The Innocence Project: DNA and the Wrongly Convicted

Barry C. Scheck is Professor of Law and Director of the Innocence Project Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Best known for his landmark litigation setting standards for forensic applications of DNA technology, he and Peter Neufeld coauthored with Jim Dwyer Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. He is a commissioner on New York's Forensic Science Review Board, first vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and serves on the board of the National Institute of Justice's Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. He has also represented such notable clients as Hedda Nussbaum, O. J. Simpson, Louise Woodward, and Abner Louima. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, he was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York.