In 1992, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld founded the Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law to use DNA to help free people who have been wrongly convicted by the U.S. criminal justice system. Nearly 25 years later, the movement to exonerate innocent people using DNA testing has grown substantially. The Innocence Project has compiled data around these cases and the causes that lead to wrongful conviction in the first place.
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Recently, I’ve run into someone who was wrongfully convicted and had to spend 37 years in prison for someone else’s crime. Due to recent DNA testing he has now been proven not guilty and is a free man.