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BARRY SCHECK

The head of the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School in New York. Although he rose to national prominence in the O.J. Simpson case, for many years Barry Scheck has pioneered the use of DNA evidence in winning freedom for those wrongfully convicted and jailed.

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