To make a difference for those wrongly convicted, Lubbock Cooper High School students are selling T-shirts promoting their forensics class with all proceeds going to the Innocence Project of Texas.
Sarah Shutic, a forensics teacher at LCHS, said this is an ongoing issue in Lubbock.
“We’ve had big cases here like the Timothy Cole case where people are wrongly convicted and only through forensics are set free,“ Shutic said.
The Innocence Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to freeing wrongly convicted people through DNA testing, something students at LCHS have learned all school year.
Bailey Pruitt, a student at LCHS, said students are getting really enthusiastic about selling the forensics class T-shirts.
“People my age are all getting together to make this happen and it just shows that we can really make a difference,“ Pruitt said.
The students have sold more than 40 shirts, and plan to make this an annual event for giving back to the Innocence Project.
