Lawrence C. Marshall is Legal Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions and professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law, where he teaches clinical practice, civil procedure, constitutional criminal procedure, legal ethics, appellate practice, and a seminar on wrongful convictions. Through the Center and Northwestern's Bluhm Legal Clinic, he has represented many wrongfully convicted defendants, including former Illinois death row prisoners Rolando Cruz, Gary Gauger, Anthony Porter, Ronald Jones, and Darby Tillis. He also represented Willie Rainge, one of the innocent men convicted in what has become known as the Ford Heights Four case.

A 1985 summa cum laude graduate of the Northwestern School of Law, Mr. Marshall clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens before joining the law school faculty in 1987. Mr. Marshall is a prolific author of both scholarly and popular articles on criminal justice issues. He has won a number of awards, including the American Bar Association's Pro Bono Award, the Mexican Legal Defense Fund Community Service Award, the Legal Eagle Award from the Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization, the Robert H. Childres Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Chicago Bar Foundation's Edward J. Lewis II Pro Bono Award.

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