The Innocence Project Research Paper

They say justice is blind. Or at least they used to. The true role of the judicial system is true justice, and in some cases the system has failed in the past. We do learn, though, and thanks to the latest scientific breakthroughs we now have genomic testing and DNA fingerprinting as widely accepted methods of looking at a crime scene. What was left up to conjecture before can now be verified with great confidence.

In the United States hundreds of individuals have been released from prison, even many from death row after serving time for crimes they did not commit thanks to the nonprofit orginaization called The Innocence Project. Founded in 1996 The Inocent Project uses DNA to exonerate those wrongly convited and incarserated. The Innocence Project is a group of full time lawyers and other staff members who

Tim Masters was 15 years old when Peggy Hettrick's body was found in a field near his home. Masters, while walking to school noticed what he thought was a mannequin laying in the field, he assumed the mannequin was put there as a practical joke, mocking his mother's dealth four years prior. During the investigation Master's father told police about the mannequin. From that point on, Masters was a suspect in Hettrick's murder after police found knives and strange drawings in Master's room, even though there was no evidence linking Masters to Hettrick's murder, and there was no blood found on any of the knives that belonged to Masters. The investigation continued as the years went on, but no solid suspect was ever located. Tim grew up and joined the Navy, in 1992 he told an aquaintance a detail about the murder that had never been released to the public. That brought him right back to the top of the suspects' list, even though he had been told this detail by a friend who had been to the field with her girlscout troop by