Wrongful Convictions

a pair of handcuffs and jail or prison cell bars

WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS/HNRC 4013H-003
T 2:00-4:50 p.m., FALL 2022
GEAR 129

 

View Dean Murphy's February 28 Public Preview Lecture (1 hour).

Hear Dean Murphy on Wrongful Convictions course on NPR (15 min.).

Interested? Current students can apply online. Application deadline: Midnight, Thursday, March 31.
Questions?  Contact  John Treat . 

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Wrongful Convictions will encompass a study of the substantive causes of wrongful convictions and the procedural mechanisms allowing for the litigation of actual innocence claims.  The focus of this class is the methodology used to investigate and develop claims of actual innocence. During the course of the semester, students will review actual cases of wrongful convictions and processes necessary for exoneration.

Course Credit:

  • All-students: 3 hours of honors credit
  • Fulbright College:
    • Fulbright Honors humanities colloquium
    • Fulbright Honors social science colloquium
    • Sociology/Criminology upper-level credit
    • Legal Studies Minor credit
    • Political Science upper-level credit
  • Walton College: honors colloquium credit

About Tiffany Murphy:

Tiffany Murphy

Professor Tiffany Murphy is the Director of the Criminal Practice Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law where law students represent clients charged with misdemeanors and felonies in Northwest Arkansas.  She continues to represent clients who have been wrongfully convicted.   Professor Murphy most recently taught at Oklahoma City University School of Law as a clinical professor and the director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project. She also was a clinical professor and legal director of the Midwestern Innocence Project at the University of Missouri--Kansas City. Prior to that, she practiced at the Federal Defender’s Office Capital Habeas Units in Philadelphia and Las Vegas. Murphy’s research interests focus on the problems in protecting federal constitutional rights and actual innocence while pursuing post-conviction remedies.  She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.