Medill Innocence Project

Willful Ignorance In Texas Execution?

Radley Balko | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Texas, Hank Skinner, Dna Testing, Hank Skinner Texas, Death Penalty Debate, Texas Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Rick Perry Death Penalty, Medill Innocence Project, Innocence, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Politics News

A week from today, Texas death row inmate Henry "Hank" Skinner is scheduled to be executed for the 1995 murders of Twila Busby and her two adult sons....

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Keeping You Posted: Is Texas About to Kill an Innocent Man? Also, the Subpoena That Keeps on Giving

David Protess | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Hank Skinner, DNA Tests, Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty, The Reader, Casey Anthony, Rick Perry, Anita Alvarez, Michael Miner, Medill Innocence Project, Chicago News

Even if Perry intervenes simply to prevent Hank Skinner's death from becoming a campaign issue, the most he can do under Texas law at this point is grant a 30-day reprieve.

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Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Murder Released After 21 Years In Prison

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Jacques Rivera Released, Wrongful Convictions, Video, Illinois Wrongful Convictions, David Protess, Jacques Rivera Conviction, Chicago Innocence Project, Medill Innocence Project, Jacques Rivera, Innocence Project, Northwestern Center on Wrongful Convictions, Chicago News

A Chicago man convicted in 1988 of killing a gang member and sentenced to 80 years in prison was released Tuesday after the purported crime's only eye...

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How F***** Up Is This?

David Protess | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Illinois Wrongful Convictions, Medill School of Journalism, Cook County Prosecutor, Wrongful Conviction, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Armando Serrano, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Chicago News

Anthony McKinney and Armando Serrano are serving long prison terms for murder. Both were wrongfully convicted. And Cook Co. prosecutors have turned their fight for freedom into a bizarre sideshow.

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Judge: Student Journalists' Emails Must Be Shared

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Illinois Reporter's Privilege Act, David Protess Northwestern, David Protess, Chicago Innocence Project, Northwestern University, Media Ethics, Medill Innocence Project, Innocence Project, Journalism, Anita Alvarez, Investigative Reporting, Donald Lundahl, Chicago News

A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that Northwestern University must turn over some 500 e-mails that student journalists at the school exchanged with...

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Head Of Medill Innocence Project Retiring From Northwestern Amid Investigations

AP | By SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: David Protess Northwestern, Chicago, David Protess Innocence Project, David Protess, Chicago Innocence Project, Illinois, Medill Innocence Project, David Protess Retiring, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- A renowned Northwestern University journalism professor whose students helped free wrongfully convicted prison inmates but whose methods ha...

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When Did Convicting the Guilty Become More Important Than Exonerating the Innocent?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exoneration, Hank Skinner, Douglas Warney, Henry Skinner, Anthony McKinney, Dna, Prof. David Protess, Medill Innocence Project, Medill Innocence Project Mckinney, Compensation Wrongfully Convicted, Politics News

To foreclose evidence that might prove innocence is not in keeping with the duty of prosecutors. The same vigor that goes into convicting the guilty should be exerted in exonerating the innocent.

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Is the Supreme Court Going "Soft on Crime"?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exoneration, Hank Skinner, Dna Testing, Soft on Crime, Death Penalty, Medill Innocence Project, Post-Conviction Relief, Anthong McKinney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

The Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Hank Skinner that he has the right to pursue DNA testing under federal civil rights laws. This case was a no-brainer to begin with, why did it go all the way to the Supreme Court?

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Is It Time to Execute the Death Penalty?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Loughner, Costs of Death Penalty, Executions, Barry Scheck, Gov. Quinn, Death Penalty, Medill Innocence Project, Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases, Illinois Death Penalty, Morality of Death Penalty, Exonerations, Deterrence, Chicago News

The arguments for and against have raged for years, but the discussion is relevant now more than ever because Governor Pat Quinn has it within his power to end the death penalty in Illinois.

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Medill Innocence Project Accused Of Bad Ethics

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Protess, Medill School of Journalism, Medill Innocence Project, Chicago, Illinois, Innocence Project, Innocence Project Ethics Probe, Northwestern University, Chicago News

A project designed to expose and fix the errors of the justice system stands accused of committing a few errors itself. Prosecutors allege that the M...

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Can This Be Happening in America- A Prosecutor Investigating the Motives of Student Journalists Seeking to Free a Man They Believe to be Innocent?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Investigation of Student Journalists, Medill Innocence Project, Cook County Prosecutor, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Politics News

The Medill Innocence Project of Northwestern University spent 3 years investigating the conviction of Anthony McKinney who was convicted of murder 31 ...

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A Riddle: Who Saves Lives But Is Not a Doctor?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Henry Skinner, Medill Innocence Project, Wrongly Convicted, David Protess, Criminal Justice System, College News

It is difficult for any of us to imagine what it must be like to be convicted, though innocent, and possibly face the death penalty, and then learn there are college kids eager to help in the battle.

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Texas and Gov. Perry Apparently Indifferent to the Execution of a Possibly Innocent Man

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dna Testing, Hank Skinner, Gov.Perry, Texas Courts, Execution, Triple Homicide, Death Penalty, Medill Innocence Project, Politics News

The State of Texas has taken the phrase: "Better that 100 (or 10) men go free than one innocent person be convicted" and turned it on its head.

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Medill's Protess On Subpoena: 'No Circumstances Under Which I Will Reveal My Students Grades'

The Daily Northwestern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Privacy Rights, Anthony McKinney, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, David Protess, Chicago News

In October, the Illinois state's attorney's office sparked controversy when it subpoenaed materials, documents and e-mails regarding the Anthony McKin...

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Prosecutors Subpoena Notes, Grade Information Of Northwestern Journalism Students

Chicago Tribune | Jeff Long | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, David Protess, Wrongful Conviction, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Press Freedom, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Journalism, Chicago News

After spending three years investigating the conviction of a Harvey man accused of killing a security guard with a shotgun blast in 1978, journalism s...

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Prosecutors Still Won't Explain Student Subpoenas

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Protess, Medill School of Journalism, Medill Innocence Project, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Anita Alvarez, Anthony McKinney, Northwestern University, Wrongful Conviction, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 197...

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Cook County Prosecutor Continues to Investigate Students for Trying to Free an Innocent Man

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Medill Innocence Project, Cook County Prosecutor, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Death Penalty Moratorium, Journalism, Chicago News

Cook County prosecutors continue their relentless attempt to discredit the work of the students of the Medill Innocence Project in their efforts to exonerate Anthony McKinney.

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Medill Innocence Project Battle Intensifies: Anita Alvarez, Cook County DA, Presses Case

Chicago Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cook County Court, Cook County DA, Chicago, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Cook County, Northwestern, Anita Alvarez, Chicago News

In their own ways, they have risen to stardom on a stage built from misery, two battlers who grapple with questions of life-and-death justice: Anita A...

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Prosecutor Defends Going After Northwestern Students' Notes, Class Material

Chicago Tribune | Daarel Burnette II | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Anthony McKinney, Dan Kirk, Journalism, David Protess, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Press Freedom, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Anita Alvarez, Chicago News

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez defended subpoenaing Northwestern University journalism students' notes and recordings of witness interview...

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Prosecutors: Northwestern Journalism Student Paid Witness

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Evan Benn, Tony Drakes, David Protess, Medill School of Journalism, Wrongful Conviction, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Anita Alvarez, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Prosecutors claimed in court Tuesday that Northwestern University journalism students paid two witnesses in order to make their case t...

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