Case profiles

The Arizona Justice Project has screened thousands of cases involving claims of wrongful conviction and manifest injustice. It is our mission to help assure that Arizona’s prisons are not housing those actually innocent or otherwise victims of manifest injustice.

Drayton Witt

Case Profile Drayton Witt Case dismissed with prejudice Drayton was convicted in 2002 of second-degree murder after being accused of shaking his nearly 5 month

Larry Youngblood

Case Profile Larry Youngblood Exonerated through post-conviction DNA testing In 2000, Larry Youngblood was the first person in Arizona to be exonerated through post-conviction DNA

Second chance for juveniles

Case Profile Second Chance for Juveniles Everyone has the capacity to change In 2012, the Supreme Court decided a landmark case in Miller v Alabama, holding