This event was held
February 24, 2026
at
UIS Student Union, Springfield, IL
Lunch & Learn: The Wrongful Conviction of James Kluppelberg
Exoneree James Kluppelberg, a founding member of IIP's police training Exoneree Speakers Bureau, shared his story of being wrongfully convicted of murder for the deaths of a woman and five children in a Chicago apartment building fire. James spent 25 years wrongfully imprisoned until an avalanche of new evidence made clear his innocence.




