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The California Innocence Project was founded in 1999 at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California by Director Justin Brooks and Law Professor Jan Stiglitz. CIP was the fourth innocence project to form in the United States as part of the national innocence movement or Innocence Network.
Aug 8, 2019 · Justin Brooks (LL.M.'92) traces the success in his academic career to Georgetown Law. Now a professor at the California Western School of Law and a co-founder of the California Innocence Project, he once supervised Georgetown Law students teaching classes in Lorton Prison — teaching inmates about their legal rights and helping them with legal ...
Dec 31, 2021 · Justin Brooks has helped free 35 people from death penalties and life sentences - and has even been played in a film by Greg Kinnear.
Justin Brooks (born 1965) is an American criminal defense attorney, known internationally for his work in exonerating wrongfully-convicted people and training judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys.
May 2, 2024 · Justin Brooks, the founding director of the California Innocence Project from 1999-2023, started the fall semester as a new professor of practice at the University of San Diego (USD)'s School of Law and will concentrate his work on improving the justice system in Latin America through advanced legal education and hands-on advocacy training.
Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With “You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent,” he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions.
Justin Brooks is a Professor of Practice at University of San Diego School of Law and Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project where he served as Director for 24 years. Under his leadership the project freed 40 innocent people from prison.
