BC Innocence Program

Impact

Charlotte Whitmore Named a Lawyer of the Year

February 13, 2024

In Court

Innocence Program Client's Conviction Vacated

November 22, 2022

Online Exclusives

Innocence Program Brief Aids in High Court Win

Postconviction forensic testing ruling helps those trying to prove innocence.

July 9, 2021

Uncategorized

Why the Innocence Program Is So Effective

Article provides comprehensive look at how a BC Law clinic became an exoneration powerhouse.

February 8, 2021

Online Exclusives

BC Innocence Program Secures Release of Third Client in 2020

Student's discovery of previously overlooked DNA evidence is key to release of man who served 34 years.

October 19, 2020

Online Exclusives

BC Innocence Client Exonerated in Double Murder

Clinic hails the outcome of its three-year-long case to free the wrongly convicted Ronnie Qualls.

September 2, 2020

Online Exclusives

An Innocent’s Gift

The tale of exoneree Bobby Joe Leaster and the Muse family is a story of justice's rewards.

June 29, 2020

Online Exclusives

Rossman ’19 Wins Award for Innocence Work

Her efforts to free a wrongly convicted man was recognized by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

October 28, 2019

Features

The Innocence Whisperers

Adjunct Professor Charlotte Whitmore has a gift for freeing the wrongly convicted. But she doesn’t do it alone. Her talent is in knowing how to ...

By Chad Konecky
Summer 2019

Online Exclusives

Free at Last!

For five of the twenty years Omar Martinez was in prison, a BC Law team and colleagues worked to prove his innocence.

April 26, 2019