- Larry Mayes Year of Incident: 1980 Jurisdiction: Indiana Sentence: 80 years Year of Exoneration: 2001 Sentence Served: 18.5 years (21 aggregate) June 15, 2002 108 EXONERATED The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992, is a non-profit legal clinic. This Project only handles cases where postconviction DNA testing of ...www.innocenceproject.org