Two pro bono projects that Dorsey & Whitney has been working on this year in collaboration with the Innocence Project Inc., a nonprofit that seeks to exonerate individuals that have been wrongly convicted, came to an end in December.
Dorsey & Whitney’s client in Alaska—the firm has an office in Anchorage—was freed on Dec. 17 after spending 18 years in prison on charges that he and three other men known as the Fairbanks Four beat a 15-year-old boy to death. But after new evidence came to light, a new trial ended with their release after a settlement was reached with Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards.
