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(CCLI)
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Goals: Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI) • Provide training and technical assistance to prosecutors and defense attorneys’ litigation capital cases. Wrongful Conviction Review Program • To enhance and/or expand the capacity of wrongful conviction review (WCR) entities and conviction integrity units (CIUs) and their criminal justice and victim services partners to better identify, assess, and manage post-conviction claims of innocence and preventing future errors to ensure while bring justice for victims. Objectives: Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI) - In an effort to improve the quality of legal representation and to ensure reliable jury verdicts in state capital cases, the CCLI seeks to improve the quality and effectiveness of representation in death penalty cases through training for both the prosecutors who represent the public and the defense attorneys who represent indigent defendants in state capital cases. Performance Measure: Number of individuals who received training or technical assistance Wrongful Conviction Review Program - The Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program (URLPWC) ensures all grantees over the project period have access to the resources needed to support the effective implementation of their projects to: Increase the number of case review requests received by the program. Increase and document the number of case reviews that result in an innocence exoneration by the program. Develop and enhance strong partnerships between entities and other criminal justice organizations and victim services. Develop and implement a wrongful conviction risk assessment process. Enhance capacity to identify and review high-risk cases. Enhance the expertise of the entities to support quality post-conviction and appellate legal representation in the identified cases. Enhance the ability to demonstrate the value of identifying appropriate suspects when convictions are overturned. Enhance the ability to demonstrate the value of seeking to overturn challenged convictions. Enhance the collection and analysis of data to support the prevention of error and enhance efforts to review and manage claims of innocence. Performance Measure 1: Number of cases received, Performance Measure 2: Number of cases reviewed, Performance Measure 3: Number of cases reviewed resulting in innocence exoneration, Performance Measure 4: Number of new or established partnerships between an innocence organization (IO) that partners with a conviction integrity unit (CIU) or CIU that partners with an IO.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
An evaluation is currently being conducted to demonstrate the impact of the Wrongful Conviction Review program.
An evaluation is currently being conducted to demonstrate the impact of the Wrongful Conviction Review program.
• Post-Conviction Claims of Innocence Review funds have led directly or indirectly to the exoneration of 25 innocent people who were wrongly convicted. More than 20 actual perpetrators have been identified. • This funding has greatly increased grantees’ ability to screen and investigate claims of innocence more effectively and quickly, eliminating or reducing case backlogs that were often significant. • Increased staff support allowed grantees to recruit and supervise more law students and volunteer lawyers to assist in case screening, investigation, and litigation, thereby multiplying the impact of the grant funds. • Grantees have been able to pursue potential cases of wrongful conviction in many remote and rural jurisdictions that have historically been underserved by innocence efforts.
Please visit https://bja.ojp.gov/program/ccli/overview
As of December 2023 (from 2018 to 2024), there has been 64 exonerations with the most recent being Kevin Johnson, who served 14 years of a 30-year sentence for a crime he did not commit. Kevin was released from prison on June 2, 2023.
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6619
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
