MEDIA

We are based in Portland but we take cases from all over Oregon. Our major areas of work include innocence and wrongful convictions, exonerations, and legal reforms to prevent wrongful convictions.

Primary media contact

Alice Lundell
Director of Communication
503.563.3356 | alundell@ojrc.info

press releases and media advisories

9/10/18 Oregon Innocence Project Announces its First Exoneration

7/6/18 Statement from the Oregon Innocence Project about the exoneration of Bradley Holbrook

2/13/18 Statement in response to denial of our client Jesse Johnson's motion for DNA testing

4/27/17 San Antonio Four visit Portland to support Oregon Innocence Project: Press Release

4/27/17 San Antonio Four visit Portland to support Oregon Innocence Project: News Advisory

4/11/17 Statement on National Commission on Forensic Science

8/16/16 Statement in response to guilty plea by Nika Larsen, OSP crime lab scientist.

6/23/16 Statement in response to Bend Bulletin article, "State police conducting inquiry into examiner at Portland lab."

5/9/16 First US death row DNA exoneree to visit Portland May 11-12: Press Release

5/9/16 First US death row DNA exoneree to visit Portland May 11-12: Media Advisory

3/10/16 Oregon Innocence Project statement in response to Bend Bulletin article, "Third OSP lab under investigation."

3/8/16 Oregon Innocence Project commends DA John Hummel for crime lab transparency

9/25/15 Oregon Innocence Project welcomes workgroup on OSP crime lab; calls for thorough and transparent review

9/17/15 Oregon Innocence Project demands independent review of problems at OSP crime lab

9/3/15 Campaign to exonerate wrongfully convicted Oregonians strengthened by new global connection

oip in the news

1/13/19 The Register-Guard: Oregon voters may soon be asked to require unanimous verdicts

12/15/18 KGW: DNA testing to exonerate convicts may change in Oregon

12/15/18 Salem Reporter: Change in Oregon’s DNA law could free wrongly convicted defendants, legislators told

12/15/18 Statesman Journal: Oregon lawmakers will weigh DNA testing for exoneration

12/12/18 KATU: Wrongfully convicted man takes story to Salem

10/2/18 NPR: Oregon appeals court hears challenge to non-unanimous convictions

9/23/18 The Oregonian: Exoneration shows need to repeal Oregon’s nonunanimous jury rule

9/21/18 The Register-Guard: DAs should work with the Oregon Innocence Project

9/20/18 BBC News: Five surprising reasons prisoners have been freed

9/19/18 OPB: Exonerations raise questions about Oregon’s controversial jury system

9/13/18 The Washington Post: A dead-dog story helped convict a man of child sex abuse. Then the black lab was found alive

9/13/18 OPB: Think Out Loud

9/11/18 CBS News: How Lucy the Lab overturned a sex abuse conviction

9/11/18 KOIN: Labrador saves Oregon man from sex conviction

9/11/18 BBC News: Labrador saves US man from wrongful sex abuse prison term

9/10/18 The Oregonian: Discovery of dog leads to case dismissed against Oregon man convicted of sex abuse

9/10/18 The Bulletin: Charges dropped for Redmond man with 50 year prison sentence

9/10/18 KTVZ: Redmond man cleared of abuse conviction, 50-year sentence

9/10/18 Willamette Week: Central Oregon man cleared of child sex abuse charges after Oregon Innocence Project intervenes in case

9/10/18 OPB: Redmond man exonerated after being sentenced to 50 years in prison

2/13/18 The Oregonian: Judge denies Oregon death row inmate's request for new DNA testing in murder case