"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/
Protess is the prototypical Liberal.
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.