CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE

THE 2016 ANNUAL REPORT Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,

The Innocence Project row. These people served an are not isolated or rare events was founded in 1992 by average of 14 years in prison but instead arise from systemic Barry C. Scheck and Peter before and release. defects. Now an independent J. Neufeld at the Benjamin The Innocence Project’s full- nonprofit organization closely N. Cardozo School of Law time staff attorneys and Cardozo affiliated with Cardozo School at Yeshiva University to clinic students provided direct of Law at Yeshiva University, assist prisoners who could representation or critical the Innocence Project’s mission be proven innocent through assistance in most of these is nothing less than to free the DNA testing. To date, 350 cases. The Innocence Project’s staggering number of innocent people in the United States groundbreaking use of DNA people who remain incarcerated have been exonerated by technology to free innocent and to bring substantive reform DNA testing, including 20 people has provided irrefutable to the system responsible for who served time on death proof that wrongful convictions their unjust imprisonment. Letter from the Co-Directors, This year marks the Innocence Project’s 25th anniversary. Who would Board Chair and have known back in 1992 that our work would eventually lead to an Executive Director...... 4 overhaul in how the criminal justice system and the judiciary investigate A Paradigm Shift...... 6 and try criminal cases?

Championing A When the Innocence Project started as a fledgling law clinic at Cardozo New Golden Standard...... 8 Law School, our work was considered unconventional, to say the least. Our goal then was to apply DNA testing to criminal justice—not as a Dismantling the Status Quo for Criminal Investigations...... 10 means to convict but rather as a tool to reveal innocence in cases of wrongful conviction and to expose widespread failure in the system’s Fostering Change In the capacity to protect innocent people and uphold justice. Now, a quarter Past and into the Future...... 12 of a century later, our mission remains intact, but with all that the Restoring Justice, exoneration cases have revealed, the breadth and scope of our work Restoring Freedom...... 14 have also expanded and evolved.

Year in Review...... 16 In the past 25 years, with the help of many dedicated supporters, the Financial Information...... 18 Innocence Project has helped hundreds of innocent people from around the country to secure freedom and justice. Their stories stirred a public Donors...... 19 awakening and, in essence, ignited a new justice movement.

Staff ...... 28 The exoneration cases bared truth about our justice system. They Board of Directors...... 30 exposed where the system is most flawed and taught us that wrongful convictions are not anomalies; they’re byproducts of a system that Founders Circle...... 31 regularly misses the mark.

Photo © mattedesign With lessons learned through DNA exoneration cases, the Innocence Project Peter J. Neufeld has fostered meaningful state and federal reform. Partnering with exonerees Co-Director as well as members of the Innocence Network, we’ve educated lawmakers from across the country around the causes of wrongful conviction. Barry C. Scheck Leveraging this growing awareness, we’ve pressed for the successful Co-Director passage of more than 100 laws related to our work. Maddy deLone In tandem, the Innocence Project has offered innovative and science- Executive Director based solutions to courts and law enforcement to confront some of the chief contributors to wrongful convictions, whether they be eyewitness misidentification, forensic practices that aren’t backed by science, false Board Chair confessions, government misconduct, incentivized witnesses or inadequate defense lawyers.

Now a quarter of a century in—with many successes behind us but even more challenges ahead—the Innocence Project is preparing to employ its unique expertise to contribute to tackling the system’s deeper systematic failures: racial bias; overreliance on guilty pleas, especially in misdemeanor cases; the lack of accountability for prosecutors; and inadequate public defense systems—through education, advocacy, litigation and science- and research- based reforms.

We hope that you will join us for the next leg of our journey. Undoubtedly, we could never have made it this far without you. And we know that our continued work and success is possible only through the committed giving of friends and supporters like you. 5 A PARADIGM SHIFT Darryl Howard was Several factors contributed to his But a new justice movement—one wrongful conviction, including that met at the cross section of wrongfully convicted and science and criminal justice—was the use of unreliable informants burgeoning. The Innocence Project for a double murder as eyewitnesses at his trial. At had formed three years prior in North Carolina that time though, most Americans and was using DNA technology couldn’t conceive that an innocent to expose a phenomenon that in 1995. man could be sent to prison, much few knew existed: the wrongful less that it was common practices conviction of innocent people. used throughout our nation’s Each of the wrongful conviction trusted criminal justice system cases that the Innocence Project that led to it happening. litigated served as a teaching

6 Darryl Howard, seated outside his home in North Carolina, several days after he was YEARS exonerated in August 2016. Photo: Sameer Abdel-Khalek. OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE 1992

• and establish the Innocence Project (IP) at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

