ADVISORY/ Barry Scheck at Thursday Press Conference at SCU; Joins in Announcing New Initiative to Help Free From California Prisons People Who Have Been Wrongfully Convicted.

News & Assignment Editors/Legal Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Feb. 15)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHAT:  Press conference
       Topic: Announcing a new initiative by Santa Clara University to
       provide legal assistance to people wrongfully convicted in
       California courts

WHEN:  1:15 p.m., Thursday,  Feb. 15

WHO:   Cookie Ridolfi, Santa Clara University professor of criminal
       law and director of the SCU Criminal Defense Law Clinic

       Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project at the
       Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City (featured in a
       recent PBS Frontline television documentary), former O.J.
       Simpson defense lawyer

WHERE: First-floor lounge, Bannan Hall, Santa Clara University campus

DIRECTIONS:
       Enter SCU via main entrance off El Camino Real, which is Palm
       Drive. Television trucks turn left at guard shack, pull up in
       front of 3-story building at left (Bannan Hall), pull up in
       front of building, parking next to sidewalk. All other press
       proceed past guard shack 100 yards to visitor parking on either
       side of Palm Drive.

NOTE:  Scheck will be speaking with SCU law students in Ridolfi's
       criminal law class beginning at noon in Room 142 Bannan Hall,
       across the hall from the site of the press conference. Media
       representatives are welcome to attend.