The Innocence Project Research Paper

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“The Innocence Project, founded in 1992...exonerates the wrongly convicted” (“About” 1 of 4). In addition to freeing the innocent, the Innocence Project is also trying to reform the Justice System and reduce the number of wrongful convictions. Alongside reforming the Justice System, The Innocence Project is also looking for ways to reduce the number of eyewitness misidentification. “Eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing” (“Eyewitness Misidentification” 2 of 7). According to The Innocence Projects’ website, “Witnesses substantially changed their description of a perpetrator (including key information such as height, weight, and presence of facial hair) after they learned

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