TASK FORCE TO STUDY ERRONEOUS CONVICTION & IMPRISONMENT

Scott D. Shellenberger, Esq., Chair (chosen by Governor)


[photo, 100 Community Place, Crownsville, Maryland] Appointed by Senate President: Delores G. Kelley; William C. Smith, Jr.

Appointed by House Speaker: Kathleen M. Dumais; Michael E. Malone.

Appointed by Dean, University of Baltimore School of Law: Michele M. Nethercott, J.D.

Appointed by Dean, University of Maryland School of Law: Renee M. Hutchins, J.D.


100 Community Place, Crownsville, Maryland, July 2016. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.


Ex officio: Elihai A. Braun, designee of Public Defender; Donald J. Hogan, designee of Executive Director, Governor's Office of Crime Control & Prevention; Scott D. Shellenberger, Esq., designee of President, Maryland State's Attorneys' Association; Walter Lomax, Director, Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative.

Staff: Tiffany A. Maclin

c/o Governor's Office of Crime Control & Prevention
100 Community Place, Crownsville, MD 21032
(410) 697-9323
e-mail: tiffany.maclin@maryland.gov
web: https://goccp.maryland.gov/councils-commissions-workgroups/erroneous-conviction-and-imprisonment/


Report to Governor & General Assembly due Dec. 15, 2017 (Chapters 799 & 800, Acts of 2017).

In October 2017, the Task Force to Study Erroneous Conviction and Imprisonment formed (Chapters 799 & 800, Acts of 2017).

The Task Force is to study Maryland's current process for establishing whether a person was convicted wrongly and how to determine innocence, as well as the processes used by other states for designating an erroneous conviction, determining the innocence of a person who was convicted in error, and compensating for the imprisonment that resulted from wrongful conviction. Further, the Task Force will recommend whether Maryland should implement a new process for designating erroneous convictions and determining the innocence of persons so convicted.

Authorization for the Task Force ends September 30, 2018.

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