USC's Post-Conviction Justice Project
Professor of Law at the University of Southern California and Director of its Post-Conviction Justice Project
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Heidi Rummel
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FROM Heidi Rummel
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Free After 32 Years 32 years ago, Mary Virginia Jones went to prison for murder. She was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for her involvement in the killing of a drug dealer. But it was her boyfriend who pulled the trigger. Mary Jones was an unwilling bystander, forced to be there by her abusive boyfriend.
Which Way, L.A.?
Schwarzenegger's Final Day Pardons On his last night in office, former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the prison sentence of Esteban Núñez from 16 years to seven. Two years ago, Núñez was involved in a knife fight at San Diego State University, during which a 22-year-old man was stabbed to death. Núñez is now 21.
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Art Talk
Richard Diebenkorn at Weisman Museum at Pepperdine Hunter Drohojowska-Philp welcomes a show of previously unseen paintings.