Georgia Innocence Project
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The Georgia Innocence Project is a non-profit corporation with the mission "to free the wrongly prosecuted through the use of DNA testing. To advance practices that minimize the chances that others suffer the same fate. To educate the public that wrongful convictions are not isolated or rare events. To help the exonerated rebuild their lives."
It was founded August 2002 by September Guy and Jill Polster, and is headed by Executive Director Aimee Maxwell. Cases that are accepted are assigned to a team of a volunteer lawyer and two interns. Two people have been exonerated by the organization's efforts, Clarence Harrison in August, 2004, and Robert Clark in December, 2005.
On January 22, 2007, a third Georgia Innocence Project client, Pete Williams, was freed after spendinig 21 years in prison. In 1985, a jury convicted Williams for the rape of a Sandy Springs, Georgia, woman. Williams was exonerated based upon DNA evidence[1].
