Connecticut Innocence Project

The Connecticut Innocence Project is an office of the State of Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services. The mission of the Connecticut Innocence Project / Post Conviction Unit is to investigate cases of wrongly convicted individuals and seek their exoneration. The Connecticut Innocence Project of the Division of Public Defender Services for the State of Connecticut seeks to assist indigent individuals who are convicted of crimes for which they are innocent. In order to get the assistance - you must be indigent; in other words, you must be unable to afford to hire your own attorney, you must be factually innocent of the crime for which you have already been convicted. “Factually innocent” means that you are not the person who committed the crime, you must be serving a Connecticut sentence, your sentence must include at least a ten-year period of incarceration, you must be no less than five years from your estimated release date, there must be some new evidence in your case which would establish your innocence.