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Death Penalty Clinic

   Samson and Armilla
   Samson Asiyanbi ’08 (I) and Armilla Staley-Ngomo ’08 at the DPC’s 10th
   Anniversary Reuniion in April, 2012

   “I joined the Death Penalty Clinic in my third year, and, like most of
   my peers, the journey was supposed to last only a year. But it actually
   took me to Montgomery, Alabama, where the training and mentoring that I
   received from the clinic were integral to my practice in capital
   appeals at the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama. . . .The work I did
   there would have been impossible but for the clinic’s commitment to me
   as a student and investment in my development as a future attorney. The
   clinic, more than any other law school experience, prepared me for
   practice and allowed me to assume greater responsibilities early in my
   legal career.”

    —Samson Asiyanbi ’08, Attorney and Former Fellow, Equal Justice
   Initiative of Alabama

   Under the direct supervision of clinical faculty, Death Penalty Clinic
   students at Berkeley Law learn first-hand the responsibility and skills
   required to defend those facing our legal system’s greatest
   punishment.  Students gather life history documents, interview
   witnesses, and collaborate with experienced capital investigators and a
   variety of forensic experts. They research and draft pleadings
   addressing the legal claims in courts ranging from the state trial
   courts to the United States Supreme Court.  After investigating facts
   and marshaling legal claims in jurisdictions as diverse as Alabama,
   California, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia, capital punishment
   is never again an abstract concept for our students.

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