shawn armbrust. [applause] >> good morning. thank you so much or including me in such a terrific event with such terrific organizations. it's an honor to be here today. and i hope i'm able to give all of you a sense of how the innocence of movement collectively has broken through power, to not only freed hundreds of innocent people but also to begin the process of achieving real systemic change. i'm the executive director of the mid-atlantic innocence project which works to prevent and correct the conviction of innocent people in d.c., maryland and virginia. using dna and other evidence of innocence. we have 321 innocent people and helped past 11 laws that would help prevent or make it easier to correct wrongful convictions. is one of the high success rates in the nation, and we're doing it with a fraction of the resources we need. at a fraction of the resources is with some of our peer organizations but we are part of a larger innocence network. with, which has more than 60 separate organizations that all work to get innocent

shawn armbrust. is [ applause ] >> good morning. thank you so much for including me in such a terrific event with such terrific organizizations. it's an honor to be here today and i hope i'm able to give all of you a sense of how the innocence movement collectively has brown throuken through powe only free hun deads of innocent people but given the process of achieving real systemic change. i'm the executive director of the mid-atlantic innocence project which works to prevent and correct the conviction of innocent people in d.c., maryland and virginia using dna and other evidence of innocence. we've freed 21 innocent people and helped pass 11 laws that would help prevent or make it easier to correct wrongful convictions. it's one of the highest success rates in the nation, and we're doing it with a fraction of the resources we need. and a fraction of the resources of some of our peer organizations. but we're part of a large erp innocence network which has more than 60 separate organizations that all work to get innocent people out