The center may also sponsor public education programs, and its Web site and a publication will expand the number of people exposed to the center’s work. The
Wrongful Convictions Clinic and Innocence Project is in collaboration with the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, a nonprofit founded in 2000 to help combine efforts of the Innocence Project and a similar project at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Similar projects have been established at law schools in the state, including Campbell University, the Charlotte School of Law, Elon University, North Carolina Central University and Wake Forest University. Those partnerships will continue, Coleman says.
The plan is for the funding from the university to help with the center’s establishment. Coleman says organizers hope that, through fund-raising efforts, the center will help diminish issues within the criminal justice system for years to come.
“Our hope is to raise enough money to endow the center,” he says.
“What the university is saying is that it is in the best interests of the university ... to examine how the justice system works,” Coleman adds, “and where it’s flawed, to offer ideas (to fix those flaws).”
--Marlon A. Walker
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