Amanda Knox, wrongfully imprisoned in Italy for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, credits Boise State professor Greg Hampikian for his DNA expertise that helped overturn her conviction and ultimately led to her exoneration in 2015 after multiple trials.

BOISE — Greg Hampikian, director of the Idaho Innocence Project, sat in a cramped, cluttered office in Boise State’s University’s science building on Friday. His long white hair flowing, he ate his salad with chopsticks while employees worked in the lab.

Idaho is one of 15 states in the country that doesn’t provide any sort of compensation to people who are wrongfully convicted of a crime.