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The clinic was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld . In addition to services to individual defendants, it performs research and advocacy related to the incidence and causes of Wrongful Conviction s. As of September 2005 , it claims to have exonerated 175 defendants (as of March 13 , 2005) previously convicted of a serious crime in the United States . Almost all of these convictions involved some form of Sexual Assault and approximately 25% involved Murder . WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a landmark study by the United States Department Of Justice and the United States Senate , in conjunction with Columbia Law School . Among the study's estimates are a 5% failure rate in the U.S. justice system, which suggests as many as 100,000 falsely convicted prisoners. [http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/research/archive/ronhuff.htm Other reports place the estimate as high as 10%. [http://www.wcl.american.edu/innocenceproject/fact.htm] SEE ALSO
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