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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]
In 2006, the Innocence Project took Dupree's case and carried out a forensic examination of the case evidence in 2010. He was represented by a legal team that included project co-founder Barry Scheck. [7] Dupree was paroled in July 2010 and married his longtime fiancée Selma Perkins the day after his release. [5]
The Innocence Project is a member of the recently formed Innocence Network, which brings together a number of innocence organizations from across the United States. [ 6 ] As of 2012, 292 defendants previously convicted of serious crimes in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing.
Texas is set to execute Robert Roberson Thursday despite all evidence indicating he was wrongfully convicted for his 2-year-old daughter's death.
Access to DNA testing then and now can vary greatly by degree; post-conviction tests can be difficult to acquire. Organizations such as the Innocence Project and Centurion are particularly concerned with the exoneration of those who have been convicted based on weak or faulty evidence, regardless of DNA evidence. In October 2003, prosecutors of ...
Ensuring that blind justice sees with clarity has been the mission of Pierce Reed and his team at the University of Cincinnati Law School.
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