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A hearing is currently taking place in the case of Anthony McKinney, a man who's been in prison since 1978 for murder that Northwestern's Medill Innocence Project says he didn't commit. While Cook County prosecutors have agreed that McKinney should get a new trial, but have battled the Project to gain access to the students' notes, grades, and other information claiming the work was done by students for good grades and have, thus, questioned the authenticity of the work. The school has fought the subpoena, arguing it has already turned over relevant material pertaining to the case. Medill professor David Protess said, "Prosecutors should be more concerned with the wrongful conviction of Anthony McKinney than with my students' grades." The judge may decide in today's hearing whether or not the Project has to comply with the subpoena. We'll update as we get more information. In the meantime, the Tribune has a nice write-up including more background of the Project and its involvement in the McKinney case.
Update: According to one person attending the hearing, no oral arguments were heard and a new hearing date of January 11, 2010 has been set.
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Sounds like the County Prosecutors want to cover their own asses by finding faults in the Medill process.
Justice will prevail and I hope the Prosecutors are fired and or do time.
I hope all you liberals that supported Alvarez now realize that she's worse than any of the others that ran!
You would think that someone would have told her that this could & probably will backfire on her.
All she had to do was see what happened to DC mayor Fenty & its idiotic appeal to the Supreme Court of their gun ban. He was told not to appeal by most lawyers, but refused to listen. Every place but Chicago & NYC has realized they have nothing to stand on & will lose their case in February at the SC!