Getting Mired in Details

Cook County prosecutors persist in ignoring the question of whether Anthony McKinney killed a Harvey security guard in 1978, or someone else did. Instead they would rather put public funds working to discredit the efforts of Protess and the students. Why the courts haven’t put a stop to this witchhunt is beyond belief.

Attorney withdraws in Northwestern’s battle with prosecutors

and, here is the background to this whole controversy which started with Anita Alvarez:

The Professor and the Prosecutor:
Anita Alvarez’s office turns up the heat on David Protess’s Medill Innocence Project