• The IP’s first client, Glen Woodall, exonerated in West Virginia.

moment. They provided detailed develop surefire methods—many and indisputable proof that our of which have been adopted by justice system is indeed fallible. law enforcement all around the This work stirred the country to country—to correct and prevent reexamine its beliefs about the the system’s mistakes, and help criminal justice system and to call rebuild the system into the fairer 1993 on law enforcement, the judiciary one to which we’re all entitled. • Kirk Bloodsworth becomes and policy makers to take action In 2001, a post-conviction DNA first person exonerated from through post- ensure justice and the protection testing law passed in North conviction DNA testing. of innocent people. Carolina, paving the way for The cases also informed and Howard’s exoneration in 2016. led the Innocence Project to

777 CHAMPIONING A NEW GOLDEN STANDARD After spending four years The year that Harrell was But in order to pursue DNA testing in prison and two decades convicted, not a single state in cases like Dion’s, new and had a law explicitly granting better laws had to be passed. on the sex offender prisoners access to DNA testing. In direct response to the lack of registry, Dion Harrell DNA technology would become access across numerous states, the Innocence Project fostered was exonerated in 2016 the hallmark of the Innocence Project’s work—leveraging legislative reform, making post- of a 1992 wrongful rape science to expose the system’s conviction DNA testing possible conviction in New Jersey. mistakes, to exonerate innocent for people trying to secure their people of wrongful convictions innocence. and to identify real perpetrators.

8 Dion Harrell pictured here 1996 with family and supporters standing outside a New Jersey • U.S. Attorney courthouse, just minutes General after being exonerated. Janet Reno commissions Photo: Sameer Abdel-Khalek. report on causes of the 28 wrongful convictions overturned through DNA testing.

2000

• , by Peter Neufeld, Barry Scheck and Times reporter , is published.

• Earl Washington is exonerated based on DNA evidence. His case helped pass laws that make it easier for people to get their cases back in court to prove their innocence.

2001

• IP client Marvin Anderson is exonerated under newly passed DNA testing law in In 2013, we celebrated Oklahoma incarcerated in order to access Virginia. becoming the 50th state to pass post-conviction testing, making • IP celebrates the exoneration such a law, but we continue to him ineligible. But the Innocence of Indiana-based client Larry refine those laws to get rid of Project worked closely with Mayes—the 100th person onerous restrictions that still state legislators to eliminate exonerated in the United limit accessibility. For example, those restrictions. Now, under States. in Harrell’s case, when the a much-improved law, more Innocence Project first petitioned people have the constitutional 2003 the court for DNA testing, New right to access DNA testing to • Illinois becomes first state Jersey law required people to be prove their innocence. to pass a law requiring digital recording of interrogation from start to finish.

999 Last spring, Keith Harward was exonerated based on DNA evidence after spending 34 years in prison for a 1982 rape and murder in New Port News, Virginia, that he did not commit. Photo: Richmond Times-Dispatch.

DISMANTLING THE STATUS QUO FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS In April of 2016, Keith Harward’s wrongful conviction was belonged to another individual— Harward was exonerated of based on bite mark comparison not Harward. analysis—a forensic method we now Many people have been sent to rape and murder in Virginia. know to be completely lacking in prison based on forensic methods He spent nearly 34 years of scientific validity. Over the course that have no scientific foundation of his prosecution, six forensic his life behind bars, all the or through misleading expert dentists testified that the marks testimony. In response, over the past while being innocent. found on one of the victims of the 25 years, we’ve raised the bar for 1982 crime scene were made by forensic practices so that they are Harward’s teeth. But recent testing scientifically validated, reliable and of crime scene evidence proved communicated accurately. unequivocally that the dentists were wrong. DNA left at the scene We’ve successfully prompted investigations into misapplied

10 2004

• The IP becomes an independent non-profit organization.

• Congress passes the Justice for All Act, which includes the and the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program. DISMANTLING

THE STATUS QUO 2005 • The IP successfully pushes for the creation of the Forensic Science Commission. FOR CRIMINAL • After Innocence, featuring IP clients, INVESTIGATIONS premieres at Sundance Film forensic science at state-based enact laws that mandate smarter Festival. labs. We’ve called on and partnered investigation practices that aim with law enforcement—including to prevent wrongful convictions. 2006 the FBI and the U.S. Justice And we’ve started to change court Department—to investigate cases rules to ensure that the evidence • Independent arson panel finds that the forensic in which they used harmful and presented at trial meets rigorous analysis used to convict inaccurate practices or erroneous scientific standards. — testimony to secure convictions, in With these changes, a path to executed in 2004—was some cases where people turned freedom was charted for many seriously out to be innocent. flawed; the now-exonerated people, including fire was an Also, we’ve forged alliances with Keith Harward, and we hope for accident. federal and state legislators to the many others who await justice.

