The Alaska Innocence Project's Mission Is:

• To identify, investigate, and exonerate individuals who have been wrongly convicted in the state of Alaska.
• To provide educational opportunities for advocates and for the public that foster a culture that champions the defense of the innocent.
• To suggest and implement policies, practices and reforms that will prevent wrongful convictions and hasten the identification and release of innocent persons.

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To qualify for assistance from the Alaska Innocence Project an individual must meet the following criteria. Meeting these criteria does not mean the Alaska Innocence Project will accept a case, only that the case will be considered for assistance. The final decision to accept or not accept a case shall lies solely with the Board of Directors of the Alaska Innocence Project, and the Board may make that decision for any reason or reasons it sees fit.

• Individual is incarcerated.
• Individual has at least two years remaining on sentence.
• Factually, the client is actually innocent.
• Evidence available which may prove actual innocence.
• Individual has exhausted all court actions under the facts of the criminal conviction upon which the individual is incarcerated where the individual has appointed counsel as a matter of right.
• Notwithstanding numbers 1 through 5, the Board of the Alaska Innocence Project may accept any case at its discretion.