19th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by our 'Dollars and Sense' panels on producing. Featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers. Reservations required: 212-714-7628, or email us at TRUStaff1@gmail.com. All performances will be at 7pm. Defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated. They constitute 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations (as of October 2016), and the great majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed.
The Innocence Project represents clients seeking post-conviction DNA testing to prove their innocence. We also consult on a number of cases on appeal in which the defendant is represented by primary counsel and we provide information and background on DNA testing litigation. To date, 375 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 21 who served time on death row.
These people served an average of 14 years in prison before exoneration and release.
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The Innocence Project’s full-time staff attorneys and Cardozo clinic students provide direct representation or critical assistance in most of these cases. Our intake and evaluation staff conduct extensive research into each case to determine whether DNA testing could be conducted to prove innocence. 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.
BUY THE BOOK $14.00 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 838 96 Pages What effect does it have on a person--a soul, a life--to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the words of six innocent men and women who, after years in jail, emerged from death row to try to reclaim what was left of their lives. Among them are Sunny Jacobs, a mother of two whose unwavering belief during sixteen years in jail that she would be released (despite the execution of her husband, who was also innocent, for the same crime) allowed her to dedicate herself to being a 'living memorial' when she was freed. There is Kerry Max Cook, a Texan who was convicted of murdering a young woman even though she was found with another man's hair grasped in her fist--a man whom 'Texas killed a thousand times, and just keeps on doing it' in his nightmares. Grmcprfrer Fr Dvd Iso Burning. And there is Delbert Tibbs, a black Chicago poet who speaks of his years on death row with anger and bitterness, yet also, as he says, 'still sings. Hfs+ Driver For Windows 8.1 here. ' All their stories have been compiled and edited by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen into The Exonerated, a play that is both a riveting work of theater and an exploration of the dark side of the American criminal justice system. CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR • • MACMILLAN NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers.
Reviews Praise for The Exonerated. “[A]stark, spellbinding play [and] a profoundly moving excursion through the cracks in the justice system.” — Peter Marks, Washington Post “An artful and moving evening of documentary theater... The play is on the one hand a devastating memorial to injustice but it also pays handsome tribute to the resilience of human hearts and minds.” — Charles Isherwood, Variety “Both compelling and deeply moving. This documentary-style presentation relating the true stories of people exonerated of their crimes while serving on death row is a riveting theatrical experience.” — Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter “Intense and deeply affecting” — Ben Brantley, The New York Times Reviews from Goodreads About the author Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen are actors as well as playwrights. Married to each other, they live in New York Jessica Blank.
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