What is the mission of the Innocence Project?

A) to identify effective witnesses from those who will tell the police what they think the police want to hear
B) to assist wrongfully convicted prisoners by proving them not guilty through DNA testing
C) to study some of the challenges facing a police officer when questioning an eyewitness
D) to determine if the witness could have perceived what he or she claimed from that distance or vantage point
E) to prove the innocence of all prisoners on death row


B

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