OUR MISSION

I am Anthony Williams the Founder and Director of Missouri Prisoner Advocacy Consulting, LLC (MOPAC). What motivated me to create MOPAC was the experience I gained from serving 20 years of a wrongful conviction in the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC). During my incarceration I spent a great deal of time studying criminal and appellate law and I worked as a law clerk in the prison law library at the Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) where I worked for (4) four years assisting inmates with their legal research and pro se filings in state and federal court. With that experience I gained a "unique" understanding of the post-conviction and appellate process. I specialized in state and federal habeas corpus litigation primarily which ultimately lead to my wrongful conviction being overturned by a Cole County Circuit Judge in June of 2014. I was released from the MODOC on July 3, 2014 and was quickly hired at the Bukowsky Law Firm in Columbia, Missouri to offer up my skills to attorney Jennifer Bukowsky and her staff. At the Bukowsky Law Firm I honed my skills learning Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Word Press, and an assortment of administrative skills that helped me become a better professional. For approximately (2) two years I evaluated cases for potential appellate and post-conviction litigation for attorney Bukowsky, and worked on a number of pre-trial matters for the law firm as well. In January of 2016 I decided to found MOPAC, LLC and offer up my knowledge and litigation skills directly to attorney's needing help freeing prisoners claiming innocence as a "legal para-professional". Ultimately, through MOPAC I was able to offer my knowledge and skills directly to indigent inmates facing pre-trial and post-conviction legal matters which has been the most rewarding work I've done since my release. I also worked as an advocate speaking for prisoners' rights and fighting to change laws through the Missouri legislature like expungment, changing the juvenile certification age, ending the death penalty and Life w/o parole for juveniles. Since 2016 I've had the opportunity to work with private attorney's, public defenders, law schools, private investigators, the Midwest Innocence Project (MIP), the Incarcerated Advocacy Network (ICAN), Missouri Faith Voices (MFV), the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and a number of other grass-roots and national organizations fighting for criminal justice reform. On behalf of MOPAC I have fought to give back to prisoners and their family's suffering from wrongful convictions inside of our jails and prisons in Missouri and around the country providing legal "pathways" to freedom for men and women who would otherwise be doomed within our system which has been an honor to me and my family, particularly, my wife Bridget Hollis who has supported me in this mission from the beginning.