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Peter J. Neufeld

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American attorney and law professor who co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 with Barry Scheck at Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law, building a legal clinic that uses DNA testing to exonerate the wrongfully convicted.

Facts
Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1950 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. 1
Nationality
American 2
Defining Contribution
Co-founded the Innocence Project, using DNA testing to secure over 200 exonerations of the wrongfully convicted. 3
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, And Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted (2000, with Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer) 1
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Institutions Founded

Neufeld co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 with Barry Scheck at Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law.

Source Innocence Project: About
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Peter Neufeld
Wikipedia
  • Infobox, birth date
    July 17, 1950
  • Early life section
    Neufeld was born in Brooklyn, New York City
  • Bibliography section
    Scheck, Neufeld & J. Dwyer, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, And Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted, Doubleday, February 2000
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2. Wikidata: Peter J. Neufeld
Wikidata Q7176072, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
3. Innocence Project: About
  • About Us page, founder credit
    Founded in 1992 by visionary attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform.
  • Institutions Founded: Innocence Project, About Us page, second founder credit
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