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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.
Area code Year Current region 212: 1947 New York City: Manhattan only; component of 212/332/646 and 917 overlays 315: 1947 Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; component of 315/680 overlay 329: 2023: Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 332: 2017
A southern Illinois man who spent over three decades behind bars for a murder evidence proves he did not commit was freed last week.
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]
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]
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In 2001, Clutter co-founded the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Clutter co-taught the university's first class on wrongful convictions. [ 6 ] He co-wrote the Bloodworth Grant the awarded $687 thousand to establish a post-conviction program in Illinois to prove actual innocence.
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