Authors John Grisham, Dennis Fritz, Scott Turow to Speak at Miss. Innocence Project Dinner Fundraiser

Monday Oct. 22, Authors John Grisham, Dennis Fritz and Scott Turow will attend a dinner together in order to raise money for the Mississippi Innocence Project at the Ole Miss law school. The Fundraiser Dinner is to support the Mississippi Innocence Project for wrongly convicted.
John Grisham, Dennis Fritz and Scott Turow have supported similar projects in law schools across the country.
John Grisham author, "The Innocent Man," profiling a man wrongfully convicted and freed years later with the help of several attorneys and the Innocence Project.
Dennis Fritz author of "Journey Toward Justice". Thanks to help from the Innocence Project of New York, Fritz was granted a new trial, found innocent and freed from prison in 1999.
Scott Turow is the author of "Presumed Innocent". All three books are a Bestseller on Amazon.com

The Mississippi Innocence Project was established with initial funding by Grisham and Columbus attorney Wilbur Colom, a graduate of Antioch Law School. Tucker Carrington, director of the Mississippi Innocence Project, said he expects 300 to 350 guests to attend the dinner.

Cedric Willis of Jackson, Miss. is also scheduled to speak. Willis was convicted in 1997 of murder and robbery and sentenced to life in prison despite the fact that DNA evidence excluded him as the perpetrator. Thanks to help from the Innocence Project of New Orleans, Willis was granted a new trial, found innocent and freed from prison in 2006.

The Innocence Project is currently a network of law schools, journalism schools and public defender offices. To prevent future wrongful convictions, they work with legislators and law enforcement on local, state and national levels to conduct research and training and propose a vast range of solutions for them.
The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic that was founded in 1992 at Yeshiva University. The project is dedicated to helping wrongfully convicted people by the means of DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
In the United States, 208 individuals have had their convictions overturned due to DNA testing, including 15 who served on death row.
Each inmate served an average of 12 years in prison before they were found not guilty.