Dara Gell
Investigations Attorney for the Innocence Project
Fri May 10 - Wrongful Convictions: Proving Innocence?
5:30 pm potluck dinner; 6:30 - 8:00 pm presentation
Sat May 11 - Wrongful Convictions: Proving
Innocence? Continued
8:30 am complimentary continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am, presentation and Q&A
Note: If you plan to attend the potluck supper before
the presentation, please bring your own table setting:plates, cups and
cutlery! Those who don’t choose to attend the supper are more than welcome to
come just for the program beginning at 6:30.
In
Adshead Hall (lower level of Fletcher House on the Uplands Village Campus)
86A
Church Dr, Pleasant Hill, 38578, (just off Main St. across from Pleasant Hill
Elementary School)
Dara Gell has been the Innocence Project's Investigations Attorney since October, 2017. She previously worked with the organization as student intern during law school. Before joining the Innocence Project staff she was a practicing immigration defense attorney in New York City, defending individuals and families from deportation in federal immigration court. She holds a BA from State University of New York at Geneseo, and a JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck
at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA
testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future
injustice.
