Summary: California Innocence Project Attorney Alex Simpson joins Law in 10 to discuss several of the project's upcoming cases. Simpson oversees all the cases currently in the court system and represents the project at court hearings and motions. He received his B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara and J.D. and LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from California Western School of Law. While at California Western, he received the Joe and Denise Walsh Award for Excellence in Advocacy as the top student in the California Innocence Project. The California Innocence Project, a member of the national network of Innocence Projects, is a non-profit clinical program that operates out of the Institute of Criminal Defense Advocacy at California Western. Founded in 1999, the project annually reviews more than 1,000 claims of innocence from California inmates and has earned the release of four wrongfully convicted clients.
