Professors Justin P. Brooks and Jan Stiglitz of the California Innocence Project, housed at California Western School of Law, join the ranks of California’s best attorneys as recipients of California Lawyer Magazine’s 14th annual Attorney of the Year Award.
Brooks and Stiglitz’s CLAY honor was likely solidified by the California Innocence Project’s exoneration of three wrongfully [...]

The California Innocence Project, based at California Western School of Law, and the Northern California Innocence Project, housed at Santa Clara University School of Law, received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for post-conviction DNA testing used to investigate inmates’ claims of innocence.
In a joint effort, the Innocence Projects will administer [...]

Rafael Madrigal, Jr. will be released from the California Institution for Men today. Madrigal’s release follows the reversal of an attempted murder conviction for a July 2000 gang-related shooting in which Madrigal was never involved.
Last Thursday, Magistrate Judge Marc Goldman granted a motion for bail, filed on behalf of Madrigal by the California Innocence [...]

California Innocence Project client William Richards remains in the custody of the San Bernardino Sheriff-Coroner Department, despite his exoneration in the murder of his wife, Pamela, more than two months ago and his release from the California Department of Corrections.
Last week, Superior Court Judge Larry W. Allen refused to release Richards pending the district attorney’s [...]

California Western School of Law Professor Justin Brooks is named one of California’s Top 100 Attorneys in today’s Los Angeles Daily Journal. This honor marks the third consecutive year in which Brooks has received this recognition from the Daily Journal. 
Brooks is one of four San Diego attorneys to be honored with this award and one [...]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the California Innocence Project, located at California Western School of Law. In that time, thousands of inmates claiming innocence and their families have contacted the project seeking assistance. Innocence Project staff and students spend many more thousands of hours investigating those claims, taking on cases where innocence is [...]

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the California Innocence Project at California Western School of Law. 
The California Innocence Project is a law school clinical program dedicated to the release of wrongfully convicted inmates and providing an outstanding educational experience for students enrolled in the clinic.  Each year, the California Innocence Project [...]

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess granted a petition filed by the California Innocence Project and Attorney Eric Multhaup, effectively reversing the 2002 murder conviction of Rafael Madrigal. The decision follows the recommendation of U.S. Magistrate Judge Marc Goldman. Madrigal is the third person in three months to be exonerated by the California Innocence Project, [...]

Today, 16 years to the day after the murder of Pamela Richards, San Bernardino County Judge Brian McCarville granted the California Innocence Project’s request to reverse the murder conviction of her husband William Richards.  Finding that new evidence points “unerringly to innocence,” Richards’s 1997 conviction of murdering his wife in their Hesperia, Calif., home was [...]

Last week in a Los Angeles Superior Court room, the California Innocence Project, based here at California Western, helped another innocent man take a step in his journey toward freedom. 
Attorneys for the Innocence Project argued, and the judge agreed, that the first degree murder charge and life sentence in the 1994 shooting death of Felipe [...]