Innocence Â鶹AV is a legal clinic based at Â鶹AV's Faculty of Law and dedicated to researching and investigating claims of wrongful conviction for serious crimes in Quebec. Founded in 2005, we are a student-led and student-run organization with oversight by our supervising lawyers (criminal defence attorneys). Our ultimate goal is to help secure the freedom of those who are factually innocent of serious crimes for which they continue to serve sentences in Quebec prisons.
Since 1992, various Innocence Projects in North America, including one at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, have worked to free over 300 innocent people. The stories of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, Romeo Phillion and others have raised serious questions about the extent of wrongful convictions in Canada, and Innocence Â鶹AV joins this network in search of justice in Quebec.
If you have been wrongfully convicted of a crime and would like Innocence Â鶹AV to consider your case, pleaseÌýfind out moreÌýabout whether you qualify for assistance and how to make an application.
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