Credits: 4

Students review prisoner requests and obtain and summarize scientific evidence. The major portion of time is spent analyzing and summarizing trial transcripts and recommending project action on assigned cases. Students may also draft motions that seek the testing of evidence and, if appropriate, the release of wrongly incarcerated inmates in Florida. Students work closely with project attorneys to create and implement a strategy for one or two primary assigned cases.

Students should be interested in innocence exonerations and committed to the purposes of the project. Students will submit a weekly summary journal of their work to the supervising faculty member, and provide monthly reports and evaluations of their experience. There may also be a short, experiential paper toward the end of the semester.