DPF Board President Mike Farrell
President of the Board of Death Penalty Focus, Mike Farrell is also a spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, Co-Chair Emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch, and, occasionally, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Richard A. Leo, Professor of Law and Social Psychology at University of San Francisco School of Law
Dr. Leo is one of the leading experts in the world on police interrogation practices, the impact of Miranda v. Arizona (1966), psychological coercion, false confessions, and the wrongful conviction of the innocent. He has written at least six books on these subjects, and hundreds of articles and research papers. Dr. Leo has worked on many high profile cases involving false confessions, including the cases of Earl Washington, the West Memphis 3, and two of the Central Park jogger defendants.
