This event was recorded on December 8, 2020.
The U.S.-Asia Law Institute and innocence organizations discussed recent developments in "innocence" work in Asia and the United States. Experts from China, Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. discussed significant trends in exonerating the innocent with special panels focusing on the exclusion of junk science from evidence and the positive and negative roles played by prosecutors, that is, supporting exonerations and sometimes contributing to wrongful convictions.
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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)
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