Emily Bolton attended law school in New Orleans while working as a defence investigator on death penalty cases in the United States. On graduation she was awarded an Equal Justice Fellowship and later a Soros Advocacy Fellowship to establish Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) (www.ip-no.org), a non-profit law office providing legal representation to the wrongfully convicted. IPNO has so far reversed the convictions of 12 innocent prisoners.

Emily currently works as a freelance associate with the UK legal action charity Reprieve (www.reprieve.org.uk). At Scomo, Emily focuses on cases where a prisoner wishes to challenge his or her conviction via an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) (www.ccrc.gov.uk). Emily takes a fact-centred approach to reviewing cases for possible referral to the CCRC, including extensive document analysis, witness interviews, the re-evaluation of forensic evidence and crime scene review.

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