Peter Neufeld

... lobbying, but that, that was interesting to wet my, sort of dip my toe into it.

But the Innocence Project, which is the, I think the foremost, you know, criminal justice reform organization in the country, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who were two extraordinary civil rights attorneys, pioneered the use of DNA-

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... to prove innocence.

Just yesterday, President Clinton announced that he was favorably disposed towards legislation that would make DNA testing available to death row inmates.

Attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld are at the forefront of the effort to utilize these techniques.

In nineteen ninety-two, they formed the Innocence Project, which has helped free thirty-seven men and has provided the basis for a new book.

Actual Innocence details some of the cases they have taken on and the controversy DNA testing has brought to the courtroom in the last decade.

Arthur Miller calls it a powerful and illuminating look into the obscene quagmire of American criminal prosecutions.

Joining me now, the directors of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, and their collaborator on this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Jim Dwyer.

I'm pleased to have them all here.

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