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LSA senior Josh global c Cohen, one of the group's found- "Citizens ers, said Clinton responded posi- in our o' tively to the group. commit t Cohen said Clinton gave the in need a group some advice, telling it "the Clinto 21st centuryneeds to be redefined to at the co include active and global participa- The CC tion and citizenship," which Cohen the Clint said fits well into the group's goal. that brin The group's aim is to build online to take ax social networks to connect volun- people ax teers and donors to promote global The c citizenship. 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GI U conference isbuilt off on Global Initiative model gs world leaders together ction on difficulties facing round the world. onference featured over a d university students from and 60 countries, as well sentatives from nonprofit tions. r candidates. Boyd, the former senior e dean for student life at rgia Institute of Technol- ited yesterday and also th students over lunch. rd Walker, assistant vice t for student affairs at the ty of Miami, is the third Cohen said everyone there had made a commitment to action. "It's about turning good inten- sions into tangible results," he said. The conference consisted of a panel with notable speakers, including actress Natalie Port- man, two smaller sessions about nonprofit organizations and a CGI U exchange that allowed the par-' ticipants to get information about each other's organizations. Cohen said he was happy to get the chance to share his project with others at the conference. "We are proud of our projects but we're so engulfed in it that to back up and view it from an unbi- ased perspective and to see the validation from others was excit- ing," he said. "We saw really posi- tive reactions." Weinberg said seeing reac- tions from the other participants cemented hisbeliefthatthey"were on the right track." "The best part of it was that we got positive reactions from every- one, including other students, directors of other large nonprof- its and even former President Clinton," he said. "That the pro- gram can be well received by such a wide range of people is really encouraging." dean finalist and will be at the Michigan Union today. The University, in conjunc- tion with Greenwood/Asher and Associates - a consulting compa- ny - formed a search committee last fall to hire a replacement for the former Dean of Students Sue Eklund, who retired last year. STEM CELLS From Page 1A specific stem cell lines, which will help Michigan catch up to the stem cell developments in other states. "You have to admit that Michi- gan is behind, and so in order for us to compete at all, we're looking for a hook that would (make a) dif- ference or something unique, and we're going to try to do that using disease models," O'Shea said. The researcherswill obtain donat- ed stem cell lines containing genetic diseases from fertility clinics. These lines can be used to study. many diseases including Hunting- ton's disease and Lou Gehrig's dis- ease. However, to make new stem cell lines and establish the consortium, researchers are relying on dona- tions from private entities. INNOCENCE CLINIC From Page 1A of wrongful conditions because of DNA," said Bridget McCormack, co-director of the clinic and asso- ciate dean of the Law School, in a phone interview last week. "This suggests that the rate of wrongful convictions without DNA evidence may be just as high, if not higher, than those with DNA evidence." McCormack and Law Prof. David Moran, the other co-director, began receiving letters from incarcerated prisoners around the state who hoped their cases would be exam- ined by the new clinic, with more than 2,000 arriving in their mail- boxes since July. The prisoners then filled out a 19-page questionnaire, which was developed by the directors as a way for them to sift through the cases and determine which ones they would pursue further, Moran said. Out of the thousands of cases, six eventually were picked to comprise the clinic's first batch and then assigned to law students. Moran said the Reeds' case is a perfect example of the problems with criminal justice system. He said the same mistakes are being made "case after case," and can be broken down into six main factors: incorrect eyewitness accounts, false confessions, flawed science, faulty defense lawyering and jailhouse snitching. The case of Lorinda Swain, another one of the clinic's inaugu- ral six, is an example of what Moran calls one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions - overreli- ance on jailhouse testimony. Swain was convicted of crimi- nal sexual misconduct in 2001 for allegedly having oral sex with her adoptive son. The prosecutors on Swain's case relied solely on the testimony of an "Funds are needed to make new human embryonic stem cell lines, but that does not mean public funds," Smith said. "Our goals are to initiate