Barry Scheck
Born	September 19, 1949 (1949-09-19) (age 58) Queens, New York, U.S.

Barry C. Scheck (b. September 19, 1949 in Queens, NY) is an American lawyer. Although he received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder trial, Scheck's more influential legal work lies in his dedication to exposing wrongful convictions as director of the Innocence Project. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Queens (disambiguation) and Queen. ... This article is about the state. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Queens (disambiguation) and Queen. ... This article is about the state. ... Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), commonly known as O. J. Simpson and also just by his initials O.J. and his nickname The Juice, is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels. ... In criminal law, an acquittal is the legal result of a verdict of not guilty, or some similar end of the proceeding that terminates it with prejudice without a verdict of guilty being entered against the accused. ... A miscarriage of justice is primarily the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime that they did not commit. ... The Innocence Project refers to a number of non-profit legal clinics in the United States. ...

Education

Scheck graduated from the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York in 1967. He then went on to receive a B.S. from Yale University in 1971 and a J.D. and M.C.P. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974 The Horace Mann School is an independent college preparatory school in New York City. ... B.S. redirects here. ... Yale redirects here. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... J.D. redirects here; for alternate uses, see J.D. (disambiguation) J.D. is an abbreviation for the Latin Juris Doctor, also called a Doctor of Law or Doctorate of Jurisprudence, and is the law degree typically awarded by an accredited U.S. law school after successfully completing three years... Boalt Hall The UC Berkeley School of Law, commonly referred to as Boalt Hall, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...

Cases He Defended

Barry Scheck was part of the dream team that defended O.J. Simpson. He was associated with clearing in 1999 of Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson who had spent 11 years in prison of wrongful murder convictions.^[1] He was also the lead lawyer who defended British au pair Louise Woodward in her 1997 murder trial. (Despite his considerable legal reputation, his common sense must be questioned because he let the jury be stocked with women in such a case.) More recently, he has been retained by wrongly accused Duke University lacrosse player Reade Seligmann to represent him in a civil lawsuit filed on October 5, 2007 against the city of Durham, North Carolina, its former district attorney, Mike Nifong, and others.^[2] Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), commonly known as O. J. Simpson and also just by his initials O.J. and his nickname The Juice, is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels. ... Ron Williamson was a baseball player who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in 1988 for the rape and murder of Debra Carter in Ada, Oklahoma. ... Louise Woodward (born 28 February 1978, Cheshire, England) is a British former au pair convicted, at the age of 19, of the involuntary manslaughter of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen in Newton, Massachusetts. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. ... The Duke University lacrosse team scandal emerged in April 2006 after Duke Universitys lacrosse team became embroiled in controversy following accusations that three players raped of an escort during a party held at the residence of the team captains. ... Nickname: Location in North Carolina Coordinates: , Country State Counties Durham, Orange, Wake Government  - Mayor Bill Bell Area  - City  94. ... Michael Byron Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is a disbarred North Carolina attorney. ...

Innocence Project

Scheck co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 with Peter Neufeld, also his co-counsel on the O.J. Simpson defense team. The Project is dedicated to the utilization of DNA evidence as a means to exculpate individuals of crimes for which they were wrongfully convicted. As of September 1, 2006, more than 180 such inmates have been freed from incarceration thanks to the Project. The Innocence Project does not use legal technicalities to challenge convictions; the Project only accepts cases in which newly discovered scientific evidence can potentially raise a reasonable doubt as to a criminal defendant's guilt. The Innocence Project refers to a number of non-profit legal clinics in the United States. ... Peter Neufeld is an American lawyer and is most famous as the Cofounder, with Barry Scheck of The Innocence Project. ... Genetic fingerprinting, DNA testing, DNA typing, and DNA profiling are techniques used to distinguish between individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA. Its invention by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

Scheck is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he established the first Innocence Project. He is Director of Clinical Education for the Trial Advocacy Program and the Center for the Study of Law and Ethics, and a former staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York. From 2004-2005 he served as president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In 1996 he received the Robert C. Heeney Award, the "NACDL’s most prestigious award . . . given annually to the one criminal defense attorney who best exemplifies the goals and values of the Association, and the legal profession" (NACDL website "Awards" section). The meaning of the word professor (Latin: [1]) varies. ... The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school of Yeshiva University, located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... The Legal Aid Society is the United States oldest and largest provider of legal services to the indigent. ... The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is an American legal defense organization. ...

Selected bibliography

Scheck, Barry, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer. Actual Innocence. New York: Doubleday, 2000. ISBN 0-385-49341-X.

–––, Peter Neufeld, and Taryn Simon. The Innocents. New York: Umbrage Editions in association with The Innocence Project, 2003. ISBN 1-884167-18-7. [Photographs and Interviews by Taryn Simon; commentary by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck.] The Innocence Project refers to a number of non-profit legal clinics in the United States. ...

References

External links

• After Innocence a documentary film about the Innocence Project, featuring Barry Scheck