Centurion helps free wrongfully convicted people. The science of DNA has been of immense help in freeing the innocent from prison. However, despite the number of exonerations achieved utilizing DNA evidence, most claims of innocence do not have a scientific element available that would be probative of innocence. There are countless numbers of innocent men and women in prison whose cases require a complete field investigation and expert post-conviction legal assistance to help them obtain their rightful freedom. That’s where Centurion steps in. They take on the hard cases, the ones others leave behind. They re-investigate the crime, uncovering lost evidence, finding new evidence, convincing a coerced witness to come forward with the truth, overturning false confessions, and sometimes even finding the real criminal. That’s how they help to free the innocent behind bars.
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