111111 FOSTERING CHANGE IN THE PAST AND INTO THE FUTURE After a wrongful rape and The jury at his retrial acquitted welcomed by his family and murder conviction in 1993 him based on results from DNA warmly embraced by his community. tests as well as evidence of “I’m the luckiest guy in the world,” and a retrial for the same police corruption in his case he says. crime in 2016, Anthony which revealed that he was But Wright still has a hard innocent. After 25 years, Wright Wright of Philadelphia road ahead. was released in August 2016; was finally exonerated. his justice was restored. Pennsylvania is one of 18 states that does not have a compensation Since regaining his freedom, statute for people who’ve been Wright says that he’s been exonerated of wrongful convictions.

12 Anthony Wright is all hugs and 2007 kisses with his granddaughter on the day of his acquittal in • IP client Jerry Miller, of Philadelphia. Photo: Kevin Monko. Illinois, becomes the 200th person exonerated through DNA testing.

2008

• Maryland passes a bill requiring recording of interrogations for investigations of murders, rapes, and first- and second- degree sex offenses.

2009

• The National Academy of Sciences issues report calling for comprehensive reform of forensic sciences and increased forensic oversight.

2010

• Sixteen innocence-related bills pass in 11 states with help from the IP. The Innocence Project is working to tackling deeper systematic to change this. In coming years, failures—racial injustice in the 2011 getting fair compensation criminal justice system; America’s • New Jersey Supreme Court statutes passed in each of the guilty plea problem; the lack of issues landmark decision in 50 states will be a priority for us prosecutorial accountability; State v. Henderson, creating and members of the Innocence and inadequate indigent defense scientifically informed test Network. systems—through education, for the admissibility of eyewitness evidence. As we move forward, we will advocacy, litigation and science- also deepen our commitment and research-based reforms.

13 RESTORING JUSTICE, RESTORING FREEDOM Since 1992, the Innocence dedicated donors. From the Now in our 25th year, Project has been at the beginning, our supporters our circle of donors and helm of a transformative have demonstrated a deep friends has grown evermore justice movement, but connection to the purpose generous, evermore only because of our and mission of our work. knowledgeable about

14 2012 • Damon Thibodeaux becomes 300th person exonerated by DNA and 18th to have served time on death row.

2013

• Oklahoma becomes the 50th state in the country to pass a post-conviction DNA testing law.

• Former Williamson County Prosecutor Ken Anderson enters plea to contempt for misconduct in IP client Michael Morton’s wrongful murder conviction

2014

• National Academy of Sciences issues landmark report evaluating scientific research on memory and eyewitness identification.

2015 the causes of wrongful The Innocence Project • The DOJ, the FBI, the IP and conviction and evermore thanks you for your steady the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers committed to playing a support. You are true report that the FBI examiners’ role in meaningful change. champions of justice. testimony in at least 90% of trial transcripts the bureau analyzed as part of its microscopic hair comparison analysis review contained erroneous statements.

15 2016 VICTORIES: A YEAR IN REVIEW

RESTORING FREEDOM GROWING OUR COMMUNITY Represented clients in 40 states: 198 ACTIVE CASES 85,000 1 million 57% CONSULT CASES MORE MORE VIEWS INCREASE 40 Facebook likes than in 2015 to innocenceproject.org in views from 2015

EDUCATING THE COURTS Trained nearly 3,700 judges, attorneys, forensic practitioners, scientists and academics on eyewitness I.D. and forensics testimony in court. We achieved major court rulings: 15 IN EYEWITNESS I.D. 23 IN FORENSICS

DRIVING BETTER LAWS AND POLICIES, PROTECTING MORE PEOPLE We successfully lobbied for the reauthorization of the Justice for All Act. The law will: REAUTHORIZE INCREASE EXPAND FUNDING AND OVERSIGHT PROGRAM THE BLOODSWORTH POST-CONVICTIONS ACCESS TO POST-CONVICTION FOR STATE AND LOCAL CRIME LABS DNA TESTING PROGRAM AT $10M PER YEAR DNA TESTING IN FEDERAL CASES —DOUBLE THE PREVIOUS AMOUNT Our work fostered We led the passage of: statewide eyewitness RECORDING OF reform in: INTERROGATIONS LAWS MA, MI, MT, AND NV. IN CO AND CA; EYEWITNESS ID LAWS IN KS AND NE; COMPENSATION LAWS IN MI AND HI.

