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Of all the cases taken on by the Innocence Project so far, about 43% of clients were proven innocent, 42% were confirmed guilty, and evidence was inconclusive and not probative in 15% of cases. In about 40% of all DNA exoneration cases, law enforcement officials identified the actual perpetrator based on the same DNA test results that led to an ...
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He was sentenced to life without parole. He was released in 2017 and exonerated in 2018 after the University of Michigan's innocence project took up his case, declaring him the longest-serving innocent man in the United States, [73] although his record has since been broken. [74] In prison Phillips taught himself to paint watercolors.
Syed, 41, had help from the University of Baltimore School of Law's Innocence Project Clinic. Vanessa Potkin, director of special litigation at the Innocence Project in New York, said the Innocent ...
The Innocence Project does not use legal technicalities to challenge convictions; the Project accepts only cases in which newly discovered scientific evidence can potentially prove that a convicted person is factually not guilty. Scheck is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he
Jay-Z’s social justice group Team Roc has filed lawsuit alongside the Midwest Innocence Project against two agencies in KCK. The suit argues the city violated the Kansas Open Records Act, known ...
The LA Innocence Project, which is independent of the well-known Innocence Project, said in a statement to Scripps News, "LAIP represents Scott Peterson and is investigating his claim of actual ...
Since a death penalty conviction automatically sets in motion a series of appeals, the Innocence Project aided Williamson's attorney, Mark Barrett, in exposing several glaring holes in the prosecution's case and the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses. Frank H. Seay, a U.S. District Court judge, ordered a retrial.