A MESSAGE FROM Donate To The Innocence Project & Help Steve Run The NYC Marathon!
I'm honored to be running the New York City Marathon this year in support of the Innocence Project.
Since its founding in 1992, the Innocence Project has used DNA and other scientific advancements to prove wrongful conviction. Through their work, they've helped to free or exonerate more than 250 people who’ve collectively spent over 3,800 years wrongly incarcerated.
During my college years, I was lucky enough to volunteer with Duke Law's branch of the Innocence Project, working on a case involving a wrongfully convicted man in North Carolina. Through this experience, I had the privilege to meet LaMonte Armstrong. LaMonte was wrongfully convicted of murder, and he spent 17 years in prison before being exonerated in 2012. He passed away just months after I met him in 2019.
Looking back, I feel indignant and heartbroken that he didn’t get to spend more time outside with his family, and instead spent 17 of his remaining 24 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. I'm also grateful that there were people like the lawyers and staff at the Innocence Project who took on the hard, thorough work to ensure that his case was reviewed and to ultimately a him exonerated.
It’s organizations like the Innocence Project that remind me to have hope, that we can collectively build something better. I hope you'll donate to help them ensure that wrongfully incarcerated people have the chance to see freedom. Your donation will help create more fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone, and it will help me run the New York City Marathon.
Thank you :)
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