Thank you for supporting the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project’s Second Annual Awards Luncheon.  Your help enables us to more effectively provide critical investigative and legal services to prisoners in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia who otherwise would have no one to help them prove their innocence.

In the near future we will mail you an acknowledgment letter thanking you for your donation.  This letter can be used as a receipt for tax purposes.

Thank you again for your invaluable financial support.  I know the prisoners who write to us every day are as grateful for your generosity as we are.

Thomas Haynesworth has been maintaining his innocence of a 1984 rape for nearly 25 years, and now it appears DNA may prove his case. (more…)

Beverly Monroe spent 11 years trying to prove her innocence after being convicted of a crime she did not commit.  In March of 1992, Monroe found her long time boyfriend dead with a pistol in his hand.  Because prosecutors withheld evidence showing the likely cause of death to be a suicide, Monroe was found guilty of both first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.  Monroe was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Convinced of her mother’s innocence, Monroe’s eldest child, a lawyer, quit her job and spent the next six years trying to find evidence to prove it.  Kate Monroe assembled a team of lawyers to take on her mother’s case.  Due to her tireless efforts, Beverly Monroe was released after 11 years’ imprisonment. However, Monroe was never compensated for the time she spent in prison. (more…)