Karen L. Daniel — longtime clinical professor at Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions — graduated from Harvard Law School in 1981, when there were no established legal clinics devoted to exonerating wrongfully convicted people.The first DNA exoneration would not happen until 1989. The Innocence Project in New York at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the first innocence project affiliated with a law school, was founded in 1992.Daniel, who is retiring in August, began her legal career working at the …