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Innocence Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal organization that works to exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and other forms of post-conviction relief, as well as advocates for criminal justice reform to prevent future injustice.
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 1992, Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck founded the Innocence Project to assist convicted prisoners who could be proven innocent post-conviction through DNA testing. [19] To date, 343 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 20 who served time on death row.
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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]
The LA Innocence Project, which is independent of the well-known Innocence Project, said in a statement to Scripps News, "LAIP represents Scott Peterson and is investigating his claim of actual ...
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PHOTO: In this screen grab from a video, law enforcement offices stand in the doorway of a deli where an USPS worker was stabbed, on Jan. 2, 2024, in New York.