http://www.newenglandinnocence.org/
NEIP is a member of the international Innocence Network of innocence projects. Each of these projects was modeled after the Innocence Project, which was founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld at the Cardozo School of Law in 1992.
NEIP is unique, however, in that it was the first project in the country coordinated by a law firm. It was founded in 2000 with the goal of identifying and exonerating wrongly convicted individuals through the use of DNA evidence. In 2009 the mission was expanded to consider cases in which scientific testing or other investigative leads could establish a strong likelihood that the individual is factually innocent.
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