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	Clinical: Innocence Project - Thomas M. Cooley Law School
		Each term the project accepts 6-10 especially qualified students to work with faculty experienced in criminal and post-conviction law to review and evaluate post-conviction cases for strong evidence of factual innocence and prepare appropriate cases for court action.
		As a case is selected for legal action, the project prepares pleadings for court filing and a student is assigned to assist a participating attorney.
		The Innocence Project meets as a class for two hours a week; in addition, students meet with their supervisors weekly to review cases.
	www.cooley.edu /clinics/innocence.htm (697 words)

	Wisconsin Innocence Project - University of Wisconsin Law School
		The Wisconsin Innocence Project is a project in the Frank J. Remington Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
		The Project does not take cases in which a person is only claiming that his or her rights were violated--there must be a possibility of developing evidence that can actually prove innocence.
		The Project will consider cases from outside this region only if DNA evidence is available that can be used to prove innocence, or if there are similarly compelling and exceptional circumstances, AND if there is not innocence project available to provide assistance in the inmate's state.
	www.law.wisc.edu /fjr/innocence (895 words)

	Perspective - 27/05/2003: Lynne Weathered
		Innocence Projects, which started in the United States about 10 years ago, have been the fundamental resource for the investigation and exoneration of many of these innocent but convicted persons, in both DNA and non-DNA cases.
		Innocence Projects come in various forms but usually provide university based, student resourced, academically supervised and lawyer instructed investigations into claims of innocence, with the goal of releasing innocent persons from incarceration.
		The Project has received over 200 applications for assistance, has over 100 active files and is intensely investigating three convictions for murder, which were all based extensively on circumstantial evidence.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/perspective/stories/s865590.htm (707 words)

	NATIONAL 'INNOCENCE PROJECT' EARNS ATOR AWARD FROM UH LAW CENTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"The Innocence Project is a vital part of the legal education process and the legal community, providing a comprehensive review of convictions in our country's justice system to make certain those wrongfully convicted inmates on death row have received every chance to prove their innocence," Rapoport said.
		The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld, is a non-profit legal clinic created to assist prisoners claiming innocence in cases where DNA testing of biological evidence could lead to their exoneration.
		Innocence Project members formulate and draft model legislation to address the causes and consequences of wrongful convictions, including federal and state statutes authorizing post-conviction DNA testing to prove innocence and reparation statutes to compensate the wrongfully convicted.
	www.uh.edu /admin/media/nr/2002/052002/innocenceaward.html (641 words)

	UC Law Students Gain Experience Through Ohio Launch Of Innocence Project
		Work through the Innocence Project nationally has resulted in freedom for more than 130 wrongfully convicted inmates, some of whom were on death row in their respective states.
		The standard for the Ohio Innocence Project is high -- unlike the role of a traditional criminal defense attorney who must advocate on behalf of his client regardless of guilt or innocence, the Ohio Innocence Project maintains an interest in a case only so long as a credible claim of innocence remains viable.
		The mission of the Ohio Innocence Project is not only to identify Ohio prisoners who might be innocent and obtain their release, but also to provide practical legal experience for law students that cannot be matched in the classroom or in most legal jobs available to law students.
	www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=847 (543 words)

	Mission Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Project goals are: 1) exoneration of innocent persons convicted of felony crimes in downstate Illinois, and 2) reform of the criminal justice system in Illinois and the nation through the education of students, citizens, and policy-makers about problems, causes, and possible reforms of a criminal justice system that results in conviction of the innocent.
		The Project concentrates its efforts primarily on non-capital cases and on inmates, who without the assistance of the Project, are likely to remain wrongfully incarcerated for life or a substantial number of years.
		With a university affiliation, the Project involves students, who are enrolled in classes or internships as a part of their undergraduate or graduate course of study at the University of Illinois at Springfield, in the investigation of actual innocence cases.
	cspl.uis.edu /ILAPS/DownstateInnocenceProject (275 words)

	The Innocence Project - About Us
		The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992.
		The project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
		We are a founding member of The Innocence Network, a group of law schools, journalism schools and public defender offices across the country that assists inmates trying to prove their innocence whether or not the cases involve biological evidence which can be subjected to DNA testing.
	www.innocenceproject.org /about/index.php (923 words)

	Innocence Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Innocence Project refers to a number of non-profit legal clinics in the United States.
		The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a landmark study by the United States Department of Justice and the United States Senate, in conjunction with Columbia Law School.
		Ken Wyniemko, one of the defendants exonerated by the Innocence Project
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Innocence_Project (241 words)

