Staff
Simon Cole, Director
Maurice Possley, Senior Researcher
Kenneth Otterbourg, Researcher
Jessica Weinstock Paredes, Denise Foderaro Research Scholar
UCI Faculty Affiliates
Jon Gould, Social Ecology
Erika Hayasaki, English
Elizabeth Loftus, Psychological Science
Mona Lynch, Criminology, Law & Society
Laurence Mueller, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Barry Siegel, English
William Thompson, School of Law
Henry Weinstein, School of Law
The Newkirk Center is the primary home of the National Registry of Exonerations, a collaborative project with the University of Michigan School of Law and Michigan State University School of Law. The mission of the National Registry of Exonerations is to provide comprehensive information on exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in order to prevent future false convictions by learning from past errors. The Registry collects, analyzes and disseminates information about all known exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in the United States. The National Registry of Exonerations lists more than 2,500 exonerations of innocent defendants who spent more than 22,000 years in prison, including 160 exonerees who served at least 25 years each.
VISIT THE REGISTRY’S WEBSITE AND DATABASE
READ THE REGISTRY’S REPORTS:
Race and Wrongful Convictions 2017
Exonerations in 2018
Official Misconduct in Exonerations 2020
2020 Annual Report
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