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Awardee Name: Committee for Public Counsel Services

Number of Awards: 10
Total Amount Awarded: $5,388,881

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 Massachusetts Collaborative Review of Cases Involving Hair and Serological Analysis FY24 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES MA 15PBJA-24-GG-01938-POST $1,523,688 Open
2024 Massachusetts Innocence Collaboration and Data Informed Expansion. FY24 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES MA 15PBJA-24-GG-02897-WRNG $599,791 Open
2022 Massachusetts Statewide Systemic Capacity Building Project FY 2022 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES MA 15PBJA-22-GG-03898-WRNG $497,352 Open
2020 Massachusetts Innocence and Conviction Integrity Collaboration FY 2020 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES MA 2020-DY-BX-0003 $497,229 Open
2020 Massachusetts Innocence Investigation and Litigation Collaboration FY 2020 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES MA 2020-FA-BX-0001 $349,351 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Massachusetts Collaboration to Correct Wrongful Convictions BJA FY 18 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES MA 2018-FA-BX-0004 $249,966 Closed
2017 Massachusetts Microscopic Hair Analysis Review Project FY 2017 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES MA 2017-DY-BX-0001 $511,566 Closed
2015 Massachusetts and New England Innocence Collaboration BJA FY 15 Wrongful Conviction Review Program Committee for Public Counsel Services MA 2015-FA-BX-0002 $251,671 Closed
2012 CPCS Improving Indigent Defense Delivery Systems BJA FY 12 Answering Gideon's Call: Improving Indigent Defense Delivery Systems Program Committee for Public Counsel Services MA 2012-DB-BX-0010 $346,963 Closed
2009 Wrongful Conviction Unit Project BJA FY 09 Wrongful Prosecution Review Program: Representation of Wrongfully Convicted Defendants in Post-Conviction Claims of Innocense Committee for Public Counsel Services MA 2009-FA-BX-0037 $561,304 Closed