	CNN.com - Innocence Project credited with expanding awareness of DNA testing in law enforcement - December 22, 2000
		Smith said the Innocence Project "has been a major voice" that has called to the attention of the public, prosecutors, judges and others that DNA is a vital tool to be used in the pursuit of criminal justice.
		While the Innocence Project currently focuses on post-conviction DNA testing, the group's bigger goal is "nothing less than the complete overhaul of the criminal justice system with a new awareness of how to make it more reliable," Neufeld said.
		The Innocence Project is handling 200 cases where the inmates may be innocent and is reviewing an additional 1,000 cases, according to the project's World Wide Web site.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/LAW/12/22/innocence.project.crim (1381 words)

	So You Want to Start an Innocent Project
		Many of these wrongly convicted individuals were released through the efforts of non-profit innocence projects organized for the purpose of investigating and litigating post-conviction claims of actual innocence.
		Innocence projects can be organized as non-profit corporations dependent upon tax deductible donations or as programs within larger, sponsoring organizations.
		The Cardozo Innocence Project at Yeshiva University in New York City, the Remington Center Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin, and the Northwestern Innocence Project at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington are examples of programs within law schools that are sponsoring organizations.
	www.truthinjustice.org /ipstartup.htm (974 words)

	Ohio's Innocence Project takes first cases
		Bennett's is the first case for the Ohio Innocence Project, launched at the University of Cincinnati's College of Law in May.
		All are modeled after the original Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
		"The Innocence Project is necessary in Ohio," said William R. Gallagher, a Cincinnati defense attorney and the project's legal adviser.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/09/18/loc_innocenceproject18.html (899 words)

	New England Innocence Project
		Miller was represented by the New York Innocence Project and Nona Walker.
		Kenneth Waters was represented by the New York Innocence Project and NEIP attorneys.
		Powell maintained his innocence throughout his incarceration, but it was not until the Committee for Public Counsel Services appointed attorneys Julie Boyden and Steve Hrones to his case that Powell was able to obtain DNA testing of semen found in the rape victim.
	www.newenglandinnocence.org /site/content/recent_exonerations.php (1380 words)

	IPMN.org - Innocence Project of Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Innocence Project of Minnesota (IPMN) works to raise public awareness about the prevalence and causes of wrongful conviction.
		Innocence projects play an important role in training the next generation of lawyers to avoid conviction of the innocent.
		Students are also required to analyze inmates’ requests for assistance from the IPMN with an emphasis on the appropriateness of referring the case onto the “Innocence Clinic.” The course includes digital multimedia curriculum on CDs with video presentations by the nation's top experts on issues of innocence.
	www.ipmn.org /educationAndOutreach.cfm (428 words)

	Production Will Benefit Ohio Innocence Project
		Innocence Projects throughout the country allow law students, under the supervision of professors, to investigate the cases of inmates convicted of serious crimes who have steadfastly maintained their innocence.
		The Ohio Innocence Project is under the supervision of UC law professor and Faculty Director Mark Godsey, a former federal prosecutor, and Administrative Director John Cranley, a Cincinnati City Councilman.
		The Ohio Innocence Project is funded entirely through private donations and is associated with the Center for Law and Justice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
	www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=1256 (399 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Innocence Project fights wrongful convictions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Founded in 1997, the Innocence Project Northwest works on behalf of indigent clients to overturn wrongful guilty verdicts in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho or Montana.
		The Innocence Project Northwest does not take on death-penalty cases ("There are good legal experts on that in the state, and we're not experts").
		Innocence Project Northwest will be hosting several free activities on the UW campus in conjunction with the Seattle run of "The Exonerated," including panel discussions and a screening of the documentary film, "Life After Death Row," which features interviews with some of the real-life characters in the play.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001834205_innocence11.html (281 words)

	The Innocence Project, printer friendly version
		Williamson was exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project, which facilitates the use of DNA testing for prisoners who claim to be innocent.
		The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld at the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University in New York City.
		At that point, Fritz, Williamson, and the students at the Innocence Project came up against one of the most deep-seated and disturbing problems of U.S. jurisprudence: that prisoners have no right to prove their innocence—by DNA or any other means.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Apr2004/davidpr0404.html (1653 words)

	UW's Innocence Project Northwest spurs national effort to free the wrongly imprisoned
		UW law students in the project have since spent more than 1,500 hours on these cases and contributed to the release of seven people wrongly imprisoned in the discredited Wenatchee sex-ring investigation.
		Innocence Project Northwest is among the best examples of this kind of collaboration, according to a report presented at the recent annual meeting of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
		The project accepts a case only if the prisoner claims to have had no involvement in the crime, can't afford his own attorney and is serving a substantial sentence.
	www.washington.edu /newsroom/news/2000archive/04-00archive/k041100a.html (487 words)

	The Creightonian Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Innocence Project is nationwide organization founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, graduates of the Benjamin N. Cordozo School of Law in New York.
		The Iowa/Nebraska Innocence Project was established two months ago and serves as a branch of the national headquarters in New York.
		Through a group of lawyers, interns and volunteers, the project has been the leader in the field of reversing wrongful convictions for inmates who have exhausted their appeals and means to receive a new trial.
	press.creighton.edu /111204/news4.html (384 words)