work under Prop. 2 with funds provided by philanthropists or donors." O'Shea said the researchers are also anticipating friendly decisions from President Barack Obama con- cerning federal stem cell funding. "We're still working with the directive that even though we can derive stem cell lines, we can't do it with (National Institutes of Health) money," O'Shea said. "Until that changes, and I expect it will, we're still bound by the previous presiden- tial directive of President Bush." Universitystemcellresearchersare also eagerlywaitingObama'sremoval of the presidential ban that currently exists on stem cell work that was put in place by President Bush. Officials at the consortium are incarcerated woman who had been convicted more than 20 times for various charges, including embez- zlement, Moran said. "Whenever this woman went to jail, she always claimed to overhear somebody make a full confession to whatever the prosecution needed them to confess to," he said. "The Department of Corrections had a notation in this woman's file that she was not to be trusted. And she was the prosecution's star witness." This practice, coined "jailhouse snitching," often results in deals and dropped charges for the pris- oner who testifies. The clinic not only benefits pris- oners like Swain and the Reeds, but also gives law students hands-on experience since they do most of the work for the clinic. "What you don't learn in a stan- dard lav school class is how to actually try a real case," Moran said. "(Students) really become the attorneys for the clients." Student responsibilities include communicating with witnesses and clients, gathering facts, visiting the crime scene, writing persuasive motions and briefs for the judge and making appearances in court. Judd Grutman, a second-year law student who works in the Inno- cence Clinic, said he enjoys apply- ing his classroom knowledge to actual cases. "It's exciting and incredibly rewarding," he said. "We have all appreciated that you feel like you are putting what you have learned to use." In light of Michigan's incarcera- tion rate, which is 10 percent higher than the national average, directors and students at the clinic see the need for information about unjust convictions to be made public. "Common police practices, by no fault of their own, often end up not getting the right person," said third- year Lawstudent Mary Hanna-Weir, Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 7A also working to inform the public about how they can donate their embryos. Smith said he often receives phone calls from people in and out- side Michigan, asking where they can donate their embryos. "We look at this as an opportu- nity tobe able to inform the public and medical health professionals as to where and how they can donate their embryos to embryonic stem cell research," he said. Feldman said that as things start to come together for stem cell research in Michigan, medical advancements can't be far away. "Between the passage of Propos- al 2 and the lifting of the previous presidential restrictions of stem cell research, I know we'll really be able to accomplish a great deal of very meaningful stem cell-based medical research in Michigan," she said. who works in the clinic. "There's a lot that could be done, and it's good to have a more grounded under- standing of where the problems are so that we can fix them." Moran called the criminal jus- tice system "too inaccurate" and said the cases the Innocence Clinic is working on could be used to push for reforms in eyewitness interro- gation procedures and crime labs. Zoe Levine, a third-year law stu- dent who is working on the Reeds' case, said in an e-mail that she's "outraged by what has happened to the Reeds and to other innocent defendants." She said she's excited for the opportunity to "expose some of the systemic problems" in the criminal justice system. In the Reeds' case, Levine inves- tigated the conflicting eyewitness testimony, which identified Tyrone Allen, a now deceased man from Detroit, as an alternate suspect. . Witnesses said they saw Allen near the source of the gunshots when they were fired. In addition, Moran said police failed to provide some keyinformationtothedefense - Allen's girlfriend said the day Gholston was shot, Allen had told her that he committed the crime. Allen was killed in Detroit after the Reeds' trial took place, and the gun he was carrying at the time of his deathwasconfirmedtohave fired the bulletthat paralyzed Gholston. "(Gholston) blamed the Reeds because he had alongstanding feud with DeShawn Reed," Moran said. "But knowing what he knows now, even he no longer believes that they did it." The Reeds have spent eight years in prison, and during that time, Ghol- ston has formally admitted three times that his testimony was false, something that Moran views as cru- cial to proving the Reeds' innocence. 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