16 2016

• The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and IN 25 YEARS, Technology releases landmark report evaluating forensics, A YEAR IN REVIEW THE INNOCENCE PROJECT HAS: urging the National Institute of Standards and Technology RECEIVED NEARLY to evaluate the foundational validity of current and future forensic disciplines. 55,000 • Department of Justice LETTERS REQUESTING LEGAL REPRESENTATION recommends that all federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors follow science-based eyewitness FOSTERED THE PASSAGE OF MORE THAN identification best practices.

2017 100 • IP launches CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM LAWS GuiltyPleaProblem.org to bring awareness to fact that innocent people plead guilty PROVIDED DIRECT REPRESENTATION to crimes they didn’t commit. OR CRITICAL ASSISTANCE IN NEARLY 200 DNA-BASED EXONERATION CASES IN A 5-YEAR SPAN, WE’VE TRAINED APPROXIMATELY 13,000 LAWYERS, FORENSIC PRACTITIONERS AND ACADEMICS ON EYEWITNESS I.D. AND FORENSIC TESTIMONY IN COURT

17 FISCAL YEAR 2016 FINANCIAL INFORMATION JULY 1, 2015 – JUNE 30, 2016

OPERATING REVENUE

25% INDIVIDUALS 6,865,780 9% FOUNDATIONS 2,491,676 1% CORPORATIONS 358,101 6% FUNDRAISING EVENTS (NET) 1,529,649 2% YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 425,000 2% INVESTMENTS 576,363 55% DONATED SERVICES 15,207,897 $27,454,466

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90% PROGRAMS 23,436,258 6% MANAGEMENT 1,621,583 4% FUNDRAISING 1,030,496 $26,088,337

