Participants will engage in screening applications from prisoners claiming innocence, who have requested help from the New England Innocence Project. Clinic students are obliged to spend five hours a week on Clinic work, under supervision. Students will receive one ungraded credit for this work. Two applicants will be chosen from the enrollees by lottery in the first week of the semester; subsequent openings, if any, will be filled from the wait-list. Participants will be expected to attend an orientation program, conducted at the offices of Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, in late September. Although it is possible that a student’s Clinic case work will be completed in the Fall semester, it is more likely to continue into and through the 2011 Spring semester. In that case, award of the credit hour will be deferred until satisfactory completion of work in the Spring. Hours spent on Clinic work in the Spring semester may be counted toward satisfaction of the School’s Pro Bono Pledge. NOTE: The Clinic satisfies the upper-class professional skills requirement.

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