Articles Featuring Jennifer L. Givens

Innocence Clinic Leaders Win UVA’s Collaborative Excellence in Public Service Award
May 13, 2022
Innocence Project at UVA Law Helps Obtain $6.25 Million in Compensation for Clients, Proposes Reforms
May 3, 2022
6 Innocence Project Clients Win Freedom So Far in 2022
March 10, 2022
Last Member of ‘Culpeper Three’ Exonerated
January 6, 2022
Hatchett, Premjee Take on New Roles With Innocence Project
August 25, 2021
Third Innocence Project Client Receives Absolute Pardon
August 17, 2021
Three Faculty Members Promoted
July 22, 2021
Innocence Project Client Receives Absolute Pardon
July 16, 2021
UVA Law Launches New Project on Criminal Justice Reform
July 6, 2021
Innocence Project Client Freed on Conditional Pardon
July 2, 2020
Innocence Project Helps Wrongfully Convicted Virginians Have Better Shot at Writ of Innocence
April 14, 2020
Innocence Project at UVA Law Celebrates 10 Years
March 8, 2019
Client Paroled for Crime That UVA Law Clinic Says He Never Committed
September 26, 2018
Six UVA Law Faculty Members Promoted
June 18, 2018
Innocence Project at UVA Law Wins Exoneration for Man Convicted of Two Bank Robberies
May 23, 2018
Freed UVA Innocence Project Client Messiah Johnson Heads Home
April 27, 2018
Innocence Clinic Wins Release of Man Convicted of Armed Robbery
January 12, 2018
Innocence Project Seeks Justice for Man With 132-Year Sentence
UVA Law Innocence Project Client Released After 30 Years
May 26, 2017
Innocence Project Directors Explain Reasons for Wrongful Convictions
Pro Bono Clinic Fundraiser to Feature Panel of 5 Falsely Convicted
April 12, 2017
New Evidence Bolsters 2 Habeas Petitions Filed by Innocence Project at UVA Law
March 24, 2017
UVA Law's Top Stories of 2016
December 27, 2016
UVA Law's Innocence Project Finds DNA That May Exonerate Man
October 25, 2016
UVA Law's Criminal Law Faculty Help Shape National Conversation on Justice
July 27, 2016
Judge Agrees to Test DNA Evidence UVA Law Innocence Project Discovered
February 23, 2016
Norfolk Man Exonerated 2 Decades After Conviction on Testimony From Coerced Witness, Disgraced Police Detective
July 25, 2022
Virginia Governor Pardons Man Convicted in 2002 Killing
January 8, 2022
‘An Innocent Man Was Behind Bars’: Northam Grants Full Pardon to Man Convicted in 2002 Portsmouth Killing
January 8, 2022
Another Wrongfully Convicted Man Given Absolute Pardon
August 18, 2021
Northam Grants Absolute Pardon to Wrongfully Convicted Man
July 22, 2021
Opinion: Virginia Must Bolster Access to Police Investigations
February 27, 2021
Since 1608, Virginia Has Executed More People Than Any Other State. It May Now Abolish the Death Penalty.
January 31, 2021
Virginia’s Lawmakers Look Into Abolishing Death Penalty
January 27, 2021
Will Virginia Abolish the Death Penalty? Surovell’s Bill Advances
January 20, 2021
Virginia Falls Short in Compensating the Wrongfully Imprisoned, Study Finds
November 24, 2020
Opinion: Want Police Accountability? Strengthen Transparency Laws.
August 13, 2020
‘I Would Like To Clear My Name’: Man Who Claims He Is Innocent of 1985 Lancaster Murder Is Back in Court
May 21, 2020
New Evidence Will Get Weighed in 35-Year-Old Murder Conviction
April 15, 2020
Shawn Armbrust, Deirdre Enright and Jennifer Givens Column: Virginia Needs Real Justice for the Wrongly Convicted
February 22, 2020
Bill Easing Hurdles To Prove Wrongful Convictions Advances
February 4, 2020
A Murder on the Rappahannock River
June 27, 2019
Legislators Compensate Covington Man for Decade Spent in Jail
April 26, 2019
Man Walks Out of Jail, Plans To Continue Fighting To Clear His Name From 1991 Virginia Beach Rape Conviction
September 28, 2018
A Daycare Provider, Shaken Baby Science And Hope For A Pardon
July 24, 2018
Virginia Court of Appeals Arguments in Bank Robbery, Innocence Case
April 10, 2018
A Second Chance For the Wrongfully Convicted
January 25, 2018
Man Serving 132-Year Sentence for 1997 Robbery Under Consideration for Clemency
December 22, 2017
Two Innocence Claims Filed Friday for Virginia Man Who Was Freed From Prison After Another Man Confessed
December 15, 2017
Man Serving 132 Years for Robbery Speaks Out
July 23, 2017
Doomed to Die in Prison, "Ghent Robber" Loses Battle to Prove Innocence in Norfolk Court but Will Fight On
June 20, 2017
Virginia Man Spent Nearly 10 Years in Prison for Crime He Did Not Commit
June 6, 2017
More Than 1,000 People In State Prisons May Be Innocent
April 25, 2017
Michael Hash Part of 'Speaking of Injustice' Panel Wednesday at U.Va. Law School
April 19, 2017
UVA Group is Working Towards Ending Wrongful Convictions in Virginia
April 17, 2017
Strand of Doubt: Could Technology Overturn a Rape Conviction?
February 9, 2017
Innocence Project Casts Doubt on Stevens' 1986 Murder Conviction
January 25, 2017
Innocence Project Questions Fentress Murder Conviction
December 14, 2016
UVA Law Program Uncovers Evidence in 1990 Rape Case
March 6, 2016
Virginia Beach Judge Allows Re-Testing of Evidence in Brutal 1990 Rape of Girl
February 22, 2016