Everything we do here has to do with preventing and fighting wrongful convictions. But how much do you really know about wrongful convictions and how they happen?
Then-teenagers Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana arrested by a New York City detective as suspects in the infamous Central Park jogger case of 1989. (AP Photo/David Burns)
From the process of DNA exoneration to the specific legislation that can address eyewitness misidentification or misapplication of forensic science, there’s more to wrongful conviction than most people know. About how many people convicted of crimes in the United States were wrongfully convicted? And how many states provide compensation to exonerated people for time spent in prison?
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Started in 1992 as a legal clinic at Cardozo School of Law, the Innocence Project is now an independent nonprofit, affiliated with Cardozo, that exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. www.innocenceproject.org
