI)
In partnership with:
The Innocence Project
The Innocence Network
UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society
台灣冤獄平反協會 (Taiwan Innocence Project)
えん罪救済センター (Innocence Project Japan)
洗冤网 (xiyuanwang.net)