The OIP is part of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project, which is based in the UC College of Law. Two Tulsa, Oklahoma brothers, Malcom Scott and Corey Atchison, have been fighting for more than 20 years to prove their innocence after they were wrongfully convicted for separate murders. Since Clarences release, Melinda Elkins has relocated to southwest Ohio in the town of Eaton, and today, she continues to volunteer with the Ohio Innocence Project, because of the impact her experience had on her life. She also helped get the OIP involved in working on Clarences case in 2003. The central figure in Dateline NBCs story will be his wife, Melinda, who worked tirelessly on Clarences behalf during the time he was in prison.
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Many of the efforts to free Elkins were documented by a film crew, which will help in telling the story of his long road to freedom. For two years, they worked on Elkins case, for which he was serving a life sentence in a 1998 murder/rape case in Barberton, Ohio. UC College of Law students volunteer to work for the OIP, under the direction of faculty director Mark Godsey. In December of 2005, the OIP helped free Clarence Elkins after he had spent seven years in prison for a crime that DNA evidence helped prove he did not commit. "Dateline NBC" will feature the work of the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP), based out of the UC College of Law, in its Sunday evening program, set to begin locally at 7 p.m. Students and faculty from the University of Cincinnati who worked to get a wrongfully convicted man freed from prison will see their efforts receive national exposure Sunday night, March 11, on the NBC television network.
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Murphy and Scott also appeared on MSNBCs Live with Craig Melvin before the Dateline episode aired. The episode featured interviews with Murphy and others connected to the cases.
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