Study On The Discovery Procedure Of The Innocence Project In The United States

The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992, and became an independent nonprofit organization in 2004. Since the organization?s founding, 333 people have been exonerated through DNA testing in the United States, including 20 who were at one time sentenced to death. At present, the following problems in our country’s criminal justice seriously damage faimess of criminal justice. Misjudged cases can?t be found consciously and rectified in time, the channels for appeal are not smooth, etc. It is necessary to clarify the vague concept of misjudged criminal case,study its cause,and enact the policy of decreasing misjudged criminal case,which helps to achieve judicial justice by all means.