What are the barriers and pathways to freedom for the wrongfully convicted? What are the challenges the innocent face in proving their case? This panel will examine procedural, legal, and institutional obstacles to overturning convictions, assess current avenues for release, and outline new strategies to ensure justice is truly within reach.

Moderator: Dan Slepian, Producer, NBC Dateline

Josh Dubin, Executive Director of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn

Vanessa Potkin, Director of Special Litigation, Innocence Project

Barry Scheck, Co-Founder, Innocence Project

JJ Velazquez Executive Director, Voices From Within