Exonerating the wrongly convicted.
Freeing the wrongly incarcerated.
LAIP’s mission is to exonerate the wrongly convicted; free the wrongfully incarcerated; uncover and remedy past misuse of forensic and other scientific evidence in the courtroom; improve standards for the use of forensic and other scientific evidence in the courtroom; and reform the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.
Thanks to the generous support of our Founding Donor, Andy Wilson, LAIP provides pro bono investigatory services and legal representation to indigent individuals in Central and Southern California who assert claims of innocence.
Toward the future of forensic science.
LAIP works in partnership and collaboration with scientists and students at the California Forensic Science Institute (CFSI), led by Dr. Kathy Roberts, and Cal State LA’s School of Criminal Justice & Criminalistics, within the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center. CFSI scientists and students collaborate with LAIP attorneys to test the viability, reliability, and accuracy of evidence used to convict LAIP clients.
To heal and protect our communities.
At LAIP, we believe in a criminal legal system that recognizes the inherent dignity of all people. We believe in the possibility of a criminal legal system that is not infected by racial bias and does not criminalize poverty, mental illness, or drug addiction and that seeks to reduce harm, reconcile individuals, address trauma, and rebuild those individuals, communities, and institutions that have been damaged by crime and our society’s response to it.
Join us.
LAIP’s work is possible only due to the generous contribution of Andrew Leander Wilson, who was exonerated in 2017 after spending 32 years imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Join in Andy’s legacy by supporting LAIP today.
