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Alaska Innocence Project to host fundraiser Friday

The Alaska Innocence Project, which strives to exonerate prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted, will host its first fundraiser in Juneau this Friday, Feb. 8.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-02-06/alaska-innocence-project-host-fundraise
Local
Alaska Innocence Project faces challenges

...attempts to reach the Fairbanks district attorney for this story were unsuccessful. O'Donoghue said he has assisted the Innocence Project by searching the Fairbanks area for an abandoned 1976 red Monte Carlo that might be connected to Hartman's killing...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011111/sta_768348846.shtml
News
Outside editorial: Use DNA evidence to find the truth

...inmates demanding the same thing, whether they're innocent or guilty. But Nina Morrison, a staff attorney for the Innocence Project, says that under the federal statute invoked in this case, there have been only about two dozen such petitions...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031011/opi_797290760.shtml
Opinion
Court split on convict's right to test DNA

...Osborne, faced skeptical questions from Justice Antonin Scalia, Alito and Roberts. Neufeld is a co-founder of The Innocence Project, which helps free wrongly convicted prisoners. Neufeld said states provide access to the genetic evidence at...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030309/sta_400600246.shtml
New DNA testing process requires nary a drop of blood

...exclusion is usually 100 percent, Chidambaram said. She mentioned the impact of Short Random Repeat typing on The Innocence Project, a nationwide effort to test DNA from old cases. ``If it doesn't match at even one of the 13 sites, you...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052100/Loc_dna.html
Local
Innocence group to aid Alaska convict

...the country has filed its first case in Alaska. The Innocence Project seeks DNA testing of evidence used to convict William...also be used to free wrongfully convicted men. The Innocence Project limits its cases to situations where DNA results...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072303/sta_convictaid.shtml
News
Group looks into Alaska version of Innocence project

...guy with me that pulled the trigger."' Denise Morris, president of the Alaska Native Justice Center, said the Innocence Project is not something tries to find loopholes in the law. "They really do try to focus on the possibility that someone...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110105/sta_20051101012.shtml
News
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...exclusion is usually 100 percent, Chidambaram said. She mentioned the impact of Short Random Repeat typing on The Innocence Project, a nationwide effort to test DNA from old cases. ``If it doesn't match at even one of the 13 sites, you...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052100/Loc_dna.shtml
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Alaska man's DNA appeal

...The victim's testimony was a case of mistaken identity. The battle over Osborne's test has been taken up by The Innocence Project, a New York-based group that goes to court to free wrongfully convicted people through DNA evidence, and also...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/021709/sta_389870131.shtml
High court looks at prisoners' right to DNA test

...conviction, it protects our system of justice by revealing the truth," said Peter Neufeld, co-director of The Innocence Project. "Alaska is the exception." Neufeld's group, which works to exonerate those who are wrongfully convicted...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030109/sta_399877094.shtml
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