Peter Neufeld

Peter Neufeld

Peter Neufeld is an American lawyer and is most famous as a cofounder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project. With Scheck and Jim Dwyer he co-authored "Actual Innocence"; with Scheck and Taryn Simon he co-authored "The Innocents".

In 1995 and 2000, he was appointed to serve on the New York State Commission on Forensic Science by then-Governor George Pataki. A partner in the law firm Cochran Neufeld & Scheck, he has represented Abner Louima and others who claimed their civil rights were violated by the police or the government.

In May 2006, Earl Washington Jr., a client of Neufeld's, was awarded $2.25 million after suing the estate of a Virginia State Police investigator. The jury found that the investigator fabricated the confession that caused Washington to be sentenced to death for a 1982 rape and murder.

Education

B.A., 1972, University of Wisconsin-Madison
J.D., 1975, New York University

External links

* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/burden/interviews/neufeld.html Interview] with PBS, December 4, 2002.
*Peter Neufeld. [http://www.defendingscience.org/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=2413 "The (Near) Irrelevance of Daubert to Criminal Justice and Some Suggestions for Reform."] "American Journal of Public Health", June 2005.
* [http://www.law.virginia.edu/home2002/html/news/2006_spr/neufeld.htm Earl Washington Case Shows Reforms to Death Penalty, Criminal Cases Needed, Neufeld Says] . An article based on a talk given by Neufeld at the University of Virginia law school.


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