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Looking ahead
via the Innocence Project The Innocence Project and the Mississippi Innocence Project are reviewing hundreds of cases for potential forensic fraud and wrongful conviction, and the Jackson Clarion-Ledger profiled two death row cases in Forrest County involving testimony by discredited medical examiner Steven Hayne and forensic dentist Michael West...

Scheck speaks, raises funds for Innocence Project
Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck said in a speech last night that West Virginia ? and dozens of other states ? were ready for bipartisan criminal justice reforms to prevent future wrongful convictions...

Proving error in Mississippi
The Innocence Project today  launched the next salvo in the war to clear those that Medical Examiner Steven Hayne may have wrongfully convicted, including those he helped in sending to death row...

Mississippi Innocence Project to WIn its First Exoneration
It looks to be a busy year for the Mississippi Innocence Project, which began operation this month. The clinic housed at the University of Mississippi School of Law has started examining cases and will be pushing for legislative reform...

North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence Director and Exoneree to Speak and Campbell School of Law
The Campbell Law Innocence Project will host guest speakers Dwayne Dail and Chris Mumma on campus Jan. 21. Dail served 18 years in prison for the 1987 rape of a 12-year-old girl in Goldsboro until DNA testing revealed his innocence...

Innocence Project looks into explosion that killed KC firefighters
From Mike McGraw: The Kansas City-based Midwest Innocence Project announced Friday that it was launching an investigation into the case of five people convicted in the 1988 explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters...