Inform, Influence & Impact: Effective Criminal Justice Reform - Emerging Innocence Reform Efforts

This panel will focus on new techniques and strategies that have led to or have the potential to lead to effective reform in several states. Issues addressed will be eyewitness identification reform; arson investigations; recording of interrogation and the landscape of post-conviction DNA and non-DNA and discriminatory jury selection. Moderator: Cynthia Jones, Associate Law Professor, American University Washington College of Law Panelists: Michael DiLauro, Public Defender, Rhode Island and NACDL Member; Danielle Mitchell, Project Manager, American Judicatures Society (AJS); Steve Saloom, Policy Director, The Innocence Project; Nancy Steblay, Professor, Augsburg College; Nancy Steblay, Professor, Augsburg College