Tucker Carrington
Associate Dean of Clinical Programs, Director of the Innocence Project and Professor of Law
Professor Carrington is the founding director of the Mississippi Innocence Project (MIP) and Clinic at the University of Mississippi School of Law. MIP’s mission is to identify, investigate and litigate actual claims of innocence by Mississippi prisoners, as well as advocate for systemic criminal justice reform.
Biography
Prior to coming to Ole Miss, Professor Carrington was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown Law Center, a trial and supervising attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and a visiting clinical professor at Georgetown. Professor Carrington is a member of the American Law Institute, and co-author with Radley Balko of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist (Public Affairs 2018).
Publications
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free.
In The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi’s death investigation system — a relic of the Jim Crow era — failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.
Education
B.A. English, University of Virginia Main Campus (1989)
M.A. English, Hollins College (1990)
J.D. Law, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (1997)