Since 1992, over 500 wrongly convicted people have walked out of prison, fully exonerated for crimes they did not commit. Every one of those people was represented by an attorney, most likely affiliated with a dedicated innocence project.
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project is the only statewide organization in Pennsylvania dedicated to exonerating the convicted innocent by identifying, investigating, and litigating cases where the wrong person was convicted of a crime he did not commit. When it opened just a year ago, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project became the 45th project nationwide focusing on wrongful convictions. In one year, the project has processed requests from over 1600 inmates, trained at least 225 attorneys and 200 law students, and is investigating 32 plausible wrongful conviction claims. The bulk of this work has been done by our dedicated attorney volunteers who come from some of the largest and smallest firms in the area.
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