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We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
Feb 18, 2009 · The Innocence Project has refined how it defines and documents forensic problems as a factor in wrongful convictions that were overturned with DNA testing. We now track cases where unvalidated or improper forensic science contributed to wrongful convictions.
Since 1992, we have helped free or exonerate hundreds of wrongfully convicted people. The cases here are considered closed and reflective of Innocence Project’s exonerated clients only.
Innocence Project, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit legal organization that is committed to exonerating individuals who have been wrongly convicted, through the use of DNA testing and working to reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
Oct 2, 2020 · A wrongful conviction is when a person is convicted of a crime they did not commit. Wrongful convictions are often the result of multiple failures— usually by investigators, witnesses, scientists, and lawyers— that can occur at various stages of the criminal justice process.
Sep 17, 2019 · In this 2018 novel, Roy, a young executive, and Celestial, a rising artist, are a young Southern couple with big dreams until Roy is sentenced to 12 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. This novel uses multiple perspectives to tell the story of a family torn apart by wrongful conviction.
John Galvan spent more than three decades in prison after he, and several others, was wrongly convicted of a 1986 apartment fire in Chicago that killed two brothers. Mr. Galvan’s conviction was based on eyewitness misidentification, faulty arson science, and a false confession.
