Ken Lawson received his J.D., from the University of Cincinnati College of Law and his B.A. from Wittenberg University. Ken lives in Hawai‘i and is the Co-Director of the Hawai‘i Innocence Project, the Beyond Guilt Legal Clinic Director, and a tenured Faculty member at the William S. Richardson Law School, where he teaches Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility, and Evidence. He had a successful practice in Cincinnati until his license to practice law was revoked because of misconduct while addicted to prescription painkillers. He pled guilty to the felony of obtaining controlled substances by fraudulent means and was sentenced to 24 months in prison, followed by a year of supervised release.