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Gunst and John Rudolph Ray Fishman Vivek Sanjay Gupta Jody Fleischer Alan Guth FY16 DONORS 23 Hank and Karoly Gutman Kaiserman Foundation Lesley Link and John Ellison Matthew Guttag Sameer Kale Bruce Lipien Alexis Hafken in honor of Fred Samuel Harold Kalishman Robert Little Rebecca Hamadock Rebecca Kalmus Peter J. and Courtney Lobert Beverly and Lyman Hamilton Bina Kalola Carl Lockwood and Anne Logan Hammond Family Foundation Susan L. Kannenberg Lockwood The Handshake Foundation Julie Kaplan Erika Long Deanna Hare Karen Kaplowitz Mort L. and Eleanor L. Lowenthal Dorian and Nancy Ann Harewood James Kasson in honor Michael David Lubin and Betty L. Engel Richard S. and Christy J. Hargesheimer of Stephen Schulte Mikayla Lytton Jeffrey Harris David Katz Steven Maass The William H. & Mattie W. Harris Ronald Kaufmann Anne Mackinnon Foundation Stephen B. Kay John and Ann Mahoney Albert and Linda Hartig Dennis H. Keith John and Ann Mahoney in Dr. Paul Hartunian in honor Jack Kessler honor of Stephen Schulte of Keith Harward Pamela Kinsey Lorraine Malanga Wuan Myron Head The Kirby Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin Belinda Heard Scott Kirkwood Richard Mallinson Jay and Elizabeth Heiser Joseph & Jacqueline Kirshbaum Naju Mancheril Hello Products Memorial Fund of the Liberty Hill Mandel Foundation Jeff A. Herbers Foundation Gene and Lynn Manheim in Stuart Hersch The Kirsner Family Charitable Fund memory of Charles Manheim Elfi Hertel The Amy Klette Newman Foundation, Peter Marreck Joseph W. and Dorothy Hildebrandt Marc Joseph, Trustee The Honorable Gary F. Marton and in memory of Richard Hildebrandt Hans and Ann Knaak Monique R. Marton David Hoberman Daniel and Vivian Korich Jennifer Massie in memory of Brigid L. M. Hogan Judith M. Korn Felice and Edward Massie Eric and Sarah Hoggard Michael Kramer Ellen McBride, Schreiber Family Michele Holley Lois Kroll Foundation Scott Daniel Hood Nancy Kronheim Melissa McBride Delbert Bear Hooker Emily Kunreuther Stephanie McCalmon Linda and Curt Horowitz Ward La Fleur The McClain Family Fund Karen Houghton Laura Lakin Thomas McClendon James J. Houlihan Jon and Barbara Landau Wynn and Shawna McCloskey Daniel K. Hsiung Stephen Langdon Jeffrey McConnell Lisa Hsu Benjamin Last Charles Norman McCullough and Carol Lowery McCullough Helen Hu Raymond F. Leanza Lucy McDiarmid in honor of R. G. Huber Dr. Stephen S. Leavitt and Allan and Eleanor Metrick John and Janet Hudson Maribelle Leavitt Daniel McDonald Scott Hughes Gerald B. Lefcourt Jay H. McDonald Jessica Hunsdon Francine LeFrak and Rick Friedberg Burton and Brenda Lehman Michael McKenzie in honor Sanford Hunt of David Lee Gavitt Robert Lehman Richard and Bette Hyman Arnold McKinnon Brian Lehrer Patricia M. Hynes and Roy L. Reardon Stewart and Kathryn McMillan Paula Lenchner David Iannuzzi Cathy McNamara Lenfestey Family Foundation, Inc. Tom Isaacson and Anne Watson Karen M. McNees Lauren Levenstein Sylvia J. Iverson Mimi Mendelson John Levin and Diane Keefe Jill Janov Arul A. Menezes and Lucy Vanderwende Phyllis Jean Levinthal Paul A. Jeanne Olivier B. Meslay Levy Family Charity Fund Jefferies LLC A.C. Metcalf Charles Lewis Richard Jeppesen Andrew Miller and Amelia Munger Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Chris L. Johnson Robert Milner Kris Licht Christopher Johnson Phillip Mindlin Nancy A. Lieberman Eric E. Jones Mark Mogler Simone Liebman and Matthew Berlin Anna Josenhans and Greg Hayden Mary W.T. Moore and David Moore Erik Ligas Robert Jossen Tamara Moore Allison Ligon Peter and Amy Kadens Tim Moore Richard Kahn Malaise Lindenfeld 24 Jonathan Mooser and Susan Butler Plum “I have been involved Sara Brannin-Mooser Jonny Podell in policing for almost Cynthia Morales Martin Pollack Mary R. Morgan David J. Poorvu 50 years. I support the Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP Prasad Revocable Trust Innocence Project for two MorphoTrust USA, Inc. Vered Rabia, Esq. reasons. It helps correct Alan B. and Anne S. Morrison Jennie Rabinowitz and Daniel Jamieson horrible mistakes that Barry G. Moss Benjamin Raffiani Kathleen Muir The Ragin Family Fund occur in the criminal C. W. Mulaney, Jr. Raphael Foundation, Inc. justice process and, Ian Murray Ellen Ray and Gary Ostroff equally important, it is Ralph Nader Lee S. Richards, III significantly contributing Thomas Nagle and Leslie Haller Ellen and Mitchell B. Rick to changing policies and Joseph Nahmias Linda S. Riefberg and Lee H. Perlman Steven Napolitano and Linda Hughes Robert Wood Johnson Foundation practices responsible for Susan K. Nathan The Robins Family Foundation many of those mistakes.” Kathryn Neel and Adam R. Kluge Judith Rocker Nelco Foundation Audrey Roco Jim Neuberger and Shira Rohde Helen Stambler Neuberger Robert C. Rohdie – Darrel W. Stephens, Muriel Neufeld Jerome and Katie Rose Executive Director, New Mexico Community Foundation Mitchell Rose Major Cities Chiefs & Marthanne Dorminy Fund Morris and Mary Rossabi in Association Dr. Rick Newton memory of Mayer Rossabi Paul Norder Jessica Roth and Ben Lawsky in honor Bernard W. Nussbaum of Rodney Ellis and Stephen Schulte NVIDIA Kurt Roth Nongkoh Nwadibia David and Carole D. Rowe Thomas Nyberg Family Foundation Benjamin Rubin in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John T. O’Connell Howard and Wilma Kaye Erisa Ojimba Professor David Rudenstine Preye Okah and Zina Rudenstine Olseth Family Foundation Josh Rudolf in honor of Josh Rudolf Michael O’Malley in memory Dr. Sue Rummel of Sam Dubose Chris Runhaar Devon O’Rourke Dr. Randall Russell Jim O’Sullivan Ben Ryan Owenoke Foundation Steven M. Safyer, MD and Kevin L. Palmer Paula Marcus, MD Jane and Carl Panattoni Salesforce Foundation Thomas H. Papanek Kenneth I. Sandbank Rita Hayworth Patrick Santander Bank N.A. Stephen Patterson Mckenzie Santiago in Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP memory of Jeffery Chase Julie Paulson Carlo Sarmiento James M. Peck and Janis Weiss Peck Edmund Sassoon in Joseph R. and Amy Perella memory of Lotte E. Feinberg Perforce Foundation and Colin Grant Barbara A. Saurer and Charles B. White Daniel Perlman and Jane Katims Susan Scattergood Francesca Beaty Perry Frederick P. Schaffer Martin L. Perschetz in honor of Stephen Schulte Mark Schein Andrei Perumal and Jason Schlabach and Kathryn O’Keefe Barbara Jean Perumal Paul Schnapp Jennifer Phillips Timothy Schnapp Ron Pile Karen and Mahlon Schneider Rebecca Pineiro David Schonberger Kenneth A. and Bettina B. Plevan Stephen J. Schulhofer and Laurie Wohl FY16 DONORS 25 Cathleen and Jeffrey Schulte Walter C. Slack Lila and Brendan Sullivan Sarah P. Schuppisser and Gregory Slisz Anthony J. and Natalie M. Sullo Michael Bull Mario L. Small Dr. William Sutton Jeffrey J. Schwartz Dr. Earl Smith Chudney Sykes Jerome M. Schwartzman Edwin Smith David and Peggy Tanner Lance W. Sealey Emily Smith Teri A. and Robert H. Taylor Randy Seeley Tony and Rosa Smith Robert J. and Bonnie Temple John Sell Robin F. and Jerry W. Snidow Judy and Warren Tenney Foundation Holly A. and Ralph J. Shapira Ann Sonnenfeld Grant and Laurel Teske Constance Shapiro Ellen M. and Ira Lee Sorkin Damian Testa David Shapiro Eric Souare Teresa Todaro in honor Howard and Jill Sharfstein Jonathan Spencer of Phillip Spector Chris F. and Madaline W. Shearer Samuel Stein and Catherine Collautt Toro Foundation Timothy Shepard and Andra Georges Jennifer Steinle Emily Hall Tremaine Samuel Shiflett Brian Steinwurtzel Foundation (EHTF) Sean Shirvan Chief Darrel Stephens Trial.com Foundation, Inc. Bruce Shreves and Chief Darrel Stephens in honor of in honor of David Schultz Jacqueline Farnsworth Shreves Rodney Ellis and Stephen Schulte Gregory Turnbull Delores J. Simmons David H. and Amiee Steven Geoff Turner Julie Simpson Christopher Stone Kelly Turner Daniela Sirkin Jill Strawbridge U.M.R. Foundation Jason Skalski Susanne Stuart Kari Underwood

CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE

The Innocence Project created the Campaign for Justice to raise a reserve and opportunity fund to secure a strong future for the organization and allow us to respond quickly to emerging possibilities for reform.​ As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, the generous support from contributors to the campaign will ensure the Innocence Project can build on our successes and expand our work to free the innocent and reform the criminal justice system.

This year we met the generous $500,000+ $25,000+ challenge grant of $5 million Jason Flom Rodney Ellis and Licia Green-Ellis from the Open Society Foundations, AJ and Poonam Khubani thanks to the following individuals and organizations that made gifts $250,000+ The Margaret and Daniel Loeb - or pledges to support the Campaign Kathryn O. Greenberg Third Point Foundation for Justice, as of April 2017: Thomas H. Lee and Ann G. Tenenbaum Steven Alan Reiss and Mary Mattingly The Frank and Denise Quattrone The Schulte Family $5,000,000+ Foundation; Denise Foderaro Open Society Foundations and Frank Quattrone, Trustees Up to $15,000 Marvin Anderson $3,000,000+ $100,000+ The Lander Family Laura and John Arnold Anonymous (2) Robbins Family Foundation Thomas and Evon Cooper Matthew Rothman and Nancy Katz $1,000,000+ Karen and Gordon DuGan Darrel and Sharon Stephens Frederick and Jutta Benenson Daniel Shuchman and Lori E. Lesser Michael Thompson Renee and John Grisham Marcie Williams Dianne and John Moores $50,000+ Ekow N. Yankah and The Sean Parker Foundation Blavatnik Charitable Foundation Chavi Keeney Nana The Starr Foundation Wilma and Howard Kaye Vered Rabia Andrew and Dorothy Tananbaum Jack and Kristalina Taylor