	Cooley Innocence Project Update
		Project director Norm Fell indicates that the backlog of inquiries has been tackled in recent weeks and initial responses have been sent out to all potential clients.
		Once it became known that an Innocence Project was being established in Michigan, inquiries began pouring in before staff was in place.
		Nationally, 4 out of 10 cases where DNA is tested by Innocence Projects result in the exoneration of an individual who has been convicted and incarcerated.
	www.sado.org /cdn/cooley0601.htm (775 words)

	Cardozo Law Innocence Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Innocence Project provides pro bono legal assistance to inmates who are challenging their convictions based on DNA testing of evidence, though clients must obtain finding for testing.
		With the establishment of clinics in other schools, the Innocence Project will be able to act as a conduit and pass these cases onto other schools equipped to deal with them.
		Though DNA testing can mean scientific and irrefutable proof of innocence, there is often resistance on the part of police and prosecutors to reopening cases, whether it be for political reasons or for the sake of finality of conviction.
	www.yu.edu /csl/law/innoprj.html (719 words)

	Innocence Project stalled - News
		Mark Godsey and John Cranley serve as directors for the Ohio Innocence Project based at UC College of Law.
		"It ignores all the evidence." The Ohio Innocence Project is based in the University of Cincinnati College of Law as part of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice.
		The project seeks to exonerate wrongfully convicted Ohio inmates.
	www.newsrecord.org /media/paper693/news/2004/11/15/News/Innocence.Project.Stalled-804290.shtml (735 words)

	Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project: American University
		The Innocence Commission for Virginia (ICVA), a joint project of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, the Administration Justice Program at George Mason University, and the Constitution Project, has issued a report examining eleven exonerations in Virginia and recommending reforms for preventing future wrongful convictions.
		The ICVA is only the second innocence commission in the United States and the one of the first groups to study a state’s exoneration cases.
		The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project is housed at American University's Washington College of Law.
	www.wcl.american.edu /innocenceproject (363 words)

	Cooley Launches Innocence Project in Michigan
		The purpose of the Innocence Project is to identify, provide legal assistance to, and secure the release of those persons who are imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
		Formation of the Michigan project was spurred by Lansing attorney F. Martin Tieber, an adjunct professor at Cooley and long-time director of the Lansing Office of the Michigan State Appellate Defender.
		This Innocence Project does not have a political agenda, is non-partisan, and is neither liberal nor conservatively based, explained Fell.
	www.sado.org /cdn/cooley.htm (832 words)

	Innocence Project - Griffith Law School
		The Griffith University Innocence Project will take on cases where initial investigations support inmates' assertions that they have been wrongfully convicted and where innocence may be established through the use of DNA technology or other fresh evidence.
		Griffith University Innocence Project is committed to freeing innocent persons who have been wrongfully convicted.
		The Griffith University Innocence Project wishes to acknowledge the generous sponsorship of the Queensland Law Society Grants Committee who have provided a grant representing funding for the Innocence Project for 2003 and 2004.
	www.gu.edu.au /school/law/innocence/content.html (201 words)

	IPNW: Other Innocence Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In an effort to connect prisoners with an innocence project in their state, IPNW has compiled a list of projects currently accepting cases.
		This list is organized by state as most innocence projects work most efficiently in their local jurisdiction.
		Not every state is served by a specific innocence project, but The Innocence Project at the Cardozo School of Law in New York City may consider cases from any state.
	www.law.washington.edu /ipnw/resources.shtml (189 words)

	Daily Business Review:
		The Florida Innocence Project outpost at Nova Southeastern University law school has stopped accepting new cases because it doesn’t have the resources to handle the hundreds of requests for help from felons who claim they were wrongfully convicted.
		Just one Florida Innocence Project office in Tallahassee will be left to handle an estimated 700 requests by prisoners for DNA testing to determine whether they were wrongfully convicted.
		The Innocence Project is a nationwide nonprofit group, with offices in nearly every state, that is headed by prominent criminal defense attorney Barry Scheck.
	www.dailybusinessreview.com /Web_Public_Stories/Innocence_Project.html (1190 words)

	Innocence Project Uses DNA to Exonerate Convicted Felons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So far, the Innocence Project has managed to exonerate 138 men in 30 states and the District of Columbia.
		Similar projects have been launched in Canada, England and Australia, and Peter Neufeld says there may soon be Innocence Projects in Turkey, India, France and Italy.
		To that end, he, the law students who work for him, and many of the men who've been exonerated by the Innocence Project are pushing for judicial reform.
	www.voanews.com /article.cfm?objectID=5A9F3D49-1E77-41B9-81A99F2C96583113 (828 words)

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