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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."
The Chatham County District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), in partnership with the Georgia Innocence Project ... On May 9, 1989, a jury acquitted Williams. 3.
Three years after the original suspect in a nearly 40-year-old double murder was exonerated based on DNA evidence and freed from prison after 20 years, a Georgia man has been arrested and charged ...
After spending more than two decades behind bars for the murder of a couple in Georgia, a man wrongfully jailed for the double slaying walked out of a jail a free man at the age of 59.
The Innocence Project established the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program, a program that helps states defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing. [155] 1984: Darryl Hunt: Murder Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Life in prison 19.5 years Yes Hunt was convicted of the murder of Deborah Sykes on the basis of eyewitness testimony.
Innocence Project. Bluhm Legal Clinic: Center on Wrongful Convictions. Northwestern University School of Law. Sherrer, Hans. "Landmark Study Shows the Unreliability of Capital Trial Verdicts". The Independent Review. Justice: Denied. The Innocents Database; Feldman, Meg (February 7, 2008). "Life After DNA Exoneration". Dallas Observer News
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Pete Williams was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming, where his mother, "Bennie," was a teacher and later a realtor, and his father, Louis, was a dentist. He was one of three children. [ 7 ] Williams graduated from Natrona County High School —coincidentally, the same high school as his fellow Bush administration alumnus Dick Cheney —in 1970 ...