DUKE LAW NEWS — Two new podcasts produced by Duke Law students launched Feb. 22 on major podcast platforms. Voices of Innocence, produced by the Duke Law Innocence Project, is a season-long exploration of the case of former Wrongful Convictions Clinic client Dontae Sharpe, who was convicted of murder by a Greenville, N.C., jury in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison despite the recantation of testimony by a key witness just weeks after trial. Sharpe was offered multiple plea agreements but maintained his innocence and spent 25 years in prison. He was exonerated in 2019 following ten years of work by Duke Law faculty and students and received a gubernatorial pardon of innocence in November. Voices of Innocence takes listeners inside Sharpe’s case in six episodes, highlighting his enduring faith and perseverance while examining the legal issues that emerged during his quarter-century quest for freedom. Episodes will include interviews with Sharpe’s mother, Sarah Blakely, and members of his legal team, including Charles S. Rhyne Clinical Professor Emerita Theresa Newman ’88; Caitlin Swain ’12, co-founder and co-director of Durham-based Forward Justice; John S. Bradway Professor of the Practice of Law James E. Coleman, Jr.; and Clinical Professor Jamie Lau ’09. Coleman is director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic; Lau is its supervising attorney.