A Panel Offering Various Perspectives on the Role of Prosecutors in Revisiting Past Convictions

Co-hosted by the American Constitution Society, the New England Innocence Project, the New England Law | Boston Chapter of the American Constitution Society, the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement, and the Center for Law and Social Responsibility

Moderator:

• Alison Douglass, Esq.: partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department and a member of its Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement Practice

Keynote Speaker:

• Craig Watkins, Esq.: Criminal District Attorney for Dallas County, Texas

Panelists:

• Daniel F. Conley, Esq.: Suffolk County District Attorney

• Dennis Maher: exonerated after 19 years in prison; he was represented by NEIP attorneys and the Innocence Project in New York
• David M. Siegel, Esq.: Professor at New England law | Boston, prior senior assistant public defender for the Office of the Metropolitan Public Defender in Nashville, Tennessee