Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
mle9k@virginia.edu
(434) 924-2912
Room SL247A

ASSISTANT
Cynthia (Cindy) A. Derrick

Matthew L. Engle

Legal Director, Innocence Project Clinic
J.D., Washington and Lee University Law School, 2001
B.A., Cleveland State University, 1998

Matthew Engle is the legal director of the Law School's Innocence Project Clinic. He joined the Law School in 2010 from the Office of the Capital Defender, a public defender office that specializes in capital murder cases. At the Office of the Capital Defender, he represented indigent clients facing potential death sentences in trial courts throughout northern Virginia and on appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Engle, a Cleveland native, graduated from Washington and Lee School of Law in 2001. Afterward, he worked in Charlottesville at the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, where he represented Virginia death row inmates in state and federal habeas corpus litigation, appeals and clemency proceedings.

As the clinic's legal director, Engle helps students identify innocence cases and works with students to represent the wrongfully convicted.

Current Courses

In the Media

"Stafford Teen Will Get a Chance to Clear Name" (The Free-Lance Star, 02/25/2013)
"Prosecutor Says He Will Retry Former Virginia Death Row Inmate Justin Wolfe" (The Washington Post, 09/14/2012)
"Virginia Inmate Escapes Death Sentence by Admitting to Another Killing" (Associated Press, 05/31/2012)
"Murder Suspect Appears in Court, Enters Surprise Plea to Second Slaying" (InsideNoVa, 05/31/2012)
"Virginia Man Exonerated of 1978 Rape" (Staunton News-Leader, 05/25/2012)
"Va. Supreme Court Clears Charles City Co. Man in 1978 Rape" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 05/24/2012)
"Charles City Man Cleared in '78 Rape of W&M Student" (The Virginian-Pilot, 05/24/2012)
"Va. AG Backs Writ of Actual Innocence for James City County Man" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 05/01/2012)
"Hash Case Continued for DNA Analysis" (Culpeper Star Exponent, 04/16/2012)
"UVa's Innocence Project Having a Busy -- and Possibly Banner -- Year" (Daily Progress, 04/14/2012)
"Convicted Rapist Charged in 1978 Rape for Which Another Man Was Wrongfully Convicted" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03/26/2012)
"Culpeper Sheriff Defends Conduct in Hash Case" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03/18/2012)
"Hash Could Taste Freedom Wednesday" (The Free-Lance Star, 03/13/2012)
"The Exoneration of Bennett Barbour" (Slate, 03/12/2012)
"How Investigation 'Offended a Sense of Justice'" (Culpeper Star Exponent, 03/11/2012)
"With New DNA Evidence, Charles City Man Asked Name to be Cleared" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03/07/2012)
"Hash Conviction Overturned: Father: It Was All Lies" (Culpeper Star-Exponent, 03/02/2012)
"Verdict Tossed in 1996 Culpeper Slaying" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03/01/2012)
"Judge Overturns Culpeper Murder Conviction; Albemarle Sheriff 'Opened the Door' for Investigation" (Daily Progress, 02/29/2012)
"DNA Proves Wrongful Conviction" (WVTF/Radio IQ, 02/12/2012)
"DNA Tests Shows Va. Man Wrongfully Convicted of Rape" (Associated Press, 02/08/2012)
"Clinic Defends Convict" (Cavalier Daily, 02/08/2012)
"Wrongful Conviction, Delayed Justice" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 02/05/2012)
"A Bill Seeking Justice to Juveniles Wrongly Convicted of Crimes" (WVTF/Radio IQ, 01/17/2012)
"Former Aquia Harbour Teen Whose Accuser Recanted Her Rape Claim Has Hearing in Va. Supreme Court" (The Free Lance-Star, 01/13/2012)
"Wrongly Accused Rape Convict Takes Case to Va. Supreme Court" (Washington Post, 01/13/2012)
"Wake-Up Call: The Virginia Innocence Project" (WNRN, 11/13/2011)
"Innocence Project Says Recent Arrest Unwarranted" (WINA, 10/19/2011)
"Evening Edition for Sept. 15, 2011" (WVTF, 09/15/2011)
The Innocence Project (WVTF/RadioIQ, 09/08/2011)
Law Students Help Overturn Conviction (Cavalier Daily, 09/06/2011)
"Murder Conviction Most Foul" (Slate, 07/14/2011)
"'Miracle' Conviction or One More Mistake?" (Washington Post, 11/27/2010)
"UVa Law Students Help Take Death Penalty Case to State's High Court" (Daily Progress, 10/10/2010)