innocence projects
Wrongful conviction fighters
Innocence projects are legal organizations that work to exonerate wrongfully convicted people, typically through DNA evidence or investigation of flawed trials.
Most are affiliated with law schools and staffed by students and attorneys who take cases pro bono.
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992, established the model that hundreds of similar organizations now follow worldwide.
- wrongful convictionErroneous guilty verdict
- exonerationOfficial clearing of blame
- DNA evidenceBiological material proving identity
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- life sentenceImprisonment without release
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Pursuing legal charges
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Government's legal action against accused
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