[pabianice]

"Northwestern let David Protess run amok. They supported him and the work of his students. They backed him until he was caught in a scandal involving another so-called wrongfully convicted man, Anthony McKinney. McKinney was convicted of a brutal murder. Protess and his team tried to get his conviction overturned. In the end Protess left Northwestern under a cloud. McKinney died in prison.

"Chicago's legal community does not want this stain on their reputation. Lawyers on both sides of this case were just as involved as David Protess in perverting justice.

"There is something more at stake. Innocence Projects and the law firm business model built around them. If Protess goes down it would deal a severe blow to this industry. Courts, prosecutors, or even law enforcement may start scrutinizing their methodology. Innocence Projects and the lawyers who feed off of them do not want and cannot afford that kind of scrutiny."

http://www.chicagonow.com/interesting-chicago/2014/11/anthony-porter-and-alstory-simon-do-not-believe-the-narrative/

[pabianice]

David Protess, Northwestern Professor, Removed From Investigative Journalism Class"

Protess is the prototypical Liberal.

[LS]

This movie was really disturbing. We all have it drummed into us about “wrongfully convicting” someone-—but this was a two-fer, letting the real murderer out and wrongfully convicting someone in his place.