Please join us for an exciting and exclusive offer from The Pennsylvania Innocence Project!  Order Your Tickets Now!

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project (PIP) has teamed up with the Kander & Ebb musical play The Scottsboro Boys for an exclusive & exciting program.  PIP and the Pennsylvania Capital Representation Project (PCRP) will jointly present a two-hour, two-credit CLE program inspired by the content of The Scottsboro Boys and the historical events on which it is based following the performance.

When:

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
1 pm and 7 pm performances

Where:

Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Broad & Pine Streets

Details:

Following the 1 pm performance, the following presentation will take place:

The Honorable Louis Pollak will discuss the role his father, Supreme Court advocate Walter Pollak, played in the two Supreme Court cases that arose out of the Scottsboro Boys tragedy: Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama.

A panel discussion about Race and Justice with panelists Dan Carter, historian and author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South; Randall Kennedy, Harvard law professor and author of Race, Crime and the Law; and Marie Gottschalk, Penn political science professor and author of The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America.

A panel on contemporary wrongful convictions and the means of preventing them, moderated by PIP legal director Marissa Bluestine, with panelists Rob Dunham, David Rudovsky and Gordon Cooney, attorneys who have successfully sought the exonerations of wrongfully convicted clients, and Pennsylvania exoneree Vincent Moto.

Reception to follow at the theatre.

Cost:

Performance + program with CLE credit + reception: $225
Performance + program without CLE credit + reception: $125
Program + reception with CLE credit: $175
Program + reception without CLE credit: $75 

Tickets can be purchased on-line by clicking here.

**Students and Public Interest Lawyers
Performance (specify 1 pm or 7 pm): $50
Program with CLE Credit: $ 75
Program without CLE credit: $ 25
Reception with panelists: $25

Students and Public Interest lawyers, please register by going through PayPal using the button above on this website noting your events and 1 or 7 pm performance in the comment section.

The attached White Paper issued by the Pennsylvania Innocence Project addresses the proposals from the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Wrongful Convictions report and the objections raised by 14 dissenters from the 52-member body. 

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project, which was not part of the Advisory Committee process, supports most of the Advisory Committee’s recommendations. However, in some areas, further reforms are necessary to ensure fair proceedings and to protect against wrongful convictions. Toward that end, the Project suggests additional proposals, as outlined in the White Paper. 

The recommendations in the Advisory Committee's report have now been introduced as legislation in the Senate Judiciary Committee, backed by Chairman Stewart Greenleaf.  We will provide information through this web site and our blog as the legislation progresses through the Pennsylvania Assembly.  Please feel free to forward this White Paper to others interested in supporting the Pennsylvania Innocence Project's efforts to prevent wrongful convictions.