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The book is part-memoir in which Godsey describes his personal journey from being a "hard-nosed prosecutor" to the co-founder of the Ohio Innocence Project. [2]: 599 Godsey began teaching law in 2001, and was assigned to serve as the faculty supervisor for the Kentucky Innocence Project. He did not believe that innocent people were in prison ...
Ensuring that blind justice sees with clarity has been the mission of Pierce Reed and his team at the University of Cincinnati Law School. The Ohio Innocence Project works to change lives of ...
Ohio Innocence Project helps exonerate 40 Ohioans. Brunner is one of 40 Ohioans who have been exonerated through the efforts of the Ohio Innocence Project, based at the University of Cincinnati ...
During 2011, Clarence and his new wife, Molly, established the Clarence Elkins Scholarship at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. This scholarship provides $5,000 annually to the Ohio Innocence Project housed at UC Law School, and includes a scholarship to two students in the Ohio Innocence Project each year. [31]
Blind Injustice is an opera based on the stories of six people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes in Ohio, and who eventually had their convictions overturned through the work of the Ohio Innocence Project. [1] [2] The opera was commissioned by the Cincinnati Opera; it was written by librettist David Cote and composer Scott Davenport ...
However, the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law began looking into the case and learned the roommate had initially identified a different man – a fact police ...
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]
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.