Students will travel to Corpus Christi to interview jurors on a death penalty case that recently resulted in a life verdict to better understand what led jurors in that case to vote for life, rather than death. The information gathered will assist capital trial teams in preparing a stronger defense and help post-conviction teams demonstrate how better representation could have kept their clients off death row.
Organization
Capital Punishment Center
The Capital Punishment Center brings together scholars, students, and practitioners interested in the death penalty and its administration. The Center supports academic and clinical course offerings and involves faculty and students in conferences, research projects, academic programs, lectures and the representation of men and women facing the death penalty in Texas.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
Friday, November 8, 2pm – Sunday, November 10, 6pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- Approximately 35 hours, including training and post-trip notes preparation
- Training
- Thursday, November 7, 4pm-8pm (CCJ 4.302)
- Skills used
- Fact-gathering; witness/juror interviewing; memo writing
- Project location
- Corpus Christi, Texas (students will carpool to the project location)
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 5
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L
- To Apply
- Submit email with a resume and a brief statement about your applicable skills and why you are interested in participating in this project to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu by 4pm on Friday, October 25