I take great pride in the fact that we have a whole movement of people that are working on these cases, obviously, to get innocent people out of prison, and identify those who really committed the crime. But most importantly, it is a movement of criminal justice reform. And that we have made a big difference, I hope, in the system. We have prosecutors forming what we call “conviction integrity” units to try to look at miscarriages of justice and work cooperatively with defense lawyers to change the results. We are really trying to make some fundamental changes in the way the criminal justice system operates.
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Barry Scheck
Defence lawyer; co-founder of the Innocence Project
United States · b. 1945
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Law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law who co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 with Peter Neufeld, using DNA evidence to overturn wrongful convictions.
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