The Georgia Innocence project is one of almost three dozen projects operating nationwide that use DNA evidence to help people who have been wrongfully convicted. It was inspired by the successes of the Innocence Project at New York’s Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. Over the past decade, 110 people have been exonerated because of DNA evidence.

It began in a Georgia State University law school classroom three years ago when practicing lawyer and professor Randy Rich mentioned the idea to Jill Polster and September Guy. The two students then took it upon themselves to start one in Atlanta. Click on the link below to visit the Georgia Innocence Project Site.