Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, sponsored the Tennessee Innocence Project’s (TIP) annual gala last week at Music City Center in Nashville.
The gala titled, “Celebrating Five Years of Fighting for Freedom,” recognizes the accomplishments of the organization – particularly the exoneration over the past five years of five Tennesseans wrongly imprisoned in the state, some for decades.
Exoneree Wayne Burgess, pictured here being recognized at the TIP gala, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1999 for the death of his girlfriend’s baby. He spent more than 20 years in a rural Tennessee prison for a crime he did not commit. After more than a year of diligent work by TIP attorneys, the conviction was overturned and vacated on April 13, 2023.
Founded in 2019, TIP is the first full-time innocence organization in the state, and represents individuals making claims of innocence with three focus areas: investigating and litigating actual innocence claims; training law students and attorneys to litigate these specialized claims and to learn processes around prevention; and effectuating change around the origin of wrongful convictions.
“Tennessee Innocence Project does important work to get justice for the wrongly accused,” Chalos said. “We are proud to support this organization.”
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