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We've helped free more than 240 innocent people from prison. Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement. Founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform.
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Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld are co-founders and special counsel at the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In February 2000, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted, written by Peter, Barry, and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Jim Dwyer, was published by ...
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In 1992, Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck founded the Innocence Project to assist convicted prisoners who could be proven innocent post-conviction through DNA testing. To date, 343 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 20 who served time on death row.
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at Cardozo Law, to assist incarcerated people who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. To date, 193 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing through The Innocence Project.
Timeline history of Innocence Project: Realizing the power of DNA testing in ending wrongful convictions, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld founded the Innocence Project as a law clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1992.
Nov 23, 2021 · Photo: David Handschuh. PROFILE. With the Innocence Project, Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck Became the Men Behind a Movement. Through founding the Innocence Project, the pair have...
