BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Wrongful Conviction Day | Proving the Unprovable: The Exonerati on of Nancy Smith\, Oct. 4\n\nThe Center for Law\, Justice & Culture and th e Ohio Innocence Project commemorate Wrongful Conviction Day on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Athena Cinema. \n\n \n\n"Proving the Unprovable: The Exonerat ion of Nancy Smith" features Ohio Innocence Project Director Mark Godsey an d exoneree Nancy Smith. This event also is sponsored by the Division of Div ersity and Inclusion and the Women's Center.\n\n \n\nSmith was a bus driver in Lorain\, Ohio\, who was falsely accused of a sexual assault that never happened. The investigation into Smith was dropped by the original prosecut or\, Tom Cantu\, due to lack of evidence and multiple confirmations of Smit h’s alibi. Two new prosecutors later had Cantu removed and sparked an inves tigation back into Smith and an unknown accomplice “Joseph.” Joseph Allen\, a man with previous sexual assault convictions\, was accused of being the accomplice and tried alongside Smith in 1993. Both were convicted in 1994. \n\n \n\nThe Ohio Innocence Project helped fight for the 2022 exoneration o f Smith. OIP argued that the conviction was based on a case that had a lack of evidence and used coached statements with credibility issues. Godsey ca lled Smith’s conviction “long\, painful and patently unfair.” \n\n \n\nGod sey is the Daniel P. and Judith L. Carmichael Professor of Law and Director at the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Pro ject in the College of Law at the University of Cincinnati. He has secured the release of 35 innocent individuals. He graduated from the Moritz Colleg e of Law at Ohio State University and is the author of Blind Justice: A For mer Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions. Following law school\, Godsey clerked for Chief Judge Monroe G. McKay of t he U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Salt Lake City\, Utah. Go dsey also has practiced civil litigation and white collar-criminal defense\ , and worked for the Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. DTEND:20221005T000000Z DTSTAMP:20241127T030030Z DTSTART:20221004T230000Z GEO:39.328395;-82.100838 LOCATION:Athena Cinema SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Wrongful Conviction Day | Proving the Unprovable: The Exoneration o f Nancy Smith\, Oct. 4 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41040460517994 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/wrongful_conviction_day_oct_4 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR