Joshua Tepfer

Project Coordinator and Staff Attorney

Joshua Tepfer is Project Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Josh has been involved with more than ten exonerations of convicted men, including as legal counsel in two cases known as the Dixmoor Five and Englewood Four. Those cases involved nine men exonerated by DNA evidence two decades after they were arrested, and seven of them confessed as teenagers during police interrogation. Josh lectures and writes frequently on issues related to interrogations, false confessions, and wrongful convictions of youth, and he is co-author of the first study specifically chronicling exonerated youth: Arresting Development, Rutgers Law Review (2010). Last year, his amicus brief in J.D.B. v. North Carolina was cited favorably by the U.S. Supreme Court in Justice Sotomayor’s majority opinion.