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 Noted criminal defense attorney Peter Neufeld discussed the Innocence Project, which uses modern biotechnology to challenge false convictions, during a Living In History lecture on Thursday evening, Feb. 28, in Memorial Hall.
Neufeld is coauthor, with Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer, of “Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted.”
He also is cofounder, with Scheck, of the Innocence Project at Cardoza Law School, Yeshiva University. The Innocence Project is a legal clinic that challenges false convictions through the deployment of DNA evidence.
The lecture series is sponsored by the DuPont and Alison Scholars, and cosponsored by the Center for Black Culture, the Department of English, the University Honors Program, the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Political Science and International Relations, and the Women's Studies Program.
The next lecture will be by writer Thomas Glave, who will discuss his book “Whose Song?” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in Room 127 of Memorial Hall.
Glave, the recipient of the O. Henry Award for Fiction in 1997, has contributed extensively to short stories collections featuring black and gay writers.
For additional information on the Living In History series, see http://www.udel.edu/honors/events.html#spec1.
Photograph by Kathy Flickinger
March 1, 2002
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