Nonprofit takes up work to overturn wrongful convictions after closure of Idaho Innocence Project
A new nonprofit is continuing the work of the shuttered Idaho Innocence Project to overturn wrongful convictions. The project previously helped exonerate Charles Fain, who spent nearly 20 years on death row.
Charles Fain says his three favorite letters in the alphabet are D-N-A. In 2001, Fain was exonerated and released from an Idaho prison after nearly 20 years on death row for a rape and murder he did not commit, using DNA analysis spearheaded by the Idaho Innocence Project. That project has been shuttered for more […]
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