Wrongful convictions to be topic of Adrian College Constitution Day address

ADRIAN — Wrongful convictions and the Bill of Rights will be the topic of Adrian College's Constitution Day address on Monday, Sept. 18.

David A. Moran, co-founder of the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic at the U-M Law School, will give the Philip J. Prygorski Constitution Day Address at noon in Knight Auditorium, which is inside Peelle Hall off Williams Street. It is free and open to the public.

Moran has devoted his career to exonerating and releasing wrongfully convicted inmates from Michigan prisons, a news release from Adrian College said. He has argued six cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Prior to joining U-M’s faculty, Moran was the associate dean for academic affairs at the Wayne State University Law School.

“I’m confident Professor Moran’s address will inspire us to think of constitutional rights in new and challenging ways,” Nathan Goetting, director of Adrian College's George W. Romney Institute for Law and Public Policy, said in the release.

AC’s Constitution Day addresses are named in honor of Philip J. Prygoski, who died in 2019. He was a former administrative law judge for the Michigan Board of Licensing and Regulation and a constitutional law professor for 35 years, who provided “invaluable support to the Romney Institute during the critical stages of its infancy,” the release said.

In recognition of his service to teaching and the Constitution, every year on Constitution Day, starting in 2012, Adrian College’s Romney Institute hosts a speaker to deliver the annual address on a contemporary issue of constitutional concern.

This article originally appeared on The Daily Telegram: Wrongful convictions topic of Adrian College Constitution Day address