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Innocence Project : ウィキペディア英語版 | Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that is committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕 The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. To date, the work of the Innocence Project has led to the freeing of 329 wrongfully convicted people, including 18 who spent time on death row.〔 ==Founding== 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 the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which found that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Facts about Wrongful Convictions >>Mistaken Eyewitness Identifications )〕 The original Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Scheck and Neufeld as part of the Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York City. It became an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 2003 but maintains strong institutional connections with Cardozo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frequently Asked Questions )〕 The current Executive Director of the Innocence Project is Madeline deLone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Innocence Project )〕
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