The project provides free legal assistance to these inmates. The Innocence Project, founded in 1992, has been involved in thirty-six cases where wrongful convictions have been reversed. There are also plans of establishing an Innocence Network in law schools throughout the country. Snitches tell lies. Confessions are coerced or fabricated.
Racism trumps the truth.
Lab tests are rigged. Defense lawyers sleep. There are encouraging results of the recent utilization of DNA testing. Through August 1999, DNA testing has freed sixty-seven innocent people that were in prison and death row. Through March of 2000 alone, there have been three previously-convicted people acquitted in capital cases, in Illinois, Missouri, and Florida.