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Unlike many other innocence clinics, which specialize in DNA exonerations, the Michigan Innocence Clinic focuses on cases where there is no biological evidence to be tested. Their work indicates that some of the most common causes of wrongful conviction are eyewitness misidentification, junk science, false confessions, government misconduct and bad lawyering. These cases show us how the criminal justice system is in need of much repair and how the Michigan Innocence Clinic can combat troubling trends of the system.

U-M Law professor David Moran directs the Michigan Innocence Clinic. Professor Moran has argued six times before the United States Supreme Court. Among his most notable cases are Halbert v. Michigan, in which the Supreme Court struck down a Michigan law that denied appellate counsel to assist indigent criminal defendants who wished to challenge their sentences after pleading guilty. Professor Moran is an alumnus of the LSA Honors Program. He earned his BS in physics at the University of Michigan, a BA, MA, and CAS in Mathematics at Cambridge University, an MS in theoretical physics at Cornell University, and a JD at the Michigan Law School. He served for eight years as an assistant defender at the State Appellate Defender Office (SADO) in Detroit.