26 Jane and Tom Vagt Phyllis Watson Charles and Susan Wolcott Richard Valeriani Tyler and Carey Watson in honor of William Wolcott Lilah van Rens Howard Weaver and Barbara Hodgin William and Liz Wolcott Brian Vaughan and Ruth McKee Kevin Weaver in honor of Jason Flom James and Nancy S. Wolf H. Brenda Veney Jeffrey Weitzman Serena I. Wolfe Ventress Family Foundation David and Laurie Welsch Brian Wolfman and Shereen Arent Paul R. Verkuil, Esq. and Richard Werder Wonderful Giving Dr. Judith Rodin Dr. and Mrs. Bradley G. Wertman Steve L. Woodall in honor Sheldon Vidibor and Andrew Whalley of Ann Suich Betty L. Seidmon, PhD Whiteley and Nick Wheeler George M. Woods, MD Dr. Sheela Vinod in memory Susan Whitehead WPO of Shacheendra Vinod Carol and Phil Wilhelm in Marie-Helene and Georges Volait honor of Stephen Schulte Victor Yalom Jack and Terri Vonderloh Allen and Beth Williams Antonio Yarbough Karen E. Wagner and David Caplan James K. Williams, Jr. Marjorie Yasueda Mark and Eleanor Walfish Jennifer and Timothy Williamson Phil Younis Jennifer Walsh Daniel Wilson Eric Yttri Clifford Burton Walter Peter A. Wilson Doug Zacker Jyhwen Wang Steven M. Wilson and Nomi Silverman M.B. & Edna Zale Foundation Sarah F. Warren and Joseph M. Raffaele Allen Wittenauer Constance Zalk The Lynn Warshow Charitable Fund Peter Witting in honor of Benedikt Toth Marc J. Zeitlin Clark Waterfall Arthur G. and Dorothy Zuch

A LEGACY FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE CREATE A LEGACY Members of the Innocence Legacy Society are supporting the work of the Innocence Project for generations to come through their wills, trusts, insurance and retirement FOR FREEDOM plans. We are honored to be a beneficiary and thank them for their generosity in AND JUSTICE. ensuring a future of freedom and justice for all. Contact us at 212-364-5976 or American Sun Yat-Sen Spartacus CRT Kenya Lucas-Matos [email protected] to Anonymous (20) Carolyn S. Maclean* discuss how you can include Beverly Boggs Ann Mandelbaum the Innocence Project in your Gregory Brown Thomas O. Martindale* estate plans. Brett E. Coleman Gerard F. Miller* Bobbi Coletta Eleanore Moore* Steve Cummings William Howie Muir, II* Diane Cvetovich Shelley and Bruce Patton Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson Douglas Powell Tillie Fleischer* Harland Ranney James E. Fleming* Teddi Richman* Dora L. Foster* Lynne C. Rienner John P. Gallagher* Françoise Rothman* Joanne Johnston Gans* Angela Sarno Diane Goodstein* Susan Schindler Darlene Dawn Gray Michael Steele Frans P. Guepin* Toby Stein Alwood E. Harvey, Jr.* Edith Tausner* Chandra Hauptman The Tuma Family Trust Nash Hyon Jane Villon* Rochelle Izen James and Tena Vogt Carol and Timothy Kane Catherine Louise Whitman* Chet Kaufman Gareth Williams Douglas A. Kraner* Marjorie A. Yasueda Jaime Luis Loyola* Constance Zalk 27 * deceased PHOTO: THE ADVOCATE/VERONICA DOMINACH STAFF

Jarrett Adams Michael Coleman Jr. Ana Marie Diaz Maxson Gallo Post-Conviction Litigation Fellow Finance Associate Case Associate Paralegal

Olga Akselrod Ken Colosky Diana Diaz Jonathon Giron Director of Intake and IT Systems Administrator Policy Department Assistant Legal Operations Coordinator Case Evaluation Camilla Conde Jessica Diaz Amshula Jayaram Angela Amel Development Assistant Intake Assistant State Policy Advocate Director of Operations Glinda Cooper Julia DiLaura Robyn Trent Jefferson Elena Aviles Director of Science Assistant Director of Administrative Associate, Document Manager and Research Institutional Giving and Legal Special Initiatives Kareem Belt Ariana Costakes Jeffrey Johnson Forensic Policy Analyst Communications Associate Emily Dindial Office Manager Policy Analyst Bryce Benjet Valencia Craig Masha Katz Baer Staff Attorney Case Management Elisa Espiritu Manager, Individual Giving Database Coordinator Organizational Development Rebecca Brown Specialist, Innocence Network Matthew Scott Kellner Director of Policy Dana Delger Support Unit Paralegal, Strategic Litigation Staff Attorney, Strategic Litigation Candice Carnage M. Chris Fabricant Meredith Kennedy Chief Financial Officer Maddy deLone Director of Strategic Litigation Director, Innocence Network Executive Director (Joseph Flom Special Counsel) Support Unit Paul Cates Director of Communications Keshara DeSousa-Murray Michelle Feldman Shoshanah Kennedy Hobson Intake Assistant Legislative Strategist Special Projects Assistant Sarah Chu Senior Forensic Policy Advocate Chelsea Desruisseaux Susan Friedman Sanghee Kim Case Analyst Staff Attorney Development Manager

