Companion Chelsea Crawford attended the annual Innocence Community Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, her third such convention, as an advocate for exonerees and the prevention of wrongful convictions.
“The Innocence Community Convention is amongst my favourite annual conferences. It really facilities the experiences of exonerees and their households and brings collectively the brightest minds to share concepts and techniques within the ongoing battle in opposition to wrongful convictions,” Chelsea stated.
Happening from March 22 to March 23, 2024, this yr’s convention boasted 1,080 attendees, together with 280 freed/exonerated attendees, and a complete of 55 breakout periods.
The theme of this yr’s convention was “Energy in Neighborhood.” Content material and programming explored themes of interdependence and examined the ways in which injustice is skilled, fought, and repaired in a group.
Among the convention’s breakout periods included “Getting Your Report Straight: Coping with Collateral Penalties of Wrongful Conviction,” “Right this moment’s Know-how, Tomorrow’s Exonerations: How New Know-how Can Entrench and Amplify Racial Bias in Policing,” and “Off the Benches and Into the Trenches: Getting Into Court docket, Even when Creatively, To Transfer Circumstances Ahead.”
The Innocence Community Convention brings collectively straight impacted individuals, advocates, and others who work to free the harmless, stop wrongful conviction, and supply post-release assist. This annual convention promotes studying and progress by way of academic programming, relationship-building, collective motion, and therapeutic.
Chelsea had the chance to satisfy exonerated people and attend displays about assist for launched people and exonerees, find out how to stop wrongful conviction, and find out how to navigate injustice in communities.
ABOUT CHELSEA CRAWFORD
A journalist-turned-litigator, Chelsea Jones Crawford has in depth expertise representing people and entities in complicated civil issues, together with federal civil rights litigation, industrial disputes, and severe private harm and wrongful dying instances. At Brown, Goldstein & Levy, Chelsea has obtained a number of the largest settlements within the State of Maryland. In 2021, she obtained a $6.5 million settlement on behalf of the household of Eric Sopp, an unarmed man in misery who was shot and killed by a Baltimore County police officer. In 2020, she helped acquire an almost $8 million settlement for 2 males who have been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned, and in 2018, she was a part of a group that obtained a $9 million settlement on behalf of an harmless man who spent 21 years wrongfully incarcerated. Be taught extra about Chelsea right here.
Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a legislation agency based mostly in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, D.C. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of observe areas, together with complicated civil and industrial litigation, civil rights, well being care, household legislation, and legal protection. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered legislation agency that brings a long time of expertise and passionate, efficient advocacy to your battle for justice.
