Peter Neufeld was born in Brooklyn into a secular humanist family that was active in the civil rights movement. He co-founded and directs the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He is also a partner in the law firm Cochran, Neufeld and Scheck, which specialises in civil rights and constitutional litigations. He has worked in film production and written stage plays. Actual Innocence: When justice goes wrong and how to make it right, a book he wrote with his law-firm partner Barry Scheck and journalist Jim Dwyer on cases taken on by the Innocence Project, is published by Signet (2001).

How many people have been exonerated by the Innocence Project?

Since we started post-conviction DNA testing in the US, 130 people have been exonerated in total, including 12 people who had been languishing on death row. The Innocence Project was counsel for ...