The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project

The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (MAIP) provides investigative and legal assistance to incarcerated people who have been wrongly convicted. MAIP, which was founded in 2000, has a permanent legal staff of two and is run through a network of attorneys and law students throughout Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Under the supervision of professors and local attorneys, students investigate claims of innocence from prisoners in cases involving DNA evidence or other newly discovered evidence of innocence. Pro bono attorneys then take over those cases in which the students have found a potentially demonstrable claim of innocence.

In 2008, the Virginia Law Foundation provided $13,000.00 in grant support which will be used to improve the quality of their investigations, by hiring private investigators to assist law students with difficult cases.

Please visit their website for more information, and to see some cases in which they have helped to exonerate the wrongly convicted:
http://www.exonerate.org/