Board Member Jim Petro to Receive the Consitutional Commentary Award

Board member Jim Petro and his co-author Nancy Petro have been awarded the Constitutional Commentary Award for their work on the book “False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent”. The award is presented annually by the Constitution Project to an author or producer of an outstanding work that has improved the quality of public discourse through insightful, articulate analysis of an constitutional issue of the day. The Constitution Project is a Washington, D.C. based advocacy organization that works to reform the nation’s criminal justice system through scholarship, consensus policy reforms, advocacy, and public education. Jim Petro and Nancy Petro will receive the award, along with Brandon Garrett, author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong”, prior to a talk by the three authors on September 15 at the Georgetown University Law School of Law.