The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology is proud to partner with the Center on Wrongful Convictions and announce the upcoming Conviction Integrity Conference, a groundbreaking event that will bring together members of the law enforcement and criminal justice reform communities to discuss the critical issue of conviction integrity review. The Conference will consist of three panels featuring prominent representatives of the prosecutorial, judicial, and innocence movement communities.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

12:30 – 12:50 p.m.

12:50 – 1:50 p.m.

Alan Beaman | Exoneree | Rockford, IL

Honorable Paul P. Biebel Jr. | Presiding Judge | Criminal Division, Circuit Court of Cook County

Thomas Breen | Former Assistant Cook County State's Attorney

Keith Findley | Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Law | Co-Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project

1:50 – 2:00 p.m.

2:00 – 3:30 PM

Anita Alvarez | State's Attorney | Cook County, IL

Michael Nerheim | State's Attorney | Lake County, IL

Kenneth Thompson | District Attorney | Kings County (Brooklyn), NY

David Angel | District Attorney and head of the District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit | Santa Clara County

Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. | Special Counsel to the District Attorney, Kings County (Brooklyn), NY, Conviction Review Unit | Professor, Harvard Law School

Jose Torres | Assistant Prosecutor and head of Prosecutor's Conviction Integrity Unit | Cuyahoga County

Russell Wilson II | Special Fields Bureau Chief and head of the District | Dallas County

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.