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The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, in conjunction with Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.
Christina Allison Swarns is an American lawyer and the executive director of the Innocence Project since September 8, 2020. [1] As of 2012, Swarns had seven convicted murderers taken off of death row, one of whom was exonerated, three had their convictions overturned, and three had their sentences vacated. [2]
Nina Rauh Morrison (born 1970) [1] is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. As part of her work for the Innocence Project, she had been lead or co-counsel in cases that have freed more than 30 wrongly convicted people from prison and death row. [2]
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He established the Idaho Innocence Project which analyzes wrongful conviction claims and assists those who have been falsely charged. [ 3 ] Hampikian is a contributor to scientific journals, newspapers and magazines; including a farcical look at the issue of allowing concealed weapons on college campuses. [ 6 ]
Jeffrey Mark Deskovic (born October 27, 1973) [1] is an American attorney from Peekskill, New York known for freeing the wrongly convicted.In 1990, at the age of 17, he was convicted of raping, beating, and strangling his Peekskill High School classmate, Angela Correa, who was 15 at the time of the murder.
Neufeld was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on July 17, 1950, and grew up in West Hempstead on Long Island. [2] [8] He is Jewish. [9]As a teenager, he was active in both civil rights and antiwar movements and spent time in southeastern Kentucky as a member of the Encampment for Citizenship.
Barry Charles Scheck (born September 19, 1949) is an American attorney and legal scholar. He received national media attention while serving on O. J. Simpson's defense team, collectively dubbed the "Dream Team", helping to win an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case.