On September 28, Damon Thibodeaux, at the age of 38, was given the gift of life. Thibodeaux was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his “step-cousin” in 1996 and spent 15 years on death row in Louisiana.  Grieving over his 14-year-old cousin’s death, he confessed to the crime during a grueling nine-hour interrogation in which police threatened to put him to death by lethal injection.  He later recanted the confession, citing pressure from police and grief, but was sentenced to death in 1997.  Despite his conviction, attorneys at Fredrikson & Byron P.A.*† believed in Thibodeaux’s innocence and agreed

The U.S. Supreme Court began a new term Monday and its docket is full of especially weighty issues. On October 10, the Court will hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a significant challenge to the use of affirmative action in higher education, and one in which we at The PBEye are particularly interested because of its significant draw of pro bono work.  Abigail Fisher, a white student who was denied admission, challenged the University of Texas’s admission policy as unconstitutional, arguing that the Court should overrule its opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), which held