tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8567331997161233856.post2217683223611532980..comments2022-01-14T13:36:49.602-08:00Comments on TreadMark: The Curious Case of Anita Alvarez and the Medill Innocence Project StudentsMark Melickianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304881613660867050noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8567331997161233856.post-63719448673269595602009-11-13T01:39:13.577-08:002009-11-13T01:39:13.577-08:00It's interesting to me that you concentrate on...It's interesting to me that you concentrate on this issue of the grades being requested when I believe the State only request the grade from specific students for one specific semester for one specific class. <br /><br />I think the far more troubling issue is the evidence that the students may have paid off drug addicted witnesses to fabricate exculpatory statements concerning the man/men they are seeking to exonerate. Based upon what I have read, it sure sounds to me that, in some cases, Professor Protess and some of his students formulated their theory that inmate so and so was innocent and then they worked backward to concoct facts to support that theory. Why are they reluctant to turn over all of their investigative material?<br /><br />It is certainly a travesty when anyone spends even a minute behind bars for a crime that he or she did not commit but coming in at a close second is a guilty man getting sprung from jail based upon bogus and false information cooked up by some over zealous and ambitious student and his book selling professor.<br /><br />Doesn't State's Attorney Alvarez has a duty to look into this fully? While some of these students see this as their class project, I think the prosecutors need to see this as their job. I hope they look into it thoroughly and completely to make sure a miscarriage of justice does not occur.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05411953999839970534noreply@blogger.com