The Innocence Project has helped represent many of the 267 persons in the United States who were wrongfully convicted — and later exonerated — through the introduction of DNA evidence in post-conviction proceedings. Founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, it is now an independent nonprofit organization. It has amassed a collection of court records from many of these cases, most since DNA evidence began being introduced into courtrooms in the early 1980s. The group recognized the extraordinary value these documents would have in determining the reasons why wrongful convictions occur — and ways they might be prevented in the future — but had no ready method of accessing or analyzing these documents in any meaningful way.
In 2004, the leaders turned to Winston & Strawn to partner in creating a searchable repository of records. We are an international firm with 1,000 attorneys and an equal number of support staff; we operate in eight U.S. offices and seven abroad. Our efforts produced The Innocence Record, a searchable database of all available court records underlying the wrongful convictions of every person in the U.S. who has ultimately been proven innocent through the use of DNA evidence.
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