The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is celebrating the launch of its new innocence clinic with a screening of a documentary about an exonerated man on Wednesday evening.

Carey Law and the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in April announced the creation of a new innocence clinic , in which law students work under the supervision of criminal defense attorneys on behalf of people who have been convicted of serious crimes in Maryland state courts but maintain their innocence. The clinic began its work at the start of the fall semester last month.

The Innocence Project Clinic at Carey Law on Wednesday evening is hosting a screening of “Sixteen Years,” a documentary about Jeffrey Deskovic, who was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder north of New York City

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