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As of 2021, the Innocence Project has helped to successfully overturn over 300 convictions through DNA-based exonerations. [12] [13] In 2021, Innocence Project received the biennial Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty by Cato Institute, awarded in recognition and gratitude for its work to ensure liberty and justice for all. [14]
As DNA testing grew more sophisticated, every state adopted statutes or rules allowing newly discovered DNA results to form the basis of a challenge to a conviction on grounds of "actual innocence". The scope and breadth of an inmate's ability to bring a DNA-based claim of actual innocence varies greatly from state to state.
During the high-profile case of Amanda Knox, on May 23, 2011, Hampikian announced that, based on its independent investigation and review, DNA samples taken at the crime scene all pointed to African drifter Rudy Guede and excluded Knox and Sollecito. [9] Upon reexamination of the DNA, he concluded that the evidence is unreliable and ...
In 2019, Farmer granted Brunner's request to re-test the DNA in response to a request from the Ohio Innocence Project, which took up his case in 2018. Ohio Innocence Project helps exonerate 40 Ohioans
He helped gain support for the Innocence Protection Act (IPA) of 2001, later included in the omnibus Justice for All Act of 2004. Among other federal funding initiatives, the IPA established the "Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program", intended to help states defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing. [9]
Scheck presenting Actual Innocence with co-authors Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer. Scheck co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 with Peter Neufeld, also his co-counsel on the O. J. Simpson defense team. The Project is dedicated to the utilization of DNA evidence as a means to exculpate individuals of crimes for which they were wrongfully convicted.
In a petition seeking to exonerate Hemme, the New York-based Innocence Project said the only evidence tying her to the 1980 killing of Patricia Jeschke were her wildly inaccurate statements ...
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 ...