A network of men and women working in the legal system have created something called “The Innocence Project” which to date has exonerated 364 innocent people serving sentences for violent crimes with punishments ranging from death to life without parole.
How unregulated jailhouse informant testimony is harming justice The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. As the pace of DNA exonerations has grown across the country in recent […]