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Attorneys from the Exoneration Project, a pro-bono program at the University of Chicago Law School, picked up Hood's case.

They set up a Web site, hosted by the Exoneration Project, to draw attention to Hood's case, sought signatories for his petition for clemency, and promoted their online campaign with the Twitter hashtag #SendHoodHome.

Felicity Gerry QC, head of the Indigenous Justice and Exoneration Project, said there was logic in waiting for a royal commission report under normal circumstances, but the high rate of Indigenous incarceration, high recidivism and issues with youth detention meant these circumstances were not normal.

"The next phase in the innocence movement is mass exonerations," said Joshua Tepfer of the Exoneration Project, a pro-bono legal clinic that has represented 31 defendants railroaded by Watts and his crew.

It is impossible to know if requiring that all 12 jurors agree would have spared Stewart or anyone else from being sent to prison, but prior to Stewart's exoneration, Innocence Project New Orleans found ten cases in which a non-unanimous jury convicted someone who was later freed.

The states with the most exonerations last year were Texas, New York and Illinois, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, a project of the University of Michigan Law School.

The case also nearly triples the record for the most time that passed between a prisoner's release, which occurred on May 13 , 1982 and his exoneration, according to the project's lawyers.

They largely owe their exoneration to the Innocence Project, a program based at Cardozo Law School in New York and run by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, the authors, together with Jim Dwyer, a columnist for The Daily News of New York, of "Actual Innocence".

That part of the story constitutes Making A Murderer's first episode, but the show's title – not to mention the fact that every contribution from Avery is spoken down what sounds suspiciously like a prison phone line – betrays the fact that this is not the straightforward exoneration story the Innocence Project was hoping for when it started looking into Avery's case.

Faulty eyewitness identification (ID) has contributed to the wrongful conviction of hundreds of innocent men and women, playing a role in 72%% of DNA exoneration cases litigated by the Innocence Project (Innocence Project 2015).

Such testing has played a role in 240 exonerations, according to the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School, which represents Mr. Osborne.