Editing Innocence Project (section)

==Founding==
The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] and [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]], in conjunction with [[Yeshiva University]]'s [[Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law]], which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.<ref name="midatlfact">{{cite web|url=http://www.exonerate.org/facts/causes-of-wrongful-convictions/mistaken-eyewitness-identifications/|title=Facts about Wrongful Convictions >>Mistaken Eyewitness Identifications|access-date=December 12, 2006|publisher=Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822012129/http://www.exonerate.org/facts/causes-of-wrongful-convictions/mistaken-eyewitness-identifications/|archive-date=August 22, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Innocence Project |url=https://cardozo.yu.edu/innocence-project |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=cardozo.yu.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Sullivan |first=Rory |date=2018-03-08 |title=The Innocence Project: A Short History Since 1983 • |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/perspectives-african-american-history/innocence-project-short-history-1983/ |access-date=2023-06-06 |language=en-US}}</ref> The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Scheck and Neufeld as part of a law clinic at Cardozo. It became an independent [[501(c)(3)]] [[nonprofit organization]] on January 28, 2003,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apps.dos.ny.gov/publicInquiry/|title=Public Inquiry - Search Our Corporation and Business Entity Database|website=[[New York State Department of State]], Division of Corporations|access-date=August 11, 2021}}</ref> but it maintains institutional connections with Cardozo.<ref name="faq">{{cite web|url=http://www.innocenceproject.org/about/FAQs.php|title=Frequently Asked Questions|access-date=December 9, 2011|publisher=Innocence Project|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228011313/http://www.innocenceproject.org/about/FAQs.php|archive-date=December 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=element |first=Aebra Coe {{!}} 2022-10-27 10:43:14-0400 · Listen to article Your browser does not support the audio |title=Cardozo To Build Justice Center With $15M From Marvel Chair - Law360 Pulse |url=https://www.law360.com/pulse/articles/1543605/cardozo-to-build-justice-center-with-15m-from-marvel-chair |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=www.law360.com |language=en}}</ref> Madeline deLone was the [[executive director]] from 2004 until 2020,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Madeline_deLone.php|title=Madeline deLone, Executive Director|website=Innocence Project|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627030642/http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Madeline_deLone.php|archive-date=June 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Avenue |first1=677 Huntington |last2=Boston |last3=Ma 02115 |date=2016-07-19 |title=A Matter of Conviction |url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/a-matter-of-conviction/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=Harvard Public Health Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> succeeded by [[Christina Swarns]], who argues before the Unted States Supreme Court before joining the group, on September 8, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-04-27|title=Innocence Project announces new executive director|url=https://innocenceproject.org/christina-swarns-to-become-the-new-executive-director-of-the-innocence-project/|access-date=2021-02-15|website=Innocence Project|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Leading the Innocence Project |url=https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/15144-leading-the-innocence-project |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=www.law.upenn.edu |language=en}}</ref>

The Innocence Project is the headquarters of the [[Innocence Network]], a group of nearly 70 independent innocence organizations worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Innocence Movement, the Innocence Network, and Policy Reform (From Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform: Making Justice, 2014, Marvin Zalman and Julia Carrano, eds., See NCJ-244328) {{!}} Office of Justice Programs |url=https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/innocence-movement-innocence-network-and-policy-reform-wrongful |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=www.ojp.gov}}</ref> One such example exists in the [[Republic of Ireland]] where in 2009 a project was set up at [[Griffith College Dublin]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/ucinlr80&div=52&id=&page=|title=The Irish Innocence Project Symposium: An International Exploration of Wrongful Conviction 80 University of Cincinnati Law Review 2011-2012|journal=University of Cincinnati Law Review|volume=80|page=1293|access-date=2017-11-14|last1=Langwallner|first1=David}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Langwallner |first=David |title=The Irish Innocence Project |url=https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1143&context=uclr |access-date=2012-06-05 |website=University of Cincinnati}}</ref>