After submissions by researchers at Bristol University's Innocence Project, appeal judges will hear the case.
Thank goodness we have groups like the Innocence Project and the Institute for Justice.
As Conrad notes, the Innocence Project has already cleared hundreds of individuals based on DNA testing alone.
The case was heard again by appeal court judges following submissions by researchers at Bristol University's Innocence Project.
He was the 18th capital inmate freed after subsequent DNA testing proved their innocence, according to the New York-based Innocence Project.
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The Innocence Project, a national group dedicated to freeing the wrongfully convicted, has handled 258 cases of individuals exonerated because of DNA evidence.
According to the Innocence Project, a legal advocacy group, about 75% of false convictions that are later overturned are based on faulty eyewitness testimony.
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Nearly two years later, the Innocence Project commissioned Lentini and three other top fire investigators to conduct an independent review of the arson evidence in the Willingham case.
Barry Scheck, a co-founder of the Innocence Project, which has used DNA testing to exonerate prisoners, estimates that about eighty per cent of felonies do not involve biological evidence.
According to the California Innocence Project, the woman later admitted that Banks had not kidnapped or raped her during a consensual encounter at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where Banks was a middle linebacker with a scholarship offer from the University of Southern California.
Those fighting to free Puracal include the director of the California Innocence Project, the human-rights attorney who helped win freedom for Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and an ex-FBI agent who was one of the early champions of Amanda Knox's innocence.
"Banks was faced with an impossible decision at the time -- either fight the charges and risk spending 41 years to life in prison, or take a plea deal and spend a little over five years of actual prison confinement, " the California Innocence Project says on its website.
Within the project, two rounds of public debates on observing ethical principles, the rights of privacy and presumption of innocence were held in Chisinau.
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