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Criminal

Jul. 12, 2000

DNA Lawyers Tell ABA About Need for Tests

NEW YORK - People in prison who insist they are innocent again and again, year after year, actually may be innocent. That is one lesson from the work done by the Innocence Project, founded by O.J. Simpson's DNA attorneys, Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. They and the project have represented or helped represent 48 convicted rapists and murderers in proving their innocence and winning release from prison.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        NEW YORK - People in prison who insist they are innocent again and again, year after year, actually may be innocent.
        That is one lesson from the work done by the Innocence Project, founded by O.J. Simpson's DNA atto...

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