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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Marcel Brown (far left) reunites with his family after 10 years in jail. The state overturned Brown’s previous murder charges on July 18 with help from the Center on Wrongful Convictions.

NU Center of Wrongful Convictions helps exonerate client Marcel Brown

July 31, 2018

After spending 10 years in prison, Chicago-native Marcel Brown walked out of prison on July 18 after the state of Illinois dropped his murder charges due to help from the Pritzker School of Law Center...

Center on Wrongful Convictions co-director Jane Raley remembered for passion for justice

January 6, 2015

Over the course of her 14 years as co-director of Northwestern School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, Jane Raley was not only known for her talent as an attorney and professor, but for her...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (left) speaks to Rob Warden (far right) at the August signing of a bill aimed at preventing wrongful convictions. Warden will resign his post as the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions next summer after 15 years at the helm.

Rob Warden to leave Center on Wrongful Convictions next summer

September 19, 2013

Rob Warden will retire as director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions in August 2014, Northwestern School of Law Dean Daniel Rodriguez announced earlier this month. Warden co-founded the clinic,...

NU's Center on Wrongful Convictions is petitioning to free Daniel Taylor, who was convicted of double homicide in 1992. Police records and new documents show Taylor was in police custody during the crime.

Center on Wrongful Convictions claims prisoner in police custody during his crime

February 5, 2013

Northwestern’s Center on Wrongful Convictions is seeking to free a man who has been in prison for the last two decades for double murder, arguing he could not have committed the crime because he was...

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