Martin Yant has been investigating wrongful convictions since 1978 when he revealed that a corrupt sheriff had framed a man to keep him from running against him in the next election.  What followed was his series on wrongful convictions written for The Columbus Dispatch.  In 1991 he published Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted which The Washington Post named one of the eight most-important books on miscarriages of justice ever published.

Yant left journalism to investigate wrongful convictions as a private investigator. Since then, his investigations have helped free 30 wrongfully convicted individuals resulting in the moniker: ‘‘the most successful one-man innocence project in the country.’’ Yant’s latest book, Justice Denied: True Stories of False Convictions, details some of those cases.

The Georgetown University graduate has written three other investigative books. The film rights to one of them – Rotten to the Core: Crime, Sex and Corruption in Johnny Appleseed’s Hometown – have been purchased by a California producer.

Yant is actively assisting with the investigation of several NWOIC cases.