"I don't dispute for a second that happened," Protess, who founded the Medill Innocence Project, said in a recent interview..... "It is a technique we will use infrequently." The behavior is acceptable..."if there is no other way to get the story and there is a higher social purpose, a higher social good." Questions about journalistic ethics add another layer of controversy for a professor who is both ostracized by his university and lauded in student evaluations... last week more than 30 journalists and professors from around the country came to Protess' defense by asking for an "independent investigation" of the...