Karen Daniel
Karen Daniel (Photo: Jennifer Linzer)
Senior Staff Attorney Karen Daniel has devoted her legal career to representing the indigent and powerless. As a student at Harvard Law School she served on the Board of Directors of the student-run Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and she also interned with the United Farm Workers Union in California.
Upon her graduation from law school in 1981, Ms. Daniel joined the Office of the State Appellate Defender where she represented hundreds of indigent criminal defendants on appeal and supervised the representation of hundreds more.
During her tenure at the CWC, Ms. Daniel has successfully represented Michael Evans, who was exonerated by DNA testing after serving 27 years in prison; Dana Holland, who was proven innocent of two separate crimes after a decade of incarceration; former death-row inmate Randy Steidl, who was released after 17 years of wrongful imprisonment; Marlon Pendleton, who was exonerated by DNA testing in 2006; Robert Wilson, who served almost a decade in prison for attempted murder before the crime victim recanted her identification of him; and Julie Rea Harper, who was acquitted of murder after a retrial in 2006.
