Gross is best known for his work in false convictions and exonerations, notably the Larry Griffin death penalty case.
[1] Samuel Gross has been leading a team of lawyers in statistics and in law, which determined the likely number of unjust convictions of prisoners on death row.
The research was peer reviewed with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which later published it.
[2] Before coming to Michigan Law, Gross served as an attorney for the United Farm Workers Union in California and the Wounded Knee Legal Defense Committee in Nebraska and South Dakota.
[3] Gross argued Lockhart v. McCree before the United States Supreme Court.