The Innocence Project uses DNA evidence to help exonerate wrongfully convicted people. In this interview, co-founder Barry Scheck talks about his work and reforms needed in the justice system to help prevent wrongful convictions.
the irony of him setting loose a murderer (OJ) only to look for salvation in his mission to exonerate the falsely convicted. Good for him , people do change. And to ask him now in intimacy and/or confidence I am sure he would say OJ was guilty.
What the hell are you talking about? He was just doing his job. It was up to the jurors to decide. If the LAPD did their job and not tamer with evidence, then OJ wouldn't be acquitted.
always wanted to write to barry scheck to tell him what a great man i think he is. i couldn't imagine being wrongly convicted. i also wonder if this is his way of paying society back for his part in getting o.j. off not trying to be a smartass. i do think barry scheck is a good good man.
I love this. I love that with scientific advancements we can change these great injustices. I wish you could help my friend~ To: Chet From: Korea (short)
My sister was a Respiratory Therapist and a born again Christian in 2006, living in Denver. She was always helping people; to a fault. She befriended a black woman patient in the hospital where she worked. The woman told my sister that she and her 14 year old son were kicked out of relatives homes and were homeless. My sister took them in. After a month, my sister was getting ready to throw them out, because she wasn't looking for a job. Then her 14 year old son (6'2" and 120 pounds) told a neighbor friend of his - that my sister "raped" him by forcefully tying him up with a phone cord and that she sat on him and raped him. (She is 5'3" and weighed 125 lbs) Because the mother knew she was about to be kicked out, she called the police about it. Any normal person would think the kid's story was more of a teenager's fantasy, but they chose to prosecute my sister. There were phone records to prove the kid was on the phone with a girl for hours during the time he said it happened. But her attorney told her - that that evidence wasn't necessary. He said she wouldn't get convicted. But she was convicted! She tried to appeal twice, emptying her bank account and and both her and her husband's retirement to no avail. The appeals were denied. So she lost her job, lost her retirement and has been on house arrest for almost 10 years, but only 4 of those years count as time served? She hasn't been able to be around her grandkids or do anything and tried to commit suicide numerous times, 2 of which she almost succeeded. A few months ago, they decided to send her to prison in Colorado, where she is now. She shares a cell with a woman in for murder doing 40 years and is on 23 hour lock-down. The guards and inmates treat her badly because she is in for a purported sex offense; which she did not do. My sister would never have done anything like that, and obviously she couldn't have forcefully raped a boy this hefty. Are the cops and law men this stupid? As insane as it seems, this really happened to her! It's almost unbelievable. She's now lost 10 years of her life because of a 14 year old's lies. He's 24 now, and I saw a You Tube video he uploaded with him and another man doing drugs in a bedroom before going to "da club." I've written to every person I could to get her help and this has torn the whole family up. This is really happening to people!
I am rotting in the Florida prison system and have been for over 30 years for a crime I did NOT commit. I am INNOCENT. My dc# is 789708. I had my family contact the Steve Wilkos show to try to get a lie detector test done because I know they use the test his show uses for the FBI , but they told my friend that they couldn't help me because I was already in prison. If anyone can help me please do.
Get someone to Google innocence project in ur area there's a number an an email address they also say the prisoner hast to write to the address in ur area where there located..
I really like to write Barry Scheck and let him know he is a few a t man w with a big heart and praise God he helping so many people I love you Barry since the OJ Simpson case you was remarkable, Mr Simpson was framed by Mark Furhman good job Barry RIP Johnnie Cochran I watch Simpson case thanks Mr Scheck
Self defense to murder,You tube Erie Parties/Joel Atkin,I was told to back off my sons case or I was gonna be found on the roadside dead.After looking at the Valerie Jones case from Erie,its got me a little worried.If they find me dead Please Help My Son!
It should be the Government whom is, going back over old case's and proving people innocent, not some under funded, private agency. isn't that what you pay for in the first place & why their there. ! Or they should be asking the Government too join in not compete against them in court but be alongside them or whom ever else in the court room. It defeats its' own purpose if it needs' funding and the Government has all the funding it could ever want .
I completely agree. Too much time is spent trying to save the necks of people that have committed the most disgusting and deplorable crimes when they should just be left to fend for themselves. The fact that a handfull of people were "exhonerated" 20-30 years after their conviction isn't a reason to treat all these scumbags like their innocent angels.
Okay, so then every person who was convicted of a crime but had an attorney appointed for them, the innocence project shouldn't be involved, right? Unfortunately, since EVERYONE is appointed an attorney if they can't afford one, now what we get is claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in pretty much every crime where life in prison or the death penalty is sentenced. Go and research it for yourself and find me ONE person who appealed a life sentence who didn't claim ineffective assistance
