Wrongful Conviction & False Accusation Witness Project

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS WITNESS & EXPERT PROJECT

Seeking Individuals with Professional Expertise or Lived Experience for Potential Testimony in Major Civil Rights Litigation

Pro Se Justice is assembling a national network of professionals, researchers, and individuals with lived experience who may be willing to review evidence and, where appropriate, provide declarations or testimony regarding issues commonly arising in civil rights litigation.

We are particularly interested in individuals with experience involving:

Wrongful Arrests & False Accusations

• Individuals who were falsely arrested
• Individuals who were falsely accused of serious crimes
• Persons later exonerated
• Family members of wrongfully convicted individuals
• Innocence Project participants

Wrongful Convictions

• Exonerees
• Former prisoners later proven innocent
• Family members of individuals wrongfully convicted
• Organizations working on innocence cases

Prison & Corrections

• Former correctional officers
• Former prison wardens
• Prison psychologists
• Prison chaplains
• Reentry professionals

Individuals with experience concerning:

• the treatment of prisoners maintaining innocence
• prison culture surrounding innocence claims
• psychological effects of wrongful incarceration

Police Practices

• Former detectives
• Internal Affairs investigators
• Former police supervisors
• Former federal agents
• Criminal investigators

Experience involving:

• report writing
• probable cause
• investigative standards
• evidence preservation
• inter-agency coordination

Immigration Enforcement

• Former ICE officers
• Former DHS personnel
• Immigration attorneys
• Immigration judges
• Asylum advocates
• Immigration policy researchers

Experience involving:

• immigration detainers
• removal proceedings
• collateral immigration consequences of criminal charges

Psychology & Trauma

Seeking professionals familiar with:

• PTSD
• false accusations
• wrongful imprisonment
• institutional trauma
• long-term reputational harm

Digital Evidence

• Digital forensic specialists
• Metadata analysts
• Database administrators
• Records custodians
• Audit log experts

Academic Experts

Professors and researchers specializing in:

• wrongful convictions
• criminal justice
• policing
• immigration
• sociology
• psychology
• constitutional law