Innocence Project

16 years ago, Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld started the Innocence Project affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist those wrongfully convicted of a crime through retesting of DNA evidence. They also fight to bring about reforms of the criminal justice system to try and prevent those innocent of a crime from being convicted in the future. For more information on the national Innocence Project please visit www.innocenceproject.org

As of July 7, 2008 there have been 218 people exonerated through the various Innocence Projects at the state and national level. Some states have even gone so far as to put a moratorium on executions because of the number of death row inmates being found innocent of the crime in which they were convicted of through the Innocence Projects.