Emily Bolton

As a Programme Adviser, Emily Bolton is a freelance associate with Reprieve, focusing on death penalty casework and providing support to the management teams.

Emily Bolton attended law school in New Orleans while working as an investigator on death penalty cases in the Deep South. When she graduated, Emily received a NAPIL Equal Justice Fellowship and later a Soros Advocacy Fellowship to establish Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO), a non-profit law office providing legal representation to the wrongfully convicted. IPNO has so far reversed the convictions of 15 innocent prisoners, and in 9 of these cases the prisoners owe their release, in whole or in part, to Emily's work. In 2007, working as a UK solicitor for the firm Scott-Moncrieff, Harbour and Sinclair, Emily brought a wrongful conviction case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which was referred by the Commission to the Court of Appeal. That Court quashed the conviction in 2010 and the prisoner was released the same day, marking the tenth exoneration that Emily has worked to achieve.

Contact: info@reprieve.org.uk