Innocence Project professor pulled from class

[joeybee12]

EVANSTON, Ill. – A Northwestern University journalism professor whose students are credited with helping to free more than 10 innocent men from prison — including death row — has been pulled from the class that made him famous amid allegations of ethics violations.

David Protess told the Chicago Tribune he was notified by email this week that he wouldn't be teaching the investigative journalism course for the upcoming quarter.

He will continue as director of the Medill Innocence Project, but he said he doesn't know whether the project will continue to be affiliated with the class. Investigative journalism students usually conduct the project's investigations.

Protess and his investigative reporting students have helped free more than 10 innocent men from prison, including death row, since 1996. Their work also is credited with prompting then-Gov. George Ryan to empty the state's death row in 2003, re-igniting a national debate on the death penalty and leading to the end of capital punishment in Illinois.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wrongful_conviction_grades

It's payback time, apparently.

[madrchsod]

1. yup ,it`s payback time in cook county...

exposing wrong doing in the cook county court system buys one big time trouble.

[Riftaxe]

2. When the defense lawyer drops you,

perhaps it means there might be fire under this smoke.