Peter Neufeld is co-founder of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted. This non-fiction book grew out of the cases and stories of the Innocence Project. In 1988, Peter, together with Barry Scheck, became involved in studying and litigating issues concerning the use of forensic DNA testing. Their work not only shaped the course of case law across the country but helped lead to an influential study by the National Academy of Sciences on forensic DNA testing, as well as important state and federal legislation setting standards for the use of DNA testing.