Death Penalty Clinic Client Released After Eight Years in Prison

Press accounts:

• “Law Students’ Rare Satisfaction,” The Recorder, July 23 2007
• “Wrongly Convicted Man Freed With Help of Bay Area Law Students,” KCBS.com, July 22, 2007
• “Legal Lesson Wins Man’s Freedom,” San Francisco Daily Journal, July 20, 2007
• “A free man,” The Berkeleyan, March 1, 2007

Co-counsel on Mr. Rhone’s case: Southern Center for Human Rights  

Photographs from Mr. Rhone’s release, February 8, 2007:

Walter Rhone celebrating his release with his family.

(l-r) Clinic Associate Director Ty Alper; Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) Attorney William Montross; Walter Rhone; former SCHR investigator Celia Perry.

Mr. Rhone and his family with members of the legal team following his release.