Cincinnati Center Launches ​“Innocence Week”

The University of Cincinnati’s Center for Law and Justice will be inau­gu­rat­ing its Innocence Week begin­ning September 14^th. The week of activ­i­ties cen­tered on wrong­ful con­vic­tions will include a pre­sen­ta­tion by Scott Hornoff, a police offi­cer from Rhode Island who was wrong­ly con­vict­ed of mur­der before being freed on the basis of DNA, pre­sen­ta­tions by DNA expert Barry Scheck, and per­for­mances of the award-win­ning play The Exonerated. The Center for Law and Justice is best known for launch­ing the Ohio Innocence Project in 2003. The project seeks to exon­er­ate wrong­ly impris­oned inmates by using new infor­ma­tion and tech­nolo­gies such as DNA iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. ​“The Innocence Project is tru­ly a pas­sion we have. When you are of (finan­cial) means, you can hire care­ful rep­re­sen­ta­tion. But when you are poor or not knowl­edge­able about the law, you are not rep­re­sent­ed as well,” said Lois Rosenthal, who along with her hus­band have made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the Justice Center. (Cincinnati Enquirer, September 7, 2004) See Innocence.