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Jerry Miller and the Innocence Project |
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May 4, 2007
Jerry Miller served 25 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. When Jerry Miller was 22, he was picked up by police after an officer said he resembled a sketch of a Chicago rapist. Based on that misidentification, Miller was convicted and served 25 years before being released last year on parole, forced to register as a sex-offender.
Today, Miller represents the 200th person exonerated by post-conviction DNA testing, with the help of the Innocence Project: "a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice."
"I can't help that it happened. You know what I'm saying? That it happened, that's uncontrollable. But to make it out of it, that's the blessing, you know. To survive it." Miller explained in his interview with Bill Moyers.
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.
"It's impossible to put ourselves in his shoes, but we all have a moral obligation to learn from these exonerations and prevent anyone else from enduring this tragedy," said Peter Neufeld, Co-Director of the Innocence Project.
Read a special blog essay by Barry Scheck.
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