District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit

The Conviction Integrity Unit is responsible for assuring that the District Attorney’s Office adopts the most professional and ethical practices in criminal prosecution to reduce the chance of a future wrongful conviction, and to evaluate and investigate past cases where a miscarriage of justice has been alleged. The unit investigates innocence claims and implements the most ethical practices in criminal prosecution. Some of the programs within the Unit are a Brady Committee to investigate police officer misconduct, double blind eyewitness identification, Open File Discovery, a collateral consequences policy to prevent undocumented individuals from deportation for non-violent and low-level offenses, race blind issuing to combat bias, a Body Worn Camera policy to increase confidence in policing, and a model protocol for the independent and transparent investigation of police officer involved shootings.