Representatives Delahunt of Massachusetts and Lahood of Illinois have proposed similar bills in the House of Representatives. Many inmates have received help from the Cardozo School of Law-based Innocence Project, which is a clinical law program designed to help indigent inmates prove their innocence via DNA testing. 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.