Barred From Life: Dance, Performance Event Explores Tragedy of Wrongful Conviction; SCU Professor Interviews Exonerees to Create Artistic Interpretation of Their Experience.

AScribe Law News Service, March, 2004

Byline: Santa Clara University

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- James Newsome was a victim of false identification and spent 15 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit; Delbert Tibbs spent time on death row before he was acquitted.

Barred from Life is a performance work that uses real life experiences of individuals like Newsome and Tibbs to bring home the tragic consequences of wrongful conviction.

Created and performed by David J. Popalisky, assistant professor of dance at Santa Clara University, in collaboration with Kathleen (Cookie) Ridolfi, director of the Northern California Innocence Project, Barred from Life illuminates the human experience of individuals convicted for crimes they did not commit.

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