I have a friend who was wrongfully conviction of a crime and received life in prision. He contacted the innocent project and they responded. Will they help him after all of his appeals have been exshausted.
2007-02-12 18:38:23 · 6 answers · asked by Star 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Link below. Good luck with your friend's case.
2007-02-12 18:42:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"the innocence project " was started a few years ago , to relieve victims of wrongful imprisonment in they,re sentancing and subsquent convictions....mostly these are cases of mistaken idenity , but some are also of a scientific nature, as DNA tests have become more reliable, and conclusive...some cases can be over turned , you have no doubt heard of several in recent months ( alone ) in the old dayd i wittness would come forward and swear this is the man/ woman who did this to me, and that was enough to convict... then , it became this is the person who did this to me, and a blood test was taken , if the same match , a conviction was assured....even early DNA tests would point a finger without actually linking the offender... just the probability that the right person was being charged...today these tests are much more sufisticated rendering a conviction of several years ago, in question...the inoccents project seeks to aquire and retest envidence that can free a wrongfully convicted man, resently a man was freed after 23 years in prison, and the right person charged in the crime with in days....but you need to understand, this DNA evidence needs to be viable for comparision, and in in instances, the local DA s, will fight tooth and nail not to have the case over turned to the point of lieing, refusing to turn ove exculitory evedince, or even distoying evedence to avoid the truth, when the onlt truth they will except is that they sent the wrong man to prison....good luck to you and your friend, i hope i,ve offered you soom assistance, and that the innocence project can offer you both some rerief...
2007-02-12 18:59:18 · answer #2 · answered by vanshusband 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They receive a load of requests every year, and they look at evidence available in each case to see where it might take them. In other words, they go for cases where hope exists. I believe they also focus most on death penalty convictions due to the fact that the person may be executed sooner or later.
I think Barry Scheck runs the Project out of NYC. I have not run a search on the organization and I may have his name misspelled.
2007-02-12 18:44:21 · answer #3 · answered by TCSO 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They will look at the case details and determine what took place based on evidence or lack of evidence. They are great, but many things they do takes years because of volume and the court system.
2007-02-12 18:48:20 · answer #4 · answered by Nort 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They got a convicted rapist set free, and he sexually assaulted and murdered a female photographer.
2007-02-12 18:54:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
did your friend say he didn't do it? name; details....are you looking for points or just bored?
2007-02-12 20:25:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