In early 2016, Innocence Project founders Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck received a call from an unusual source: Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, who was reaching out about a possible series.
At the time, true-crime docuseries like Making a Murderer were finding a rabid audience on Netflix. Neufeld and Scheck's organization, devoted to exonerating individuals wrongly convicted, seemed ripe to yield dramatic stories.
The two attorneys had already fielded and dismissed some show ideas they considered either outlandish or inconsistent with their ideals, but Emanuel's pitch came with the promise of creative control and eventually led to the Netflix miniseries The Innocence Files.
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