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The Professor and the Prosecutor

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a lengthy article in the February edition of Chicago magazine written by Bryan Smith.  It's subtitled, "Anita Alvarez?s office turns up the heat on David Protess?s Medill Innocence Project."Here's a small excerpt from the beginning:In their own ways, they have risen to stardom on a stage built from misery, two battlers who grapple with questions of life-and-death justice: Anita Alvarez, a Chicago native and career prosecutor with working-class roots, who dramatically emerged from a pack of formidable opponents to become the first woman and first person of Hispanic descent to hold the top job in the second-largest prosecutor?s office in the nation; and the Northwestern University professor David Protess, a crusader against wrongful convictions who has guided his students to find fresh evidence that helped free five people from death row and sprang six others from imprisonment for murders they did not commit?putting prosecutors on the defensive with each notch in his belt...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).