28 Sara LaCava Lieberman Vanessa Meterko Jane Pucher Amol Sinha Development Specialist, Research Analyst Staff Attorney State Policy Advocate Innocence Network Support Unit Corey Michon Leslie Rider Melissa Sopher Erika Lago Paralegal Project Specialist Paralegal Human Resources Associate and Board Liaison Patrick Morris Adnan Sultan Shirley LaVarco Finance Associate Linda Riefberg Staff Attorney Paralegal, Strategic Litigation In House Counsel Nina Morrison Karen Thompson Audrey Levitin Senior Staff Attorney Marguerite Sacerdote Staff Attorney Director of Development Policy Associate and External Affairs Peter Neufeld Elizabeth Vaca Co-Director Rana Sahar Executive Assistant Marissa Lowe Paralegal to the Co-Directors Case Analyst Karen Newirth Senior Staff Attorney, Seema Saifee Isabel Vasquez Julia Lucivero Strategic Litigation Staff Attorney Receptionist and Media Relations Manager Operations Assistant Indrani Nicodemus Carlita Salazar Laura Ma Manager of Special Events Assistant Director Marc Vega Assistant Director, Digital Communications Case Analyst and Direct Mail Fundraising Corinne Padavano Director of Human Resources Norah Scanlan Karen Wolff Alicia Maule Network Operations Associate Social Worker Digital Communications Chantá Parker Manager Special Counsel for New Initiatives Barry Scheck Emma Zack Co-Director Case Analyst John McKeown Vanessa Potkin Director of Information Director of Post-Conviction Meryl Schwartz Technology Litigation Deputy Executive Director

29 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MARVIN ANDERSON GORDON DUGAN RODNEY ELLIS Fire Chief, Chief Executive Officer, Harris County Hanover Fire Gramercy Property Trust Commissioner/ Department; ASSISTANT BOARD Innocence Project Former Innocence TREASURER BOARD CHAIR Project Client, Exonerated in 2002

JASON FLOM DENISE FODERARO JOHN GRISHAM President, Trustee, Frank and Denise Author LAVA Records Quattrone Foundation; Advisory Board Member of The National Registry of Exonerations and the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice

JOHN A. KANEB DR. ERIC S. LANDER VERED RABIA Chairman, Director, Broad Institute Partner, HP Hood LLC of MIT and Harvard Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

STEVEN A. REISS CHARLES RAMSEY JANET RENO Partner, Philadelphia Police Former Attorney General Weil, Gotshal Commissioner (Ret.) of the United States & Manges LLP Director Emeritus (2004-2016)

JESSICA A. ROTH MATTHEW ROTHMAN STEPHEN J. SCHULTE Associate Professor, Managing Director, Founding Partner Benjamin N. Cardozo Credit Suisse and Of Counsel, School of Law, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Yeshiva University BOARD VICE CHAIR

AUDREY STRAUSS ANDREW TANANBAUM Former Chief Legal President and CEO, Officer, Alcoa Inc. Capital Business GENERAL COUNSEL Credit, LLC

JACK TAYLOR EKOW N. YANKAH Global Head of Commercial Professor of Law, Real Estate, Pine River Benjamin N. Cardozo B. J. ROSEN Capital Management, L. P. School of Law, Global Co-Head – Middle Market BOARD TREASURER Yeshiva University and Specialty Lending, ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP

30 FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE

Bill & Karen Ackman Laura & John Arnold Fred & Jutta Benenson Thomas & Evon Cooper Sherry & Leo Frumkin Kathryn Greenberg Jeffrey Gural Calvin Johnson Jawed Karim Howard & Wilma Kaye Ivy Beth Lewis Dianne & John Moores Frank Quattrone & Denise Foderaro Daniel Shuchman & Lori Lesser Betty Anne Waters

EXONEREE ADVISORY GROUP

Marvin Anderson Board of Directors Liaison Eddie Lowery Jerry Miller Alan Newton Gerard Richardson Marty Tankleff Innocence Project, Inc. Three-hundred and fifty people 40 Worth Street, Suite 701 in the United States have been New York, NY 10013 exonerated through DNA testing. innocenceproject.org The Innocence Project was facebook.com/innocenceproject involved in more than 180 of twitter.com/innocence instagram.com/innocenceproject those DNA exonerations. Others were helped by Innocence Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Network organizations, private Yeshiva University attorneys and by pro se defendants in a few instances. Donate online at innocenceproject.org