The Innocence Project: Is The Offender Guilty

Is the offender innocent or is the offender guilty. For many years innocent people were being accused of heinous crimes passed on faulty eyewitness testimony. With the mass of injustice, two men stepped up and created an organization called The Innocence Project. They examined cases and help exonerate individuals through scientific means.

The Innocence Projected was founded in 1992 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld created the program to assist prisoners who could prove innocents through DNA testing. Scheck and Neufeld were both public defenders in Bronx, New York. They joined each other to help a man named Marion Coakley whom was convicted of robbing and brutally raping a

In 1989, the first DNA exoneration in the United States took place. By the spring of 1992, they founded the Innocence Project. The Innocence Project became an independent non-profit in 2004. It is still closely affiliated with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. The Innocence Project is a national and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future

The each member of The Innocence Project is passionate about bringing about a fair criminal justice system. They want increase awareness of the work to free the innocent and prevent future injustice. Betty Anne Waters a member of the Founders’ Circle is a perfect example of one of those people who works with the Innocents Project to free the innocent. Her connection with the innocents project is much more personal than most. Betty’s brother Kenny was convicted of a murder he did not commit. She put herself through college and law school in order to help prove her brother was innocent. She worked with the Innocence Project to bring about Kenny’s exoneration. After serving 18 years, Kenny was exonerated in