Half Free: A conversation with Innocence Project client Noura Jackson

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  • Seminar
  • Death Penalty

She was wrongly convicted as a teenager for murdering her mother, saw her conviction overturned a decade later because of gross prosecutorial misconduct, and was pressured into accepting a plea to gain her freedom. Noura Jackson, an Innocence Project client whose journey is featured in Charged, the new book by award-winning author Emily Bazelon, talks with Professor Terry Maroney about her experience of wrongful conviction, her new life, and her quest to clear her name and find her mother’s killer.

This event is free an open to the public and will be held in Flynn Auditorium of Vanderbilt Law School. Sponsored by the Criminal Justice Program. Lunch will be served.

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    Vanderbilt University Law School