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Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.
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Subtopic: Wrongful convictions

Number of Awards: 59
Total Amount Awarded: $44,756,615

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2013 Pre-feedback eyewitness statements: Proposed inoculant and antidote for feedback effects on evaluations of eyewitness testimony NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2013-IJ-CX-0010 $25,000 Closed
2012 2012 North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission grant application for the NIJ Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program. NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts NC 2012-DY-BX-K001 $761,111 Closed
2012 FY12 Postconviction New York City Joint Working Group on Postconviction DNA-Testing NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services NY 2012-DY-BX-K003 $1,256,344 Closed
2012 MD Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State of Maryland MD 2012-DY-BX-K005 $510,324 Closed
2012 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2012-DY-BX-K004 $589,638 Closed
2012 SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State Appellate Defender Office MI 2012-MU-BX-K012 $429,087 Closed
2011 A Proposal for Social Science Research on Wrongful Conviction NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations American University DC 2009-IJ-CX-4110 $450,858 Closed
2011 California DNA Assistance Program NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2011-DY-BX-K001 $2,239,121 Closed
2011 Colorado Justice Review Project II NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Attorney General, Colorado CO 2011-DY-BX-K005 $1,208,077 Closed
2011 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program - Fiscal Year 2010 NIJ FY 11 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Washington State Patrol WA 2010-DY-BX-K404 $576,631 Closed
2011 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program for the State of Louisiana NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Louisiana Department of Justice LA 2011-DY-BX-K003 $1,152,958 Closed
2011 Reviewing cases in Minnesota where DNA is dispositive of innocence. NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program JUDICARY COURTS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA MN 2011-DY-BX-K002 $658,348 Closed
2011 The Connecticut Postconviction DNA Testing Program 2011 NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Public Defender Services CT 2011-DY-BX-K007 $1,392,176 Closed
2011 Wisconsin Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program 2011 NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance WI 2011-DY-BX-K006 $778,329 Closed
2010 MD Postconviction DNA Testing Assiatance Program NIJ FY 10 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governors Office of Crime Control And Prevention MD 2010-DY-BX-K006 $48,298 Closed
2010 Minnesota Justice Coalition: Postconviction DNA Testing Initiative NIJ FY 10 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Judiciary Courts of the State of Minnesota MN 2010-DY-BX-K007 $253,534 Closed
2010 Post-Conviction DNA Testing Assistance
Program - FFY'10 		NIJ FY 10 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Washington Department of Commerce WA 2010-DY-BX-K004 $576,631 Closed
2010 Postconviction DNA Testing (PDNAT) Assistance Program NIJ FY 10 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2010-DY-BX-K005 $687,448 Closed
2009 A Proposal for Social Science Research on Wrongful Conviction NIJ FY 09 ORE Social Science Research on Exoneration George Mason University VA 2009-IJ-CX-0110 $589,315 Closed
2009 Colorado Justice Review Project NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program ATTORNEY GENERAL COLORADO CO 2009-DN-BX-K242 $1,186,781 Closed
2009 Maryland Postconviction DNA Analysis NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governors Office of Crime Control And Prevention MD 2009-DN-BX-K241 $307,000 Closed
2009 Minnesota Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Judiciary Courts of the State of Minnesota MN 2009-DN-BX-K239 $859,527 Closed
2009 North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission grant application for Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State of North Carolina NC 2009-DN-BX-K247 $566,980 Closed
2009 Orleans Parish Postconviction DNA Testing Project NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Louisiana Department of Justice LA 2009-DN-BX-K245 $1,376,206 Closed
2009 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2009-DY-BX-K240 $2,500,000 Closed