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IPF Honored with Gideon Award

The Innocence Project of Florida recently was honored by Florida's 15th Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender with the 2013 Gideon Award. Read more.

Steppin' Out Celebration

Betty Anne Waters honored with Frank Lee Smith Innocence Award.

Betty Anne Waters was honored on April 5th with the Frank Lee Smith Innocence Award at Steppin' Out with the Innocence Project of Florida 2013 for her inspirational work to correct injustices caused by wrongful convictions. Her life inspired the movie Conviction. We celebrated our 10th anniversary along with several exonerees, their families and more than 220 friends, supporters and sponsors. Read more and see highlights from the evening.

Unlock the Truth

Meet two Florida DNA exonerees, William Dillon and James Bain, in IPF's video, Unlock the Truth.

Recent Blog Posts

Court Orders Review of 50+ Brooklyn Murder Cases May 23rd, 2013

Often times, wrongful convictions stem from shady police and detective practices, such as contaminated confessions and false eyewitness identification. Such practices are difficult to reform, especially when the public turns a blind eye to such corruptions. These issues have reached... Read More >

Celebrating Freedom and Justice with Orlando Boquete May 22nd, 2013

May 23, 2013 marks the seventh anniversary of Orlando Boquete’s exoneration. We would like to take a moment to celebrate not only Orlando’s freedom but the freedom restored to all exonerees. For many wrongly imprisoned, returning to life on the outside... Read More >

MAYDAY: A Call of the Innocent May 21st, 2013

Mayday, mayday, mayday! This universal call is used to signal and aid individuals who are in distress and seeking assistance. The term is mainly used by marines and aviators; however, in some countries it is also used by law enforcement, fire departments... Read More >

New DNA Testing Reveals Florida Death Row Inmate’s Innocence May 16th, 2013

DNA helped send Clemente Javier “Shorty” Aguirre to death row in 2006 for the murder of two Altamonte Springs neighbors. Now a team of attorneys have used a new round of DNA testing to prove the innocence Aguirre has been... Read More >