Seven innocent clients — Archie Williams, Clemente Aguirre, Chris Tapp, Huwe Burton, Belynda Goff, Steven Mark Chaney, and Stanley Mozee — were freed this year after a combined 176 years of wrongful conviction.
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
