Pennsylvania Innocence Project 5th Anniversary Celebration

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project (PaIP) celebrates its first five years of pursuing exonerations and freedom for the actually innocent and advocating for reforms that prevent wrongful convictions. 

The celebration begins at 6:00 p.m. with a cocktail party catered by Jose Garces in the Second Floor Lounge featuring music by Standard Time Jazz. Enjoy wine and beer courtesy of Moore Brothers Wine and Yards Brewing Company and our fabulous silent auction. 

The evening continues in the Perelman Theater at 7:00 p.m. with a program honoring, among others, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey for his leadership in the law enforcement community in adopting best investigative practices that protect the innocent from mistaken arrest and conviction. 

The cost of eyewitness misidentification is on display in the documentary of the case of Eugene Gilyard being developed by the Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law. A showing of the rough cut of the film will be followed by a discussion with Eugene who was freed in November 2013 after 15 years of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. 

Our celebration concludes with a dessert reception at 8:00 p.m. in the Second Floor Lounge.

General Admission $100 
Public Defenders, Public Interest and Government Attorneys $50 

Contact: Michelle Meltzer, Bread & Butter Productions (215) 605-2013