Megan Baca of the California Innocence Advocates (Cal-IA) and her team partnered with CWSL and IJC to continue running the clinic until the newly hired executive director could arrive in July 2024.

In July 2024, Amy Kimpel began as the executive director of IJC and continues to partner with Baca's team at Cal-IA.

[2] Daniel Larsen was exonerated in 2010 yet remained incarcerated until March 19, 2013 because the California Attorney General, Kamala Harris, continued to appeal.

Despite lack of evidence, Puracal was arrested November 2010 in San Juan del Sur and convicted of money-laundering, drug charges, and organized crime in August 2011.

[7] The California Innocence Project (now IJC) helped bring Puracal's case before a three-judge appellate panel in August 2012.

Following a rally attended by more than 100 supporters, attorneys from the California Innocence Project met with a staff delegation from the office of Governor Jerry Brown to plead for clemency for The California 12, and to call attention to wrongful convictions and contributing causes, such as flawed eyewitness identification and faulty science.