Need Help?: Criteria for and AIDWYC Case

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All applicants must meet AIDWYC's criteria to qualify to have their cases reviewed.

• The conviction must have been for a serious crime. A substantial majority of AIDWYC cases involve convictions for murder. Convictions for other serious crimes can only be reviewed where resources permit.

• All appeals must have been exhausted. AIDWYC will not consider a case which has not exhausted all appeals except in extremely rare circumstances.

• Applicants must be innocent of the crime for which they were convicted.

Applicants whose cases do not fit AIDWYC's criteria will be notified as soon as possible.