Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project

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The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project is a non-profit organization that provides investigation and legal assistance to incarcerated people that claim to be wrongly convicted. The Project was founded in 2000 and is run through a network of attorneys and law students in the Washington, DC area. Under the supervision of attorneys, students investigate claims of innocence from prisoners. There is no cost to the prisoner for the Project’s services, although inmates may be asked to contribute to expenses related to investigation or testing.

For more information regarding what we do and what kinds of cases we handle, please click on the Innocence Project tab or visit our FAQ page.

08/11/10 - Old Case Testing Project Proves Innocence of Third Man

Almost 30 years after Calvin Wayne Cunningham was convicted of rape, DNA testing has proven that he could not have committed the crime and is innocent, just as he has always claimed.
Cunningham’s DNA sample neither matches the sperm nor the non-sperm secretions found on both the victim’s nightgown and vaginal swabs, providing conclusive evidence [...]

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06/04/10 - Please Join MAIP at our Third Annual Awards Luncheon Honoring the Norfolk Four Legal Team

The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project is excited to announce that our Third Annual Awards Luncheon will be held at the Ritz Carlton in Washington D.C. on July 14, 2010.
We will be presenting our Defender of Innocence award to the team of attorneys who earned the release of the Norfolk Four, led by Desmond [...]

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04/26/10 - MAIP Client Released After 18 Years in Prison

After serving more than 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, D.C. native Edward Bell has been released from prison after MAIP and co-counsel at Venable LLP uncovered evidence of his innocence and negotiated a deal with prosecutors to set him free.
Mr. Bell was convicted of being one of four assailants [...]

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Mr. Bell was convicted of being one of four assailants in a 1991 murder and armed robbery. By all accounts, four men got out of a red Jeep Cherokee in Northeast D.C. Two entered a building where the crimes were committed. The other two men served as look-out and getaway driver. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) quickly arrested the two shooters and one of the accomplices after each was identified by multiple eyewitnesses at the scene. However, no one could identify the second accomplice.

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