Taiwan Innocence Project - US-Asia Law Institute

Taiwan Innocence Project is excited to share a good news that on May 15, 2020, our client, Mr. Hsieh Chih-Hung, who had been sentenced to death in 2011 and ... About Mission People Opportunities Contact Work AboutourWork InternationalLaw&Relations LegalExchange Research JapanCenter NYUPrograms Events UpcomingEvents EventRecordings PastEvents TheGelattDialogue USALIPerspectives RecentArticles MissionStatement EditorialAdvisoryBoard HowtoSubmit VisitingScholarProgram News Support TaiwanInnocenceProject OnDecember82020,US-AsiaLawInstituteheldanonlinewebinarfeaturingtherecentdevelopmentsinthe“innocence”workinbothEastAsiaandtheUnitedStates.ThiseventinvitedexpertsfromChina,Japan,TaiwanandtheU.S.tosharewiththeaudiencethesignificanttrendsinexoneratingtheinnocent,withspecialfocusesontheexclusionofjunkscienceandthepositiveandnegativerolesplayedbyprosecutors. TaiwanInnocenceProjectisexcitedtoshareagoodnewsthatonMay15,2020,ourclient,Mr.HsiehChih-Hung,whohadbeensentencedtodeathin2011andspent18yearsbehindbars,wasexonerated! On April1,2020.SeniorResearchFellowIraBelkinandUSALIstaffAllenClayton-Greene,AmyGao,YinChi,andEliBlood-Pattersonintroduce the U.S.-AsiaLawInstitute's(USALI) program:"PreventingandRedressingWrongfulConvictions." Throughthisprogram,internationalexperts,includingindividualswhothemselveshadbeenwrongfullyconvictedandlaterexonerated,sharedtheirexperience andstate-of-the-artexpertisewiththeAsiancriminaljusticecommunityconcerningtherootcausesofwrongfulconvictionsandmeasuresthatcanbeadoptedtopreventthemandredressthem.Belkindiscussestheprojectbackground,activities,andlessonslearned,whileUSALIstaffmemberssharethe long-term impacttheprogramhashadinTaiwan,China,andJapanrespectively.Overthecourseofthefouryearprogram,approximately70criminaljusticeexpertsfromAsiaparticipatedinintensivemonth-longworkshopsatNYUandover500ChineseandJapaneseexpertsattendedlecturesgivenbyUSALI-sponsoredinternationalexpertsinChinaandJapan,respectively.TheuseofsocialmediaexpandedtheaudienceinAsiatohundredsofthousands.TheprojecthasledtotheexpansionofInnocenceworkinAsiaaswellasmoreAsianexpertsjoiningtheinternationalcommunityoflawyersdoingInnocencework.ProjectparticipantspublishedseveralbooksandnumerousarticlesinmultiplelanguagesontopicsrelevanttoInnocencework,fromhowcommoninterrogationtechniquescanleadtofalseconfessionstowhyprisonsshouldhavelawlibraries.EventVideos PartI:SeniorResearchFellowIraBelkindiscussestheprojectbackground.PartII:SeniorResearchFellowdiscussestheprojectoverview,includingactivitiesinNewYorkandoverseas.PartIII:ResearchScholarYinChidiscussestheprojectimpactinChina,especiallyitsimpactforInnocenceMovementGroups.PartIV:ResearchScholarAllenClayton-GreeneintroducestheTaiwanInnocenceProject,includingthesuccessfulexonerationsandcapacitybuildinginAsia.PartV:ResearchScholarAmyGaointroducesInnocenceProjectJapan(IPJ)andUSALI’simpactinJapan.ProjectVI:ResearchScholarandProgramManagerEli-BloodPattersondiscussestheimpactthattheprojecthadintheUnitedStates.PartVII:SeniorResearchFellowIraBelkindiscusseslessonslearnedfromtheproject.  OnDecember11,2019theTaiwanInnocenceProject(TIP)willholdthefirstInnocenceFilmFestival,entitled“WhatIf”Thedocumentaries(withlimitedEnglishsubtitles)fallunderthreethemes:IfLifeCouldBeReplayed, IfPainCanSpeak,&IfTruthIsNotTrue.