INIP Hero Award

Presenter – Indiana Innocence Project
Recipient – Dr. Mark Perlin

Indianapolis, Indiana
August 17, 2024

At the launch of a new state-wide Indiana innocence project in Indianapolis on August 17, Cybergenetics Dr. Mark Perlin accepted the INIP Hero 2024 award from the Indiana Innocence Project (INIP).

INIP Director Frances Watson and INIP Board Member Roosevelt Glenn made award presentations. They spoke about the Glenn and Darryl Pinkins exonerations, and the role of Cybergenetics TrueAllele^® Technology. After a combined 40 years in prison for a crime they did not commit, pro bono advanced TrueAllele science reexamined old DNA evidence and set them free.

INIP's Hero awards recognized CBS 48 Hours Producer Judy Rybak and Dr. Perlin as "the catalysts and examples of the need to raise awareness and dollars to tackle [innocence] cases." Rybak and Perlin are part of what INIP calls "historical heroes" of the Indiana Innocence Project.

Watson and Glenn gave the Glenn & Pinkins Award of Honor to the Herbert Simon Family Foundation, which funded the INIP launch. Twenty exonerees lined up before the Dallara IndyCar Factory stage.

Links

Indiana Innocence Project

Save the Date, August 17 - Indiana Innocence Project Launch

Indiana Law supporting newly established Indiana Innocence Project

48 Hours: Guilty until Proven Innocent