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Innocence Network

The Innocence Project is one of many organizations that is a member of the Innocence Network. The Innocence Network is dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions.

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2006

Exoneration Cedric Willis
Innocence Project New Orleans client
Conviction: Capital Murder, Armed Robbery
Years Served: 12

2007

MIP Established Mississippi Innocence Project Established at University of Mississippi School of Law

2008

Exoneration Levon Brooks
Innocence Project New York client
Charge: Capital Murder
Years Served: 18
Exoneration Kennedy Brewer
Innocence Project New York client
Charge: Capital Murder
Years Served: 13
Legislation Mississippi DNA Task Force Formed
Exoneration Arthur Johnson
Innocence Project New Orleans client
Charge: Rape
Years Served: 16

2009

Legislation DNA Preservation and Post-Conviction Testing Signed into Law
Legislation Compensation Statute Provides Funds to Wrongfully Convicted

2010

Exoneration Kevin Norwood
Charge: Armed Carjacking
Years Served: 15
Exoneration Philip Bivens
Innocence Project New Orleans client
Charge: Capital Murder
Years Served: 30
Legislation Requiring Board Licensing for pathologists performing State Funded Aubottomsies
Exoneration Larry Ruffin (Posthumously)
Innocence Project New Orleans client
Charge: Capital Murder
Years Served: 30
Exoneration Bobby Ray Dixon
Innocence Project New Orleans client
Charge: Capital Murder
Years Served: 30

2011

Legislation Establishing non-partisan, diverse panel tasked with appointing state medical examiner and creating advisory panel to aid medical examiner office issues
Legislation Eye-witness ID training

2012

2013

Legislation Helped to defeat HB 788

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