IN SEATTLE last weekend, a group of people who spent time in prison for crimes they did not commit took the first step toward forming an Exonerees Council that will help new exonerees adjust to life after unjust imprisonment. One of the leaders of the group is a former Madison man named Anthony Hicks.
The meeting took place as part of the 2006 National Innocence Network Conference at the University of Washington School of Law. Keith Findley of the Madison-based Wisconsin Innocence Project was a panelist on a couple of seminars at the conference.