we found about 13 wrongful convictions,
people having been in jail for decades,
and we released all of them.
It was the most in New York history.
The program is still going on,
and they're up to 21 releases now --
21 people who spent
significant time behind bars.
So let me tell you about a couple other
of the men and women
that I interacted with
in the course of this program.
One name is Roger Logan.
Mr. Logan had been in jail 17 years
and wrote me a letter.
It was a simple letter; it basically said,
"Professor Sullivan, I'm innocent.
I've been framed.
Can you look at my case?"
At first blush, the case seemed
like it was open and shut,
but my research had shown
that single-witness identification cases
are prone to error.
It doesn't mean he was innocent,
it just means we ought to look
a little bit closer at those cases.