Summary: California Innocence Project Assistant Director and Case Manager Jeff Chinn talks about student involvement in the project and 2L Solomon Chang talks about his experiences with the California Innocence Project. Chinn is responsible for reviewing each inmate's claim of innocence and deciding whether the project should investigate the case further. He also guides law students as they reinvestigate cases for evidence of actual innocence. Chang is a second-year student who is part of the Innocence Project Clinic at California Western. Solomon received his bachelor's in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to San Diego to attend California Western in 2005. He is also one of the law school's student bloggers. The California Innocence Project, a member of the national network of Innocence Projects, is a non-profit clinical program that operates out of the Institute of Criminal Defense Advocacy at California Western. Founded in 1999, the project annually reviews more than 1,000 claims of innocence from California inmates and has earned the release of four wrongfully convicted clients.
