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The Innocence Project

Year
2006
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

The Innocence Project is an eight-part television drama series created by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast on BBC One on 9 November 2006. The series follows the work of Professor Jon Ford (Lloyd Owen), who sets up The Innocence Project, peopled entirely by a hand-picked group of law students. They take on cases pro bono that no one else will handle, or those that have been forgotten or given up on, working…

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