Innocence Project, Inc. is a 501 nonprofit legal organization that uses DNA testing and other forms of post-conviction relief to exonerate and free prisoners who they believe have been wrongly convict
Left to right: journalist Jim Dwyer, founders Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck
Peter J. Neufeld is an American attorney. He is best known as the co-founder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, and for his role on the defense team of O. J. Simpson in his murder trial.
Innocence Project
…that in the United States between 1% and 10% of all prisoners are innocent. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who gained national attention in the mid-1990s as part of the "Dream Team" of lawyers who formed part of the defense in the O. J. Simpson murder case…