Press Release Archives
5/31/2007 - NY Assembly Reforms on DNA and Criminal Justice Will Address and Prevent Wrongful Convictions, Innocence Project Says
5/15/2007 - After 19 Years in Prison for One of the Most Heinous Crimes in NJ History, Byron Halsey Is Proven Innocent through DNA
5/11/2007 - After 21 Years in Prison - including 16 on Death Row - Curtis McCarty is Exonerated Based on DNA Evidence
5/3/2007 - Sweeping State Legislative Reform Package To Address Wrongful Convictions Introduced in New York
4/23/2007 - In 200th DNA Exoneration Nationwide, Jerry Miller in Chicago Is Proven Innocent 25 Years After Wrongful Conviction
4/20/2007 - Andrew Gossett Is Officially Exonerated by DNA in Dallas County; Full Texas Senate Will Debate Innocence Commission Bill Monday
4/9/2007 - Cleared by DNA 25 Years after Wrongful Conviction in Dallas, James Giles To Join Other Exonerees and Innocence Project at Legislative Hearing on Statewide Reform Tuesday in Austin
3/29/2007 - DNA Proves Antonio Beaver’s Innocence in St. Louis Carjacking, 10 Years After Conviction Based on Victim’s Misidentification
3/9/2007 - James Waller Exonerated through Pardon from Governor; One of 13 Dallas Men Proven Innocent By DNA Testing
3/5/2007 - Proven Innocent by DNA, Roy Brown Is Fully Exonerated
2/20/2007 - Bill to Enhance Public Safety by Improving Accuracy of Eyewitness Identifications Set for West Virginia Senate Committee Hearing Wednesday
1/29/2007 - DNA Proves a Notorious Analyst Engaged in Fraud and Misconduct Leading to Two More Wrongful Convictions, Innocence Project Says
1/23/2007 - Proven Innocent by DNA - and Having Solved the Crime from His Prison Cell - Roy Brown Is Set to Be Released Today
1/23/2007 - Vermont Legislature to Consider Bills to Grant Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Improve Accuracy of Criminal Justice System
1/16/2007 - 12th Dallas County Man in Five Years Is Proven Innocent Through DNA Evidence
12/14/2006 - Ten Years After Chad Heins Was Wrongly Convicted of Murder, Florida Judge Vacates Conviction, Citing New DNA Evidence
12/12/2006 - Assemblyman Gianaris, Innocence Project and Victims of Wrongful Convictions Call for Passage of Innocence Commission
10/31/2006 - Tenth Dallas County Man in Just Five Years Is Proven Innocent Through DNA Evidence; Larry Fuller Set To Be Released Today
10/6/2006 - DNA Proves Scott Fappiano’s Innocence 21 Years After He Was Wrongly Convicted of Rape in Brooklyn
9/20/2006 - DNA Proves Jeffrey Deskovic’s Innocence 16 Years After He Was Wrongly Convicted as a Teenager
7/26/2006 - Study of Year-Long Pilot Project Shows that Key Eyewitness Identification Reforms Are Effective
6/26/2006 - Charges Dropped in Larry Peterson Case After Nearly a Year of Legal Limbo
6/21/2006 - Innocence Project: Legislative Agreement Makes State DNA Database System Bigger, not Better
6/12/2006 - U.S. Supreme Court Reopens Death Row Case Based on DNA Evidence
6/6/2006 - 21 Years After Wrongful Conviction - And After 12 Years Fighting for Access to Evidence - DNA Proves Alan Newton’s Innocence
5/23/2006 - 23 Years After Conviction Based on Eyewitness Misidentification, DNA Proves Orlando Boquete’s Innocence
5/16/2006 - DNA Evidence Exonerates Douglas Warney after a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Did Not Commit
5/2/2006 - Innocence Project Submits Two Arson Cases to Texas Commission and Requests System-Wide Review
5/1/2006 - Innocence Project Says Supreme Court Ruling Is a “Big Victory” for Defendants Trying To Prove Their Innocence and Challenge Flawed Forensic Evidence
1/12/2006 - DNA Results in Coleman Case Finally Reveal the Truth in One Case — but Don’t Answer Serious Doubts about the Fairness of the Criminal Justice System, Innocence Project Says
12/8/2005 - Robert Clark Exonerated by DNA Evidence After 24 Years in Prison
5/6/2005 - Historic Audit of Virginia Crime Lab Errors in Earl Washington Jr.’s Capital Case
