Members of innocence organizations and lawyers who represent wrongfully convicted persons in the US and East Asia gathered online on December 9, 2021 to share their challenges and achievements over the past year. It was the second year in a row that the U.S.-Asia Law Institute hosted an online wrongful convictions roundtable.
Event recap: Trends in the Innocence Movement in Asia and the U.S.
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.
Shangquan Law Office Celebrates Fifth Anniversary of Wrongful Conviction Legal Aid Project
The Wrongful Conviction Legal Aid Project was jointly founded by Shangquan Law Office and China University of Political Science and Law in 2015. Inspired by The Innocence Project in the US, the Legal Aid Project engages prestigious scholars, practitioners, the media, experienced criminal defense lawyers, and volunteer students in providing free legal assistance to actual innocent applicants who are wrongfully convicted of serious violent crimes. Over the past five years, the project has received more than 400 applications and taken on 15 cases. To date, 15 defendants in six cases have been exonerated.
The video below explains the goal of the project and highlights of its work.
