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...Students can walk in and immediately feel like this is a space that’s mine and that I can call my own,” says the pub’s mastermind, Zachary A. Corker ’04, who was hired as project manager of Loker Commons Planning and Program Development just over a year after graduating from the College...
...Funding for the Innocence Project has also changed over the past 15 years. In the beginning, Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University funded the program entirely. But today, in an effort to become more independent, the program gets only 10% of the money for its pro bono work from the school - foundations and individual donors provide the rest. Students from Cardozo, however, remain intimately involved. Each semester, a handful are selected to help with the Innocence Project's enormous caseload (currently 250), by researching, collecting old evidence, examining the circumstances surrounding the cases and digging through boxes of old case...
...served more than two decades in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting, mutilating and murdering two of his girlfriend's children, ages 7 and 8. DNA testing was not available during Halsey's trial, but after obtaining all the necessary evidence - a process that took the Innocence Project three years - a DNA profile from the crime scene showed a direct link to the children's next-door neighbor, who is currently in prison for sexually assaulting two women in the early 1990s. "When we first read the summary of the case, it sounded like convincing evidence of Halsey...
...have resulted in a guilty verdict after a retrial. Bob Keller, the district attorney in the case of Calvin Johnson, who served more than 15 years in a Georgia prison for a rape he didn't commit, did not prosecute Johnson again. "I applaud the efforts of the Innocence Project," Keller says. "If not for that project, Calvin would still be in jail, which would be an absolute travesty." Keller now works with the Georgia Innocence Project, trying to get legislation passed for all criminal cases to use DNA evidence when available. And he says that most of his peers...
...nowadays the team takes extra steps to ensure it that evidence is retrievable. They've also come to rely on and trust their dedicated and highly motivated staff. "I couldn't think of a job that I would rather be doing," says Potkin, who has been with the project since 2000. "When people come to us, they've exhausted every appeal. The Innocence Project for most is the last resort, and we can use the most state-of-the-art science to prove innocence. Every day it's an honor to be a part...