LAW OFFICES - NEWS
Fall 2009 In-House Clinics
All new Law Offices In-House clinic students must attend the orientation
meeting on Monday, August 24, 2009 at 4:00 in room 510. Students
who have taken the Law Offices before do not need to attend this
meeting but must pick up a handbook from the receptionist in the
Law Offices.
Here is the schedule of when you will meet with your supervising
attorney for the first time.
Richard Gonzalez - after orientation, Room C35
Richard Kling - after orientation, Room 581
Jon Decatorsmith - after orientation, Room 601
Ed Kraus - after orientation, Room 627
Rhonda de Freitas - after orientation, Room 470
Dan Coyne - after orientation, room 635
Natalie Brouwer Potts - after orientation, room 370
Laurie Leader - Tuesay at noon, Room 635
Barrett/Engel (IP Clinic) - TBA
Externships
Please visit Chicago-Kent's Record
website to view all available externship positions.
Law Offices Attorneys Help Free Innocent Man
On January 8th, 2008, Professor Richard Kling and his Law Offices
Colleague, Susana Ortiz, saw victory in the case of their client,
Herb Whitlock. Mr. Whitlock, of downstate Paris, Illinois, was wrongfully
incarcerated on murder charges for over 20 years and thanks to the
efforts of Professor Kling and Ms. Ortiz and teams of Law Offices
clinic students who have been working on the case for the past 7
years, Mr. Whitlock saw freedom when the State dismissed the charges
against him as a result of a new trial obtained for him by Kling
and Ortiz. In the Appellate Court opinion which granted Mr. Whitlock
a new trial, the Court cited the fact that favorable evidence was
hidden from the defense and that Mr. Whitlock’s trial counsel
was ineffective for failing to investigate key forensic evidence
that would have shed serious doubt on the credibility of the State’s
witnesses. After his release, Mr. Whitlock was reunited with his
daughter, Brittany, who was 12 at the time of his original trial
and he met his seven-year old grandson for the first time. Read
the article from the Chicago
Tribune. CBS television show 48 Hours Mystery ran
a show about this case on March 1, 2008. For more information about
this show, please visit the CBS
48 Hours Mystery webpage.
Law Offices Professor Admitted into U.S. Supreme Court
On January 7, 2008, Professor Daniel Coyne was admitted on motion
in open court before all nine justices of the supreme court in a
group admission ceremony. The admission was sponsored by the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. There were ten admittees
from various jurisdictions across the country. Immediately following
the admission, the death penalty case of Baze v. Rees was argued.
Baze challenges the propriety of the use of lethal injection to
execute condemned inmates.
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