Joey L. Mogul is an attorney who focuses on civil rights cases involving police misconduct, criminal cases brought against individuals engaged in street demonstrations and other forms of First Amendment expression, and capital defense cases. She handles all stages of litigation, from trial preparation through trial, appeal and post-conviction proceedings. She is also an adjunct law professor at Depaul University College of Law teaching at the Civil Rights Clinic and recently published “The Dykier, the Butcher, the Better: the State’s Use of Homophobia and Sexism to Execute Women in the United States” in the New York City Law Review. She has been actively engaged in the litigation and community organizing around the Chicago Police Torture cases, recently presenting these cases to the United Nations Committee Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006. She is one of the attorneys representing the class of 800 individuals wrongfully arrested and detained at an anti-war protest on March 20, 2003. She previously represented Miguel Castillo in post-conviction proceedings overturning his wrongful conviction for a murder he did not commit and obtaining a pardon on the basis of his innocence. She subsequently represented him in his civil wrongful conviction case which settled for $1.2 million.