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    The Florida Bar Foundation > News and Publications > Stories of Justice > Innocence Project of Florida

Innocence Project of Florida

Justice for the Wrongfully Convicted

Through its Improvements in the Administration of Justice
Grant Program, The Florida Bar Foundation has funded
the Innocence Project of Florida since 2004. The project has
helped free 15 innocent men while advocating for systemic
changes to prevent future wrongful convictions.
  • Innocence project client and lawyer

    Innocence Project of Florida sees three men freed in one year

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on March 1, 2019

    After spending a combined 76 years incarcerated, three Florida men regained their freedom with the help of Innocence Project of Florida (IPF). Dean McKee, Dwight Dubose and Jules Letemps were released recently. IPF receives the majority of its funding from The Florida Bar Foundation, which awarded it $380,000 through an

  • A decade of partnership puts an end to 275 years behind bars

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 21, 2016

    When James Bain embraced his sisters on the steps of the Polk County, Fla., courthouse on Dec. 17, 2009, as a free man for the first time in 35 years, he had served more time in prison than anyone ever exonerated through DNA testing. On March 4, 2016, 42 years

  • male legal aid client

    Andre Bryant becomes 15th man exonerated by Innocence Project of Florida

    Posted by Jessica Brown on October 2, 2015

    Andre Bryant was reunited with his family Oct. 1 after spending eight years in prison for a robbery he didn’t commit, making him the 15th innocent person to win freedom thanks to the Innocence Project of Florida. Using post-conviction DNA testing, the Innocence Project of Florida has worked since 2003

  • Innocence Project of Florida achieves its 14th exoneration

    Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2014

    Cheydrick Britt goes free after more than nine years of wrongful imprisonment When the State Attorney’s Office for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit dropped all charges against Cheydrick Britt Nov. 20, he became the 14th Floridian freed as a result of DNA evidence through the work of the Innocence Project of

  • Foundation helps fund newly formed Florida Innocence Commission

    Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2010

    by Nancy Kinnally   When James Bain of Lake Wales, Fla., was released at the age of 54 after serving 35 years in prison for a rape and kidnapping he did not commit, his smile said it all. Bain, who has the unfortunate distinction of having been imprisoned longer than

  • Disproving guilt: The Innocence Project of Florida helps the wrongly convicted

    Posted by Jessica Brown on January 1, 2009

    All Alan Crotzer wanted was for someone to listen, but no one did. Having served two years in prison for armed robbery, Crotzer had a record that made the prosecutor’s case more convincing. He would spend more than 24 years in prison, wrongly convicted of rape, burglary, robbery and aggravated

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