In 1992 Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of law in New York the Innocence Project was created. The innocence Project was made to help innocent people who are in prison and could be proven innocent with DNA testing. This project helps everyone in the United States that has been wrongly accused. There are many cases that show how the innocence project is achieving their goal. One of these cases is David Johns Bryson case. On September 23, 1982 a woman was leveeing work to her car in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. When she reached her car she was assaulted by a man and she was forced into the passenger sat of the car he then sat in the driver seat and drove off. He was beating her as he was driving and forced her to do oral sex on him. Eventually he stopped the car tore the women’s shirt and blindfolded her with it. The man then raped her vaginally and anally. She then bit the attacker’s penis, causing him to scream. She jumped from the car and ran to a nearby home, where she ran to a nearby home and called the police. On that night David Johns Bryson went to the hospital because of an injury to his penis. After his visited …show more content…
Mary Jane Burton a State forensic analyst stated at Burnette’s trial that she examined pubic hairs from the rape kit and the victim’s sheets. The analyst said that one hair was coherent with Burnette others with the victim there were hair that were coherent with neither Burnette nor the victims. She also established that the semen found in the victim had blood type A antigens. She stated the victim was type A however Burnette was a non-secretor this meant his blood type could not be identified from bodily fluids. Burnette stated he was at the bar from 11 p.m. to approximately 2 a.m. on that night. His blind arthritic grandmother confirmed that he arrived home around 2 a.m. The jury found Burnette guilty of rape and burglary, and he was sentenced to 25 years in