Barry Scheck
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"Barry C. Scheck" is an United States/American lawyer. He received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, helping to win an acquittal in the O. J. Simpson murder case/highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

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There can be no question about it. It was in bad faith, and it is arrogant.

What he did in this case is a profile in courage.

We knew it was bad.

These were crimes that upset the community, ... There was pressure to solve them and there were, I think, 'unfortunate' eyewitness techniques used.

I don't think his name even came up.

Is that it happened about three weeks ago -- prior to February 4.

This is a case of law enforcement going bad and, in the final analysis, law enforcement corrected it.

This is one of the most extraordinary cases in the annals of criminal justice in our town.

I don't know what went wrong. Because I look at this evidence and this is an inconceivable verdict to me.