Alstory Simon’s lawsuit against Northwestern and former Medill Prof. David Protess is allowed to proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
In the suit, filed in February 2014, Simon alleges NU, his...
Author William Crawford discussed his book’s exploration into the accusation that the director of the former Medill Innocence Project falsified evidence in a criminal investigation at an event hosted...
Willie Donald, a former client of the Medill Innocence Project, was released from prison Thursday morning after his 1992 conviction for robbery and murder was overturned.
Donald, 47, was sentenced to...
The Cook County state's attorney vacated the double-murder conviction of Alstory Simon on Thursday, raising questions about an investigation assisted by former Medill Prof. David Protess.
Protess...
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the vice president of the Chicago Innocence Project and the man at the center of one of the most famous wrongful conviction cases in the U.S., died Sunday from prostate cancer.
Carter...
