Actual Innocence

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A 3 page book review of the text Actual Innocence. The Innocence Project is a program based at the Cardozo Law School in New York, which is run by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. Jim Dwyer is a columnist for The Daily News, a New York newspaper (Boyer). Their book, Actual Innocence, describes some of the cases reopened by the Innocence Project, which uses DNA evidence to exonerate innocent people wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned. Their book describes harrowing narratives that indicate that obtaining criminal justice in this country is something of a hit-or-miss proposition in this country and that, in terms of justice, the majority of cases fall on the "miss" side of the equation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.