Rocky Mountain Innocence Center

Rocky Mountain Innocence Center

Earlier this week, I attended a fundraiser for the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center.  For those of you who do not know about this non profit organization, they work tirelessly on cases of convicted individuals that they have some reason to believe have been wrongfully convicted.  It is an amazing organization.  It is humbling to know that our system does not always get it right and that there are people in prison or even on death row who are innocent. Our speaker for the event was Debra Brown. Debra Brown spent 17 years in prison for a murder she did not commit. She was convicted in 1995 of murdering her friend and employer, Lael Brown, who was found shot to death in his home in Logan, Utah. In 2011, Utah Second District Court declared Ms. Brown factually innocent and ordered her release from prison.

 

Cara Tangaro,

Salt Lake City, Utah Criminal Defense Attorney