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The Innocence Project is a legal clinic at [[Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law|Benjamin Cardozo Law School]]. It was founded in 1992, by lawyers [[Barry C. Scheck]] and Peter J. Neufeld, to represent prisoners who could be proved, by [[DNA]] testing, innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted and for which they were serving time. Of the first 194 prisoners exonerated by the Project, 14 had been on death row, sentenced to be executed, and the average length of time | The Innocence Project is a legal clinic at [[Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law|Benjamin Cardozo Law School]]. It was founded in 1992, by lawyers [[Barry C. Scheck]] and Peter J. Neufeld, to represent prisoners who could be proved, by [[DNA]] testing, innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted and for which they were serving time. Of the first 194 prisoners exonerated by the Project, 14 had been on death row, sentenced to be executed, and the average length of time the 194 had been wrongly incarcerated was 12 years. | ||
Revision as of 20:07, 20 February 2007
The Innocence Project is a legal clinic at Benjamin Cardozo Law School. It was founded in 1992, by lawyers Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld, to represent prisoners who could be proved, by DNA testing, innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted and for which they were serving time. Of the first 194 prisoners exonerated by the Project, 14 had been on death row, sentenced to be executed, and the average length of time the 194 had been wrongly incarcerated was 12 years.
External links
- Webpage @ innocenceproject.org