Madhu Kumar is an experienced scientist who recently served as a scientific advisor for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Outside of work, Madhu Kumar serves as a mentor for the New England Innocence Project.
The New England Innocence Project is an organization that provides organized pro bono representation for people who claim to have been wrongfully convicted. A relatively recent project, The New England Innocence Project was founded in 1997 by a group of lawyers who felt passionately about the innocent people who had no representation in court. Along with providing this support, the New England Innocence Project works to raise awareness of false conviction.
In doing so, the New England Innocence Project also confronts the main question: how does wrongful conviction happen? On its website, the project goes into detail on this topic. The causes include eyewitness misidentification, unvalidated forensic science, false confessions, snitch (informant) testimony, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and poor defense representation. To learn more about each specific cause, visit www.newenglandinnocence.org/causes-of-wrongful-convictions.
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