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==Mission== The Innocence Project's mission is "to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment."<ref name=about>{{cite web|title=About β Innocence Project|url=http://www.innocenceproject.org/about |website=Innocence Project|access-date=August 11, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ICJIA {{!}} Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority |url=https://icjia.illinois.gov/grants/programs/illinois-innocence-project/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=icjia.illinois.gov}}</ref> The Innocence Project focuses exclusively on post-conviction appeals in which [[DNA]] evidence is available to be tested or retested.<ref name=submissions>{{Cite news|title=Submit a Case to the Innocence Project|url=https://innocenceproject.org/submit-case/|access-date=2022-01-18|website=Innocence Project|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Acrobat Accessibility Report |url=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/250705.pdf |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=www.ojp.gov |language=en-us}}</ref> DNA testing is possible in 5β10% of criminal cases.<ref name="5 to 10 percent">{{cite web|title=The Innocence Project|url=http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Issue_in_focus_Evidence_Preservation.php|publisher=Innocence Project|access-date=June 6, 2016|location=New York|year=2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101015191928/http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Issue_in_focus_Evidence_Preservation.php|archive-date=2010-10-15|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=STATEMENT OF THE INNOCENCE PROJECT |url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ncfs/legacy/2014/05/13/inno-prj.pdf}}</ref> Other members of the [[Innocence Network]] also help to exonerate those in whose cases DNA testing is not possible.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Saumya |last2=Majumdar |first2=Rima |date=2018 |title=Innocence Project - Righting a Wrong |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nulj7&id=17&div=&collection= |journal=Nirma University Law Journal |volume=7 |pages=11}}</ref> In addition to working on behalf of those who may have been wrongfully convicted of crimes throughout the United States, those working for the Innocence Project perform research and advocacy related to the causes of [[wrongful conviction]]s.<ref name="The Innocence Project"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Innocence Project |url=https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/innocence-project/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=InfluenceWatch |language=en-US}}</ref> Some of the Innocence Project's successes have resulted in releasing people from [[death row]]. The successes of the project have fueled American opposition to the death penalty and have likely been a factor in the decision by some American states to institute [[moratorium (law)|moratoria]] on criminal executions.<ref name="Quinn signs bill">{{cite web|last=Rosenthal|first=Brian|title=Quinn signs bill ending death penalty in Illinois - Medill Innocence Project credited with having role in statewide debate|url=http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/quinn-signs-bill-ending-death-penalty-in-illinois-1.2510908|date=March 10, 2011|website=[[The Daily Northwestern]]|access-date=June 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314205336/http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/quinn-signs-bill-ending-death-penalty-in-illinois-1.2510908|archive-date=2011-03-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> In ''[[District Attorney's Office v. Osborne]]'' (2009), U.S. Supreme Court [[Chief Justice Roberts]] wrote that post-conviction challenge "poses questions to our criminal justice systems and our traditional notions of finality better left to elected officials than federal judges." In the opinion, another justice wrote that [[forensic science]] has "serious deficiencies." Roberts also said that post-conviction DNA testing risks "unnecessarily overthrowing the established system of criminal justice." Law professor [[Kevin Jon Heller]] wrote: "It might lead to a reasonably accurate one."<ref name="CB1">{{cite web|last=Lundin|first=Leigh|title=Dark Justice|url=http://www.criminalbrief.com/?p=7480|website=Criminal Brief|date=June 28, 2009}}</ref> As of June 2018, the Innocence Project's funding sources include 55% from individual contributions, 16% from foundations, 16% from events, 8% from investments, and 5% from corporations, Yeshiva University, and other sources.<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Report 2018|publisher=The Innocence Project|url=https://www.innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IP-AR2018_FINAL.pdf}}</ref>
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