MONDAY 16 OCTOBER 2017 – 9.15 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE – AULA MAGNA DEL RETTORATO
via Ostiense 159, Roma
8.45 – 9.15: Registration procedures
WELCOMING REMARKS
GIOVANNI SERGES – Dean of the Law Department of the University of Rome III
LUCA LUPÁRIA – Director of the Italy Innocence Project, Full Professor of CriminalProcedure at the University of Rome III, Chairman of the Conference
I SESSION – NEW AND ANCIENT ISSUES RELATED TO WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
Chairman of the I and II Sessions: ROCCO BLAIOTTA – President of the IV Criminal Section of the Italian Supreme Court
WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: THE ORIGINS AND THE SPREAD OF THE INNOCENCE PROJECT
10.00: BARRY SCHECK – Founder and co-director of the Innocence Project – Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of New York
THE GLOBALITY OF THE PHENOMENON: MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE ACROSS AMERICAS AND EUROPE
10.30: JUSTIN BROOKS – Director of the California Innocence Project and of RED Inocente – Professor at the California Western School of Law of San Diego
II SESSION – CAUSES, IMPLICATIONS AND REMEDIES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
THE MAIN CAUSES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS – AN OVERVIEW
11.00: BRANDON GARRETT – Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law – Author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong”
SOCIOLOGICAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AND WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS: “TUNNEL VISION”, POLITICS, MEDIA
11.30: KEITH FINDLEY – Co-founder, past director and currently Senior Advisor of the Wisconsin Innocence Project – Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School
“THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU”. EXONEREES’ EXPERIENCES
12.00: DEAN GILLISPIE (convicted in 1991, freed in 2011), SUNNY JACOBS (convicted in 1976, freed in 1992), PETER PRINGLE (convicted in 1980, freed in 1995)
13.00 – 14.30: LUNCH BREAK
III SESSION – SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
Chairman of the III and IV Sessions: LUCA MARAFIOTI – Full Professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Rome III
>FALSE MYTHS, RISK FACTORS AND REAL POTENTIALITY OF THE “SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE”
14.30: SETH MILLER – Director of the Innocence Project of Florida – President of the Innocence Network
IMPROVING DNA EVIDENCE IN COURTS: BETTERING THE QUESTIONS, NOT ONLY THE ANSWERS
15.00: FRANCO TARONI – Professor of forensic statistic at the School of Criminal Justice of the University of Lausanne
IV SESSION – NEW PERSPECTIVES
CASE STUDY: EXONERATIONS RATE IN UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED STATES
15.30: RICHARD OWEN – Professor at the Swansea University (UK)- Director of the Swansea Law Clinic
LITIGATING WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN SUPRANATIONAL COURTS: THE ECHR AND THE ICC 15.50
GEERT-JAN ALEXANDER KNOOPS– Professor at the University of Amsterdam and at the University of Shandong – Attorney at Law, admitted to the ICC – Member of the Knoops’ Innocence Project
V SESSION – FOCUS: THE ITALIAN STATUS ARTIS
Chairman of the Session: LUCA LUPÁRIA – Full Professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Rome III
THE ITALIAN REVISION PROCEDURE: NEW FRONTIERS
16.10: MITJA GIALUZ – Professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Trieste
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND DNA FINGERPRINT: RECENT CHALLENGES IN ITALIAN COURTS
16.30: GIUSEPPE GENNARI – Judge – Author of the book “Nuove e vecchie scienze forensi alla prova delle Corti. Un confronto internazionale e una proposta per il futuro” – Member of the Italy Innocence Project
THE ITALY INNOCENCE PROJECT AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES
16.50: MARTINA CAGOSSI –Attorney at Law at the Italy Innocence Project – University of Rome III
A PECULIAR ITALIAN PROBLEM: WRONGFUL PRECAUTIONARY DETENTION
17.10: FEDERICA CENTORAME –Junior Researcher at the University of Rome III
ROAD TO AN OFFICIAL ITALIAN REGISTRY OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS?
17.30: BENEDETTO LATTANZI AND VALENTINO MAIMONE – Journalists – Authors of the Documentary “Non voltarti indietro” – Founders of Errorigiudiziari.com
18.00: Question time
THE CONFERENCE IS PART OF THE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF THE ITALY INNOCENCE PROJECT (PROF. LUPÁRIA)
THE EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE AND IT IS SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR THE GLOBAL STUDY OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (OH) COLLEGE OF LAW, DIRECTED BY PROF. MARK GODSEY
Simultaneous translation English-Italian and vice versa
The Bar of Rome attributes no 10 credits for attendance
For registrations: eventi.procpen@gmail.com