The Innocence Project

According to it's website, the "Innocence Project" has what goal?

• exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice

• free every single person locked up in prison because humans should not be kept in cages

• share the stories of all people wrongly convicted due shed light on the mistakes of the U.S. judicial system

• create films to make money to buy lawyers to free wrongly convicted people

In what year was the Innocence Project founded?

• 1972

• 1982

• 1992

• 2002

While at Cardozo Law School, the Innocence Project was founded by which two people?

• Paul McCartney and John Lennon

• Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck

• Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck

• Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent

DNA exonerations indicate that which race is more likely to be wrongfully convicted?

• Native Americans

• Asian Americans

• African Americans

• Caucasian Americans

What primary type of forensic testing does the Innocence Project use to exonerate wrongly convicted people?

• DNA

• Fingerprint

• Lie detector

• Drug

Which of the following is NOT part of the Innocence Project's mission?

• exonerate the innocent who have been wrongly convicted

• improve case law through targeted legal work

• reform laws & implement policies that prevent wrongful conviction

• arrest & convict as many people as possible

Exonerations teach us the most common cause of wrongful conviction are 52% due to bad forensic science & 63% because of what?

• eyewitness misidentification

• false confessions

• lying informants

• paperwork filed incorrectly

A High School student would probably know that this is the number of years served in jail before exoneration.

• 1

• 16

• 42

• 100