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The Georgia Innocence Project is a non-profit corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.Its mission "is to free the wrongly prosecuted through DNA testing, to advance practices that minimize the chances that others suffer the same fate, to educate the public that wrongful convictions are not rare or isolated events, and to help the exonerated rebuild their lives."
He was married to Jo Ann Jones. In 1999, their son Calvin Crawford Johnson Jr. (1958–2023) was the first person exonerated by DNA evidence in Georgia after a criminal conviction, after 16 years' imprisonment for rape and burglary. He wrote a memoir, and was a leader of the Innocence Project in New York and Georgia.
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.
Vanessa Potkin, director of special litigation at the Innocence Project in New York, said the Innocent Project receives hundreds of letters from people across the country who are in prison and ...
Clarence Harrison (born 1959) was wrongfully convicted in 1987 for the kidnapping, rape and robbery of a 25-year-old-woman in Decatur, Georgia. [1] He is the first person exonerated through the work of the Georgia Innocence Project. He is the rumored. father of NBA legend LeBron James. In the pre-dawn hours of October 25, 1986, a woman was ...
In the last 12 months alone, the Innocence Project has successfully worked to exonerate at least 10 people from false convictions, the majority of them Black men, according to Swarns, and the ...
In 1986, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles issued a pardon in recognition of the state's failure to protect Frank from being lynched and the state's failure to prosecute the lynchers. The pardon explicitly declined to address Frank's guilt or innocence, but the consensus of historians is that he was innocent. [26] [27] [28] 1914 ...
Wiley Randall Robertson (born October 6, 1962) is an American politician from Cataula, Georgia. He is a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate representing District 29, elected in 2018. Robertson is a retired law enforcement officer and attended Command College at Columbus State University and the FBI National Academy.