Special Conference Invitation

Since 1990, over 200 people have been wrongfully convicted of murder, rape and other serious felonies in California. Each of these men and women were sentenced to long prison terms, and even death, for crimes that they did not commit, many serving decades behind bars before they were found to be innocent and released. Please join us for a very important conference exploring wrongful convictions and the death penalty in California.

The Faces of Wrongful Conviction
A Conference Examining Wrongful Convictions and the Administration of the Death Penalty in California.

This conference will facilitate the largest gathering of California's exonerees ever.

April 7-9, 2006
Hosted by UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles, CA

Schedule of events:

Friday April 7: Special VIP Event
Sat. & Sun. April 8 & 9: Conference Workshops and Seminars
Sat. April 8: Stage Production of the Award-Winning Play "The Exonerated"
Sun. April 9: Special Event- TBA

Speakers include:

Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, Co-Directors of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and co-authors of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted
Michael Radelet, death penalty scholar and Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado
Stephen Bright, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
Lawrence Marshall, founder of the Center on Wrongful Conviction at Northwestern Law School and Professor of Law, Stanford University
Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Lis Semel, Director, Boalt School of Law Death Penalty Clinic
Richard Leo, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
Richard Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center
Linda Starr, Legal Director, Northern California Innocence Project
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
Jeff Chinn, Assitant Director, California Innocence Project
Craig Haney, Author of Death by Design, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Sam Gross, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Stuart Banner, Author of The Death Penalty: An American History and Professor of Law, UCLA
Dr. Lola Vollen, founder, Life After Exoneration Project and author of Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Michael Schill, Dean, UCLA School of Law
Rafael Perez-Torres, Professor of Chicano Studies/English, UCLA, author of Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw: To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
Ellen Kreitzberg, Director of the Death Penalty College, Santa Clara University School of Law
Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
California Exonerees, and many more

Conference Registration Pricing:

$250 Registration with MCLE Credit for Attorneys
(Includes: Conference materials, MCLE materials, Saturday Lunch, Friday Night VIP Reception and Special Screening of a New Film)

$125 Regular Registration
(Includes: Conference materials, Saturday Lunch, Friday Night VIP Reception and Special Screening of a New Film)

$25 Student/Senior/Low Income Registration
(Includes: Conference materials, Saturday Lunch)

$35 Ticket to a theatrical production of "The Exonerated" on Saturday,
April 8, 2006 at 8:00pm at Northwest Campus Auditorium. Cast TBA.

For program information or to register for the event, please visit us
on-line at http://www.stopwrongfulconvictions.org

For further information or to register by phone, contact:

Susie Shannon Consulting
(323) 939-5475
susieshannon [at] comcast.net





Stefanie L. Faucher
Program Director

Death Penalty Focus
870 Market St. Ste. 859
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. 415-243-0143
Fax 415-243-0994
mailto:stefanie [at] deathpenalty.org
http://www.deathpenalty.org
http://www.californiamoratorium.org