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The Illinois Innocence Project, formally known as the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project, was founded in 2001 by Larry Golden, Nancy Ford, and Bill Clutter.The Project is housed in the Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Investigating Innocence founder Bill Clutter (center) with exoneree Ryan Ferguson and David Camm (right) Bill Clutter is an American private investigator, wrongful conviction advocate, and author. He is the co-founder of the Illinois Innocence Project and founder of the national wrongful conviction organization Investigating Innocence. [1]
The Illinois Innocence Project expressed interest in the Slovers, and conducted an investigation into the case. [18] The group circulated a petition to have the Slovers' case re-examined as well as examining evidence to find potential proof that the Slovers did not commit Karyn's murder.
Bill Clutter, co-founder of the Illinois Innocence Project and founder of the national wrongful conviction advocacy organization Investigating Innocence, worked on the Christopher Vaughn case and was featured on a 12-part iHeartRadio podcast about it, called Murder in Illinois. [11] [12]
Illinois Innocence Project; Illinois Manufacturers' Association; Illinois Ornithological Society; Illinois Prairie Community Foundation; Illinois Public Interest ...
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.
The Northwestern University Innocence Project had earlier assisted in the exoneration of four men on death row. More recently, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez were found to have been wrongfully convicted after having been prosecuted by Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan for the 1983 rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. They ...
The Springfield-based Illinois Innocence Project is making claims that three members of a Decatur family convicted of the 1996 murder of a 23-year-old aspiring model are innocent.. The Karyn Hearn ...