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July 09, 2005

Innocence Project

The New England Journal of Medicine blawgcasts an interview with Professor Mark A. Rothstein, a professor of law and medicine and the director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, on the use of DNA evidence to exonerate innocent prisoners [mp3]

It's a Supplement to Rothstein MA. Genetic Justice. N Engl J Med 2005:352(26);2667-8 [full text] and related to the Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, which pioneered the use of forensic DNA testing to provide scientific evidence of guilt or innocence after conviction.

Posted by Kevin J. Heller at July 9, 2005 08:49 PM