On Wednesday, March 1, please join WCL’s National Lawyers Guild Chapter as they host Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty activist and author of the book “Dead Man Walking.” Sister Prejean’s book was turned into a film by the same name starring Susan Sarandon. She will also be joined by Death Row Exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth, who spent nine years in jail for a crime he did not commit and was the first American to be exonerated from Death Row by post-conviction DNA evidence. March 1 – 12:00 p.m. American University Washington College of Law – Room 603 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW…

This morning, the Richmond-Times Dispatch broke the news that the Old Case Testing Project has proven the innocence of another man in Virginia.  Without MAIP’s work to ensure that individuals whose DNA is being tested as part of this project were notified, Mr. Barbour would not have known about the DNA results that exonerated him.  While we wish that Virginia in 2007 had embraced MAIP’s plan for even more openness and transparency, so Mr. Barbour could have proven his innocence when prosecutors knew about these results in 2010, we are happy that our friends at the UVA Innocence Project now…