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Peter Neufeld was born in Brooklyn into a secular humanist family that was active in the civil rights movement. He co-founded and directs the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He is also a partner in the law firm Cochran, Neufeld and Scheck, which specialises in civil rights and constitutional litigations. He has worked in film production and written stage plays. Actual Innocence: When justice goes wrong and how to make it right, a book he wrote with his law-firm partner Barry Scheck and journalist Jim Dwyer on cases taken on…