We are fortunate to have an organization like the Innocence Project. Founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. To date, DNA testing, including 17 who served time on death row has exonerated 226 people in the United States. These people served an average of 12 years in prison before exoneration and release.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Innocence Project
In 2009, thousands of men will be falsely accused of murder, rape, and domestic violence. Many of those unfortunate men will have to spend their entire life savings to prove they are innocent, while the ones that do not have the money for a good lawyer will wind up in prison for a crime they did not commit. Will this happen to you, your son? Men and only men are “guilty until proven innocent ” in today’s society. I believe 4 decades of demonizing men is a factor in wrongful convictions.
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Add people like Bob Macy and Joyce Gilchrist (DA and head chemist for the OKC PD) who undoubtedly sent many innocent men to the death chamber and incarcerated hundreds more. There are many questionable labs, DAs and police tactics. I send as much as I can to the Innocence Project because I would rather 100 guilty go free than condemn one innocent and I know the next innocent person sentenced to prison might be me.
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