You can hear the sound of a law clinic getting ready to consider a new case, says Koenig at one point, as we listen to the drone of a scanner and muffled, excited chatter.
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Leveson paid tribute to the work of the team at Cardiff Law School, who had worked on the case for nine years.Įpisode 7 of Serial allowed listeners to enter the world of Innocence Projects. His appeal was based on new scientific evidence relating to that residue. Gunshot residue found on George’s coat formed the basis of the prosecution’s case against him.
In 2011, George was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting of 18-year-old Daniel Dale. In December 2014, we finally saw the first ever successful appeal – courtesy of staff and students at Cardiff Law School Innocence Project.īrian Leveson and two other judges quashed Dwaine George’s conviction for murder, saying it was no longer safe.
It is estimated that there are more than 600 students working on at least 70 cases in the UK thought to involve wrongful conviction. Many were originally linked to the Innocence Network UK, which appeared to have a somewhat fraught relationship with its former partners. Some – like the University of Leeds Justice Project – use a different moniker. There are now 27 Innocence Projects in existence in the country. In 2005, Michael Naughton founded the first UK university-based Innocence Project at the University of Bristol. Of these, 33 were under 18 when they were convicted, 28 pleaded guilty to crimes they did not commit and 18 were on death row. They have helped to exonerate more than 300 people through DNA evidence.
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The Innocence Network, an affiliation of pro bono organisations and law school clinics, has 56 US members. But they really took off in the 1990s, due to the advent of new DNA testing methods. Innocence Projects in the US began in the 1980s. The UVA Innocence Project is now asking a court to test a physical evidence recovery kit that was used at the time of the murder, but never tested for DNA. The good case was, of course, staring right at her. During their conversation Enright mentioned that her student had asked: “are you going to find us another good case?”. Koenig had initially called Enright to ask her about a similar case. Led by Professor Deirdre Enright, the UVA Innocence Project is a pro bono clinic where second year law students investigate wrongful convictions. Adnan has always denied his involvement in Hae’s murder. Adnan was sentenced to 30 years in prison, largely due to the evidence of his friend Jay. Adnan and Hae were both 17-year-old high school students in Baltimore County when she was strangled on January, 13, 1999. Serial’s presenter Sarah Koenig has taken listeners on a journey as she explores whether Adnan could have been wrongly convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Quietly, and with little fuss, the University of Virginia Innocence Project has been looking again at the case of Adnan Syed since March 2014. It isn’t until Episode 7 of the certified podcast sensation Serial, that listeners learn about the show’s silent partner.
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