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Charles Press is the director of Texas Law’s Actual Innocence Clinic and supervises students in screening and investigating inmates' claims of innocence for offenses for which they are incarcerated. He has represented death-sentenced prisoners in California, serving as a deputy state public defender for the Habeas Corpus Resource Center in San Francisco. After graduating from law school in 1992, he served as a Death Penalty Law Clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 1998, he founded a non-profit in Jackson, Mississippi to represent death-sentenced prisoners in post-conviction proceedings and to assist private attorneys with these cases. His work there eventually led to the establishment of the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, funded by the State of Mississippi. From 2010 to 2012, Mr. Press was a Clinical Faculty Member and Senior Supervising Attorney at the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University Law School. Before joining Texas Law in 2013, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the California Appellate Project, a non-profit that assists private counsel appointed to represent California death-sentenced prisoners in direct appeal and post-conviction proceedings.
The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Director of Texas Law’s Actual Innocence Clinic; supervises law students in their legal work.
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