Criminal
Oct. 13, 2012
Professor, public defender duo add twist to Prop. 34 debate
The team is touring the country and challenging peoples' convictions by holding a mock death penalty trial of a famous defendant. By Maurice Possley
In 2008, not long after leaving the Chicago Tribune to work for the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University Law School, I met one of my new neighbors, Tom Rotert, an attorney who asked about my reporting on wrongful convictions and wrongful executions.
I explained that while at the newspaper, reporter Steve Mills and I had documented numerous wrongful convictions in Illinois and the executions of two innocent m...
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