Andrew Markquart

Andrew Markquart is a senior attorney at the Hennepin County Attorney's Office. There he leads the Conviction Integrity Unit, which investigates the office's own convictions for plausible claims of wrongful conviction. He was previously a staff attorney at Great North Innocence Project in Minneapolis where he investigated cases of wrongful convictions and represented individuals in connection with post-conviction litigation in state and federal court. Before that, he worked as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York. As a student at Columbia Law School, he co-authored with Professor James Liebman and others an extended law review piece examining the wrongful conviction and execution of Carlos DeLuna that was subsequently released in book form as The Wrong Carlos (2014).