After serving as director for the WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project since 2012, Prof. Marla Mitchell-Cichon recently turned the clinic’s leadership over to WMU-Cooley Associate Dean and Prof. Tracey Brame.
Mitchell-Cichon will continue to work with the project on a part-time basis, serving as legal counsel.
Brame most recently served as associate dean at WMU-Cooley’s Grand Rapids campus and is the director of the law school’s Access to Justice Clinic, which provides legal representation to those seeking to expunge their criminal convictions.
She joined WMU-Cooley’s faculty in 2006. Brame is the immediate past president of the Grand Rapids Bar Association and was named 2020 Lawyer of the Year by Michigan’s Lawyer’s Weekly.
The WMU-Cooley Innocence Project is part of the Innocence Network, which has been credited with the release of over 375 wrongfully accused prisoners through the use of DNA testing.
Mitchell-Cichon joined WMU-Cooley Law School in 1995, teaching in the Sixty Plus, Inc., Elderlaw Clinic and has worked with the law school’s Innocence Project since 2002.
In 2006, Mitchell-Cichon received the Justice for All Award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan.
In 2019, she received the Leo Farhat Outstanding Attorney award from the Ingham County Bar Association, the Champion of Justice award from the State Bar of Michigan and was named one of Michigan’s Leaders in the Law.
WMU-Cooley’s Innocence Project provides legal assistance to persons who are imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
It focuses on obtaining post-conviction DNA testing of material evidence and unreliable forensics.
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