Jim Cousins is a graduate of Beloit College and Fordham Law School. He spent the majority of his career as a trial and appellate lawyer in state and federal courts. He also served as an adjunct professor at Pace Law School. His path to Centurion began in 1999, when he volunteered as counsel on a Connecticut case that ended with the exoneration of Richard Lapointe. That experience set him on a course he hasn’t left since, and in 2015 he joined Centurion full time as a staff attorney. Jim has represented innocent clients at every stage of state and federal post-conviction proceedings and appeals, securing freedom for men and women who had spent decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit. Among his most significant victories is Henning v. Commissioner of Correction, 334 Conn. 1 (2019), in which the Connecticut Supreme Court unanimously vacated Shawn Henning’s murder conviction, freeing him after 30 years of wrongful incarceration.
seeking freedom for the innocent in prison
