The University of Illinois Springfield’s Downstate Innocence Project has been awarded another federal grant to help investigate cases where people might have been unjustly convicted of crimes.
The $249,319 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will go toward clearing cases that can’t be resolved through DNA testing.
The Downstate Innocence Project last year received a $687,448 federal grant to investigate cases in which DNA testing is involved.
The grant was featured in an September 22, 2011, article in The State Journal-Register.
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