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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2016, file photo, Darryl Howard wipes away tears as he and his lawyer, Barry Scheck, co-director of the based Innocence Project, listen as Judge Orlando Hudson threw out Howard's double-murder conviction after reviewing new DNA evidence, in Durham, N.C. Scheck was the lawyer who introduced DNA science to jurors as he attacked police methods of evidence collection to undermine the prosecution's forensic evidence case. He and fellow O.J. Simpson lawyer Peter Neufeld co-founded The Innocence Project that uses DNA evidence to exonerate wrongly convicted prisoners. The project has helped overturn hundreds of convictions. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP, File)