Obie Anthony III was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder and attempted robbery in 1995. There was no physical evidence connecting Anthony to the murder. Instead, prosecutors relied on the testimony of a convicted killer who ran a house of prostitution near the scene of the crime, and who claimed to have seen the shooter.
In 2008 the Northern California Innocence Project took on Anthony’s case. Three years later the court vacated Anthony’s conviction. After 17 years in prison, Anthony was released and filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, which agreed to settle the claim for $8.3 million.
Join us to hear from Mr. Anthony and David McLane, one of the attorneys who represented him in his civil rights lawsuit.
Lunch will be served. Undergraduates welcome and encouraged to attend.
Presented by the Notre Dame Exoneration Project. Co-sponsored by the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, the Notre Dame Exoneration Law Clinic, The Public Interest Law Forum, The Notre Dame ACLU, the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Constitution Society.