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LAW 8713P
Innocence Project
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Students, under supervision, provide investigate and legal assistance to prisoners with persuasive actual innocence claims. Students meet weekly with the director of the program for training and evaluation. Assigned tasks depend on the needs of the Innocence Project, and may include interviewing potential clients, gathering records, investigating actual innocence claims, consulting with experts, drafting post-conviction and/or clemency pleadings, and appearing at court hearings. Clinical students work in conjunction with law and journalism students enrolled at the University of Missouri-Columbia and are required to work 240 hours a semester or roughly eighteen (18) hours a week on their clinic cases. Limited enrollment (normally, 8 students). Prerequisites: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure I and Wrongful Convictions. Pass/Fail.
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Faculty:
School of Law
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Department:
Law General
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