Tucker Carrington
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Tucker Carrington

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Tucker Carrington began practicing law in Washington, D.C., as an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown Law School. From there he moved to the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he was a trial and supervising attorney, handling all types of criminal matters—from panhandling to first degree murder.

In 2007, he became a clinical law professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he started and now directs and teaches in the George C. Cochran Innocence Project Clinic. The clinic—along with its students, co-counsel, and various partners—has litigated all manner of innocence cases, including on behalf of four individuals sentenced to death, one of whom, Curtis Flowers, is central to Carrington's newest book. Two of the clinic's other death-sentenced clients were, like Flowers, also exonerated; the fourth had his sentence vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2026.

Carrington’s clinic also advocates for criminal justice policy reform. Among the most impactful of those reforms has been the clinic’s effort to urge the Mississippi Legislature to pass a comprehensive DNA testing statute, which for the first time allowed imprisoned Mississippians to have biological evidence tested in cases where it wasn’t, or where the technology has advanced in ways that new, or more probative results, are possible.

In 2018, Carrington co-published with Radley Balko, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South. The Wall Street Journal praised it as a "superb work of investigative reporting;" the New York Times called it a "haunting true crime tale of systemic incompetence and racism" that demonstrates how structural flaws in the justice system disproportionately impact minority and poor populations.
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