# The Innocence Project

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-innocence-project/401392>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 24, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-innocence-project/401392 "2007-04-24T01:08:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-innocence-project/401392/1 "2007-04-24T01:08:30Z")

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This [group of do-gooders](http://www.innocenceproject.org/) deserves a huge communal hug from all of us. Go ahead and bash lawyers all you want, but these people are my heros. These “liberals”.  
They have managed to free 200 people who we (ahem) mistakenly imprisoned. How many more, I wonder, weren’t lucky enough to have the real perpetrator leave behind some DNA evidence.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-innocence-project/401392/2 "2007-04-24T01:13:15Z")

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There’s a new movie coming out called [The Trials of Darryl Hunt](http://www.breakthrufilms.org/trials/aboutfilm.html) that’s a documentary of one innocent man’s unbelievable story working his way through the system for 20 years, finally being released thanks to the Innocence Project.

Sadly, not exactly an isolated incident.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-innocence-project/401392/3 "2007-04-24T01:24:33Z")

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Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-innocence-project/401392/4 "2007-04-24T01:46:59Z")

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My last ex-boyfriend did a lot of volunteer work for them during and just after law school, on a case where a man who had been in Angola (in Louisiana) for **35** years on a rape charge he was innocent of was finally released. I was there at the final hearing. I had goosebumps.

The Innocence Project is seriously cool.

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-innocence-project/401392/5 "2007-04-24T02:05:18Z")

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[QUOTE=mangeorge]  
Go ahead and bash lawyers all you want…  
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I think the whole “lawyers are evil” meme is a conservative pro-big-corpration propaganda anyway. There’s no shame in praising lawyers.