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...Innocence Project is the brainchild of New York lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. Both gained fame as part of O.J. Simpson's legal "dream team," and Scheck returned to the media spotlight as the defense attorney for British au pair Louise Woodward. But the Innocence Project dates back to an earlier time, when Scheck and Neufeld were overworked and underpaid Legal Aid lawyers in the South Bronx. Like most defense lawyers, they believed the system made mistakes. And earlier than most, they realized that the hot new technology of DNA testing could revolutionize criminal defense by providing scientific proof...
They established the Innocence Project in 1991 as a clinic for students at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where Scheck has taught for more than 20 years. The clinic is a low-key place, hidden away on the 11th floor of an office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Law students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society...
...case is like a favorite gruesome fairy tale that you enjoy hearing over and over. "Daddy! Daddy! Tell us again about Lange and Vannatter!" Dunne does add detail and atmosphere, and recounts a few incidents that are fresh. In one of the book's most startling scenes, Barry Scheck, the defense lawyer who specializes in DNA evidence, takes Dunne aside and says that he is "haunted" by the Goldman family. "You know," Dunne quotes Scheck as saying, "in every job there are things to do that you don't want to do. I'm defending this guy." A few days...
...Scheck denies he ever said anything that suggested he felt guilty for defending Simpson. "I accidentally bumped into Kim Goldman," he says. "She reacted as if she had been hit by a cattle prod. I wanted Dunne to tell the Goldmans I would steer clear of them. I also said that they looked like good people and that I felt their loss." He insists the second encounter never happened. Told of Scheck's version, Dunne literally gasps and says he told a number of people about these exchanges at the time. "I was so moved by what...
...Marc J. Ambinder contributed to the reporting of this story.CrimsonLinda S. CuckovichIN THE AFTERMATH: Defense attorneys (front, from left) HARVEY SILVERGLATE, BARRY C. SCHECK and ANDREW GOOD address the media...