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Evening w Huwe Burton Supporting Innocence Project

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Join the Business Leaders for Racial and Social Justice in a fundraising campaign supporting Innocence Project. Then, join us for An Evening with Huwe Burton, an innocent man, exonerated through work of the Innocence Project after spending 19 years in prison due to the wrongful murder conviction of his mother. During the live streamed event, hear Mr. Burton's story along with updates from Innocence Project, Policy Analyst, Mr. Nigel Quiroz.

Please support our goal to raise $1 Million to help end unjust imprisonment and criminal justice reform.

Watch Event LIVE here:  https://www.facebook.com/businessleadersforracialandsocialjustice/posts/120244453190631


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The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. More than 350 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 38 who pleaded guilty to crimes they did not commit and 20 who served time on death row. The Innocence Project provided direct representation or critical assistance in more than 200 exonerations.

The Innocence Project’s full-time staff attorneys and Cardozo clinic students provide direct representation or critical assistance in most of these cases. The Innocence Project’s groundbreaking use of DNA technology to free innocent people has provided irrefutable proof that wrongful convictions are not isolated or rare events but instead arise from systemic defects. Now an independent nonprofit organization closely affiliated with Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the Innocence Project’s mission is nothing less than to free the staggering numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.

With the generous support of individuals like you the Innocence Project has exonerated scores of innocent people and worked around the country to reform our criminal justice system. With the generous support of individuals like you the Innocence Project has exonerated scores of innocent people and worked around the country to reform our criminal justice system. You too can support our work by donating to the Innocence Project: http://owl.li/SeVW306DsEC

PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to give legal advice or accept cases over Facebook. To find out how to contact us and submit your case for consideration, please visit our website here: http://www.innocenceproject.org/contact/

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More information about Innocence Project, Inc.: The Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the U.S. criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. To date, more than 335 people nationwide have been exonerated through DNA testing and dozens of states have implemented critical reforms to prevent wrongful convictions.
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Lindsey All and Dr. Dana Wells
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Baton Rouge, LA
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