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6 Apr 2012, 7:13 am by Richard
His liberators included criminal attorney Barry Scheck and the Innocence Project, which helped clear Morton through DNA testing which was unavailable when he was convicted. [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 10:00 pm
I, along with my teammates Colin Finnerty and David Evans, were invited by Barry Scheck to attend the benefit only weeks after we were exonerated in the Duke Lacrosse case. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 9:34 am by Dani Selby
The emergence of DNA technology, which has the ability to provide irrefutable proof of wrongful convictions, inspired Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld to co-found the Innocence Project in 1992. [read post]
9 Sep 2009, 4:02 am
Kent's opinion was not shared by Barry Scheck writing at the Huffington Post, who offered up a column titled "Innocent but Executed. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 8:24 am by Steve Hall
“Cornelius Dupree spent the prime of his life behind bars because of mistaken identification that probably would have been avoided if  the best practices now used in Dallas had been employed,” said Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. [read post]
16 May 2022, 11:40 am by Dani Selby
(Image: Matthew Adams Photography/Innocence Project) Members of the NBA Coaches Association with Innocence Project Co-founders Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld and Executive Director Christina Swarns at the Innocence Project’s 30th Anniversary Gala: A Celebration of Freedom & Justice on May 4, 2022. [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 9:00 am by Barry Scheck
News NY Governor Kathy Hochul Should Sign the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act Into Law New York is just one of just a handful of states that won’t allow people convicted of crimes to obtain post-conviction relief with non-DNA evidence of innocence. … [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 8:29 am by Dan Gauss
  According to panelist Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, DNA evidence is only available in about five percent of cases. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 4:59 am by SHG
  It's not that I don't trust the Innocence Project, despite Barry Scheck's sartorial choices, but to take up the cause by promoting this film was a personal endorsement. [read post]
16 Oct 2010, 4:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reported the New York Times:Under questioning by Barry Scheck, a founder of the Innocence Project, Mr. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 7:43 am by Steve Hall
This is a decision that will ultimately affect every state and federal court in the nation,” said Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 7:38 am
" In 15% of cases involving a wrongful conviction overturned by DNA evidence, an informant or jailhouse snitch testified against the defendant, said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, which seeks to free the wrongfully convicted. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 12:17 am
  The end of this week will mark my return to Cardozo Law School as a faculty member of the ITAP program with Barry Scheck and Ellen Yaroshefsky, and a host of new law students seeking experience in trying cases. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 1:53 pm by Alicia Maule
ABOUT THE INNOCENCE PROJECT The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 7:03 am
The release of these two books has led Mark Barrett, an Oklahoma criminal defense attorney whose work (along with Barry Scheck and a host of other fine Oklahoma defense attorneys) helped exonerate Williamson and Fritz to take up the cause of Fontenot and Ward. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 9:35 am by Steve Hall
Jerry Madden, R-Plano, who served on the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee last session, said he could not see a GOP effort to block Ellis' bills if they are in line with recommendations from the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit, which Judge Barbara Hervey, of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, launched in 2008.The unit includes Hervey, Ellis and reform advocates, including Jim Bethke, director of the Taskforce on Indigent Defense, and Barry Scheck, director of the… [read post]
23 May 2008, 2:36 pm
  Here's an excerpt:Following is a statement from Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project, on a state court ruling late today that Michael Blair's capital murder conviction should be overturned. [read post]
1 May 2009, 7:00 am
This is something that Innocence Project co-founders Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld called for in their 2002 book, Actual Innocence, and in detail here. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 6:51 pm
They plan to bring NY Innocence Project chief Barry Scheck to Texas to give presentations to key law enforcement leaders, and will encourage "best practices," she said, without requiring them.Asked whether the CCA itself might ever require evidence-based lineup procedures, Hervey said that would be difficult because small agencies may not have sufficient resources to implement reforms. [read post]